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Deploying Nutanix Central On-Premises

In this blogpost I will show you how to deploy Nutanix Central on-premises. This will allow you to manage multiple Prism Central’s from one single pane of glass. Nutanix Central (v1.7.1) release notes can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Release-Notes-Nutanix-Central-Onprem-v1_7_1:Release-Notes-Nutanix-Central-Onprem-v1_7_1 The complete admin guide can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/list?type=software&filterKey=software&filterVal=Nutanix%20Central Prism Central Requirements…

Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV with Golden Image creation

Update 23-01-2026: Cleanup process updated and some typo’s corrected.Update 20-01-2026: Added a correct, working, update mechanism. 😉 In this blogpost I will describe how to connect Omnissa Horizon against a Nutanix AHV cluster and how to setup the golden image. We are going for an RDS setup because we can…

Reserve Rebuild Capacity – Turn it On or Off?

When deploying a Nutanix cluster and looking into all configuration settings you have probably seen the “Reserve Rebuild Capacity” option. In this blogpost I will explain what it is and how it works. You can find this option in Prism Element –> Settings –> Rebuild Capacity Reservation. The default setting…

Nutanix Guest Customization Profiles

In Prism Central 7.5 Nutanix has added “Guest Customization Profiles”. With this nice feature we can create unattended installs for Windows (current only Windows). In Windows we have two (2) types of unattended installations: Before we continue we need to know the requirements: (link) So to continue we first need…

Nutanix Technology Champion 2026, Blog Stats and Lab Update

Last weeks of the year already and I want to share some things with you readers. NTC 2026: First start with that I’m honored to become a Nutanix Technology Champion for the year 2026. This is my fifth consecutive year as an NTC and really is a reward for me…

Nutanix Files Synchronous Data Protection

Hi All, dont you just love the Nutanix Synchronous data replication? So we can achieve a RPO0 (Zero) configuration and even do Cluster to Cluster Live migration. Now with the Nutanix Files 5.2 release we can do this even with Nutanix Files. (Release Notes) In this blogpost I will write…

Nutanix Multicluster Virtual Switch Management

In the 7.3 release of Prism Central there is “Multicluster Virtual Switch Management” added. Release Notes. The documentation states: The virtual switch created in a Prism Element cluster during the AHV installation process is a single-cluster default virtual switch. You can also create a non-default virtual switch in the Prism…

Automatic update Golden Images with Nutanix X-Play

In Nutanix Prism Central we have the feature named X-Play. You have seen more on this topic om my blog so here is another one 😉 In my training’s lab students are connecting to a terminal server. Updating the applications and Windows in the Golden Image is a monthly job.…

Lab Switching Update

As you probably know I have one of the coolest Nutanix labs in the world 😉 (Including 4 nodes with Nvidia GPU). Look at those babies: And they are for rent as wel, more info here: https://www.tielenconsultancy.nl/nutanix-cluster-rental/ This week I got myself a lovely set of two (2) Mellanox SN2010…

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