Silent Installation Nutanix Community Edition

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…

“Best Practices” Nutanix Microsegmentation (Flow)

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…

Deploying Nutanix Central On-Premises

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…

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…

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…

Single Node Cluster with Replication Factor 2

The post describes setting up Replication Factor 2 on a single-node cluster running Community Edition. After installing CE on a VM with specific disk configurations, a new cluster is created with the desired redundancy factor. The post concludes with a positive impression of the results in Prism Element.

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,…

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