Nutanix CE Tips and Tricks

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Nutanix Network Segmentation

Within a default next next finish installation of a Nutanix cluster all physical interfaces are member of virtual switch 0 (vs0). First thing we do is remove the wrong interfaces from the vs0 and create a separate virtual switch (vs1) with the interfaces which are removed from vs0. Nutanix AHV…

Nutanix Approval Policies

I got this question a lot during my trainings so hereby an explanation what “Approval Policies” are and howto configure them. Lets start with the easy question: What are approval policies? With APs we can protect recovery points from deletion. At lease three administrators (or more) must approve each deletion.…

Nutanix .Next 2026 Chicago

Beginning April this year, I attended the Nutanix .Next event in Chicago (sorry for the late posting of this blogpost, as a one-men-company, I’m terrible busy at the moment). This is the annual global event where Nutanix is announcing all the cool new stuff which is coming. This is also…

Citrix MCS against Nutanix Prism Central

Citrix has added support for Nutanix Prism Central in version 2507 CU1. This means when setting up a host connection you can attach it to Prism Central instead of Prism Element. Meaning you don’t have to connect each cluster separate but only the Prism Central which manage all the clusters…

“Best Practices” Nutanix Microsegmentation (Flow)

During my consultancy journey at different companies I have seen many different setups for Nutanix Micro segmentation (Flow). With Flow you can create security policies to secure network traffic between virtual machines (and outside the cluster) without relying on traditional network firewalls. This is often called east-west firewalling. In this…

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…

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