PowerShell script to API-Change all Nutanix password

When doploying a new environment (or when running an environment for years already ;)) you always need to change the password from the default or from something else to something else 😉 (When they expire). I’ve created a nice PowerShell script that will do this automatically for you or you…

Nutanix Multicluster Virtual Switch Management

In the 7.3 release of Prism Central there is “Multicluster Virtual Switch Management” added. Release Notes. The documentation states: The virtual switch created in a Prism Element cluster during the AHV installation process is a single-cluster default virtual switch. You can also create a non-default virtual switch in the Prism…

Nutanix Cluster Profiles

From Prism Central 2024.3 and higher we have a nice feature named “Cluster Profiles”. With this feature we can easily set a couple of settings across all connected cluster in Prism Central. Here is the list (for the moment): I hope more and more settings will come into the list…

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…

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.

Nutanix Cluster Expansion on ESX

I needed to expand a cluster running Nutanix on ESX. There is a cluster expansion guide available from Nutanix which can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v6_7:wc-cluster-expand-wc-r.html But I want to show the steps involved doing this. 😉 After racking and stacking the new nodes make sure they are connected to switch…

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.…

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