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…
PowerShell IPMI commands
We all know the little ipmitool or smcipmitool tools to script some commands against a node. But did you know there is a native PowerShell cmdlet you can use as well? On the Microsoft website we can find all the cmdlets we can use: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/pcsvdevice/?view=windowsserver2025-ps Lets create some PowerShell and…
Nutanix Community Edition != The Commercial Version
As you might know I’m a Nutanix NTC for a couple of years know. And I’m very active on the Nutanix forums. I’m helping people out installing Nutanix CE (Community Edition) virtual but also physically. During these sessions I always get the same comment: I’m writing this blog to make…
My trip to Silicon Valley
So I got some spare time during my Nutanix trip in San Jose. As San Jose is based in Silicon Valley my nerd hearth started beating and all those companies to visit 😉 Well lets start with some companies I visited: (Forgot to take a picture at the Apple sign…
My Two Days at Nutanix HQ: NTC Tech Connect
As a Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) we have some perks. One of them is to come over to the Nutanix HQ in San Jose (California) for the NTC Tech Connect days. During these days we are hearing from the product teams about the roadmaps and some in-depth information. This year…
HYCU Backups with Prism Central Categories
In this blog post I will demonstrate how-to setup HYCU to use categories configured in Prism Central. VM’s attached to the category will automatically being back upped according to the HYCU policy. Please make sure a default HYCU policy is not configured as this will already attach a HYCU policy…
Going Cloud-Only with my accounts
My company is using an on-premises active directory domain controller. Years ago we also had an Exchange server running. The mailboxes where already migrated to Exchange Online and the on-premises domain controller was only needed for managing the exchange attributes for the hybrid accounts (Yes, I was using dsa.msc and…
Get Snapshot sizes in Prism Central
Ever wondering which virtual machines are using snapshots and how much space they are taking? Of course you use my superduper powershell script to clean them up: link 😉 But in Prism Central we can easily create an overview with the latest status on the snapshots. Login to Prism Central…