For work I do travel a lot to customers but I do also work a lot from home. This means I need to have a powerful laptop to be able to run: The need to run Community Edition (I use this to showcase some features within the Nutanix stack) is…
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.…
Upgrading Windows machine from BIOS to UEFI on Nutanix AHV (and IDE to SCSI/SATA)
In this blogpost I will show you how to upgrade a Windows 10 virtual machine running legacy BIOS to UEFI, and so making it ready to upgrade to Windows 11. First of all let me show you the current setup of the virtual machine: A lovely Windows 10 virtual machine…
Getting started with Parallels RAS and Nutanix AHV
In this blogpost I will demonstrate how to configure Parallels RAS to use Nutanix AHV as a provider, and how to do image management and deploy VDI desktops via Parallels RAS on Nutanix AHV. I will not cover how-to install the Parallels Remote Application Server (For Citrix readers the Delivery…
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…
Nutanix Cluster Profiles
From Prism Central 2024.3 and higher we have a nice feature named “Cluster Profiles”. With this feature we can easily set a couple of settings across all connected cluster in Prism Central. Here is the list (for the moment): I hope more and more settings will come into the list…