Hi reader, and welcome in part 3 of the FNS series. In this blogpost I will show you how to create a Virtual Private Cloud with overlay network and a Load Balancer in FNS. My used lab is the same as in part 2 but I have added a couple…
Getting Started with Flow Network Security Next-Gen – Part 2 – Upgrade the Controller(s)
In part 1 I showed you how to create Security Policies with Microsegmentation (flow) on your cluster(s). This blogpost will describe some more information about the versions and how to upgrade the specific components. In my lab I’m running AOS 7.0.1 and Prism Central 2024.3.1. The network controller and Micro…
Getting Started with Flow Network Security Next-Gen – Part 1 – Create Security Policies
In this blogpost series I will explain how-to setup and get running with Nutanix Flow Network Security Next-Gen (FNS). In this first part we will deploy and setup the environment and will create some Security Policies. The cluster being used is a single node NX-3060-G7 with the following versions: Some…
Join me at Nutanix .Next 2025 in Washinton DC
I’m thrilled to announce that I’ll be presenting at Nutanix .NEXT 2025 in Washington, D.C. this May! From May 7-9, 2025, thousands of global business and tech leaders will gather in the city of Washington, D.C. to explore the rapidly evolving hybrid multicloud landscape. This event promises to be a…
Creating and Maintaining a Template Virtual Machine in Nutanix
Blogpost updated on April 9th 2025. Trying to get some confusion out of the way for those administrators coming from VMware 
In this blog post I will show you how to create a Windows Server template and how to maintain it. Templates are virtual machines to be used to…
Nutanix Cluster Expansion
If you have a running cluster and need expansion to get more resources (storage, cpu, ram, etc) then you need to do a cluster expansion. Is this blogpost I will show you how to do this. First you can use Prism Central Cluster Runway to see the needed hardware for…
Migrate Physical Machine (Linux) To Nutanix AHV
In my previous blogpost I showed you how easy it is to migrate a physical Windows machine to Nutanix AHV (Link). I got a couple of questions about Linux Now lets do the same again but with a Linux machine. I got myself a freshly install Ubuntu desktop as…
Migrate Physical Machine (Windows) To Nutanix AHV
In this blogpost we will explain how to do a physical to virtual conversion from a server/desktop to Nutanix.
Renew Nutanix Guest Tools Certificate(s) Manual and/or Automatic
When installing the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) in your virtual Machines you are doing this for 1 of the following reasons: When one (or more) applies then you will install the NGT. But there is some extra support/maintenance you need to do when installing the tool. For example, you need…
Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on Microsoft Hyper-V
!!! WORK IN PROGRESS !!! In this blogpost I’m trying to get the latest Nutanix Community Edition (CE 2.1) installed nested in Microsoft Hyper-V (Windows 2019 version). Before we continue there are some requirements: The requirements for Nutanix CE are: (Link) There are some “rules”: Before we continue I assume…
Adding extra disk to Nutanix Community Edition
In this post I will describe how-to add an extra data disk to a single node Nutanix Community Edition (CE) cluster. Before we start I want to point out that more then 4 disks is not within the requirements for CE. See: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_1:top-sysreqs-ce-r.html (Boot drive is not counted within those…
Trying to get my oldest to the latest and running the latest 
In a previous blogpost I showed how-to repurpose old Nutanix hardware for a lab, by running Nutanix Community Edition on it. Now let’s try to do the same but with the latest Community Edition (2.1) and an even older cluster (NX-3060-G4) and try to update it to the latest versions…