Nutanix Community Edition on 2 Disks

To install Nutanix Community Edition on a machine which only has 2 drives we always suggested to install AHV on a USB drive. In this blogpost I will describe how to install CE on a machine with 2 disks in total. So 1 disk will be the AHV disk and…

Silent Installation Nutanix Community Edition

🚀 Update – CEDeployer is now available! Good news! The manual process described in this article has now been largely automated. I recently launched CEDeployer (https://cedeployer.io), a tool that automates the deployment of Nutanix Community Edition using unattended installations. Instead of manually editing configuration files and repeating the same installation…

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…

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…

Nutanix Community Edition 2.1 Released – Create The Single Node Cluster

Nutanix Community Edition 2.1 is released. There is no more option to use ESXi as hypervisor and the automatic cluster creation is removed. Here is a blog post how to create the single node cluster.

Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on VMware ESXi/vSphere

This blog post explains how to install a three-node Nutanix cluster nested in VMware ESXi/vSphere. Requirements include IP addresses, memory, CPUs, and storage. Detailed steps on creating virtual machines, installing Nutanix CE, and checking cluster status are provided. Final instructions cover accessing and configuring the cluster. For a 1-node cluster,…

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.…

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