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Change Nutanix Community Edition CVM Memory

Blogpost is updated for CE2.1 This little blogpost will explain how-to change the CVM memory size in Nutanix Community Edition. I assume you are here because you got an error similar to this: As you can see the CVM has to much memory assigned and can’t start on the node.…

Running Nutanix on OVHcloud

I had the opportunity the play with 2 Nutanix clusters on OVHcloud. In this blogpost I will explain how to set it up and how to do a migration from your on-premises environment to Nutanix on OVHcloud (Migrate to the cloud).

Replace Nutanix SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt certificate

Here’s a powershell script to generate a Let’s Encrypt certificate and upload that certificate to your Nutanix cluster and/or Prism Central. I want my clusters to be available via: The tielenconsultancy.nl domain is avaiable on the internet and internal. The clusters aren’t available via the internet offcourse 😉 So this…

Change Nutanix Files Standard Share to Distributed Share

In this blog post I will show you how to change a Nutanix Files standard share to a distributed share. The differences between these types of shares is explaned here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LMXuCAO In my scenario I have configured FSLogix profiles on the standard share \\Files\FSlogix. This share holds arround 240GiB of…

Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on VMware Workstation

I’m running my Nutanix CE lab on dedicated hardware, but you can also install it virtual in VMware Workstation (for example). In this blog I will explain how to do this. Before we continue there are some requirements: Make clear if you want a 1 node or 3 node cluster;…

FSLogix Shrink Event Logs

Microsoft released a new version of FSLogix (Build 2.9.8361.52326) which has the following in the release notes: Feature: Added the ability to compact the user’s container during the sign-out phase. More info can be read in the Release Notes Now when this all is in place and working, the events…

Nutanix on ESX, howto setup the network stack

Offcourse I encourage customers to use AHV when using Nutanix, but sometimes customers are stuck using VMWare due to specific requirements or others reasons. Setting up Nutanix on AHV is pretty straightforward but on VMWare it is a bit different. In this blog I will show you how to setup…

Create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix

This simple blog post will show you how to create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix. (Focussing only on the witness disk). There are some blogposts available already: https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/microsoft-failover-cluster-msft-on-nutanix-38573 https://www.vmwaremine.com/2015/09/04/deploy-microsoft-failover-cluster-on-nutanix/ But not one is showing the real steps for the witness disk. So I decided to share this with you.…

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