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…
Cleanup Nutanix Snapshots After # Amount Of Days
Quick blog post. The PowerShell script is self explaining 😉
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…
My Nutanix Guest Blog Posts
Hereby an overview from blog posts I created on the Nutanix site.
FSLogix Containers Cleanup Script
28 February 2024 : Script is updated with extra option to only delete Office cache container. When you have a share with FSLogix containers you probably want to keep this in sync with you active directory. Users who are deleted, inactive or disabled can still claim space on the file…
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.…
Citrix ADC / NetScaler IPv6 Black and Whitelist
In this blog post from begining 2020 I created a black and white list for IPv4. Here is an update to achieve the same but then for IPv6. If you dont have IPv6 running already read this post 😉 Note 1: The defaults are just for example and you need…
Enabling IPv6 on Citrix ADC and create simple IPv6 to IPv4 proxy
I’m seeing more and more IPv6 implementations in the wild. And even IPv6 only Citrix ADC gateways. I decided to write this blog post to get a head start how-to enable IPv6 and create a simple IPv6 load balancer (with IPv4 backend service) on the Citrix ADC. First we need…