For work I do travel a lot to customers but I do also work a lot from home. This means I need to have a powerful laptop to be able to run: The need to run Community Edition (I use this to showcase some features within the Nutanix stack) is…
Nutanix Technology Champion 2026, Blog Stats and Lab Update
Last weeks of the year already and I want to share some things with you readers. NTC 2026: First start with that I’m honored to become a Nutanix Technology Champion for the year 2026. This is my fifth consecutive year as an NTC and really is a reward for me…
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…
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.
Install Nutanix Community Edition on Proxmox
In this blogpost we will describe howto install a Nutanix Community Edition node in a Proxmox environment.
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,…
Update Nutanix Community Edition To The Latest Versions (or STS)
This blogpost offers a guide on upgrading your Nutanix community edition cluster to the latest versions.
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.…
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;…
Running Nutanix Community Edition On An External Disk
My lab is (was) running a VMware ESX cluster which I wanted te change to Nutanix Community Edition (CE). One requirement to run Nutanix is at least 2 disks. My Intel NUCs are model NUC8i7BEK and only have space for 1 NVME disk. There is an extra SATA connector available…