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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 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…

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…

Nutanix .NEXT 2025, Award and Presentation

Hi all, it’s been a while since I’ve type a blog post due to massive workload at the moment (don’t get me wrong, I love my job ;)). But there was a lot happening in the last month. Let’s kick-off with the Nutanix .NEXT 2025 event in Washington last may.…

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