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Silent Installation Nutanix Community Edition

Jeroen — Fri, 24 Jul 2026 14:23:09 +0000

In this blogpost I will show you how you can silent/unattended install Nutanix Community Edition. For all relevant links and info of Nutanix Community Edition I would like to link to my dedicated CE page: https://www.jeroentielen.nl/ce/ There are some requirements for the unattended installation: Lets start. Create your bootable USB stick with the latest version […]

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Nutanix Network Segmentation

Jeroen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 14:58:40 +0000

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 (Hypervisor) and AOS (CVM) must […]

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Nutanix Approval Policies

Jeroen — Thu, 25 Jun 2026 11:37:55 +0000

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. This is for Recovery Points […]

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Nutanix .Next 2026 Chicago

Jeroen — Sat, 30 May 2026 10:23:30 +0000

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 one of the events where […]

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Citrix MCS against Nutanix Prism Central

Jeroen — Tue, 12 May 2026 13:25:15 +0000

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 to deploy the workloads. Is […]

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Upgrading Citrix NetScaler VPX to the Nutanix AHV version

Jeroen — Tue, 24 Mar 2026 15:00:57 +0000

Citrix has released a Nutanix AHV version of the NetScaler. This runs on a Linux kernel while the older model was running on a BSD kernel. At the moment if you want to upgrade to the latest version you will see this message: So the traditional upgrade method will not work anymore and you need […]

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“Best Practices” Nutanix Microsegmentation (Flow)

Jeroen — Tue, 10 Mar 2026 07:30:00 +0000

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 blogpost I will give you […]

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Deploying Nutanix Central On-Premises

Jeroen — Sun, 22 Feb 2026 10:01:35 +0000

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 are: So that will cover […]

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Building the Ultimate Nutanix CE lab and Workstation (all-in-one)

Jeroen — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:36:26 +0000

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 becoming less important as I […]

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Omnissa Horizon on Nutanix AHV with Golden Image creation

Jeroen — Mon, 19 Jan 2026 20:35:07 +0000

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 😉 The steps involved are: […]

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Reserve Rebuild Capacity – Turn it On or Off?

Jeroen — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:59:43 +0000

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 is that it is turned […]

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Nutanix Guest Customization Profiles

Jeroen — Fri, 19 Dec 2025 14:46:27 +0000

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 to create a Windows template […]

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