edition Archives - Jeroen Tielen

Building the Ultimate Nutanix CE lab and Workstation (all-in-one)

Jeroen — Mon, 02 Feb 2026 19:36:26 +0000

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…

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Trying to get my oldest to the latest and running the latest 🫣

Jeroen — Fri, 08 Nov 2024 16:23:01 +0000

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…

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Nutanix Community Edition != The Commercial Version

Jeroen — Wed, 06 Nov 2024 09:30:03 +0000

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…

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Nutanix Community Edition 2.1 Released – Create The Single Node Cluster

Jeroen — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 17:58:37 +0000

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.

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Install Nutanix Community Edition on Proxmox

Jeroen — Thu, 08 Aug 2024 19:15:28 +0000

In this blogpost we will describe howto install a Nutanix Community Edition node in a Proxmox environment.

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Repurpose old Nutanix hardware

Jeroen — Thu, 04 Apr 2024 13:01:12 +0000

Revive old Nutanix clusters by installing Nutanix Community Edition. Document all node IP addresses and ensure proper switch connection. Use a bootable USB with MBR scheme or mount the CE installer ISO via IPMI. Select the correct disks matching the CE requirements and input the proper IP configurations during installation.

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Single Node Cluster with Replication Factor 2

Jeroen — Fri, 12 Jan 2024 08:23:37 +0000

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.

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

Jeroen — Thu, 04 Jan 2024 12:59:37 +0000

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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Update Nutanix Community Edition To The Latest Versions (or STS)

Jeroen — Wed, 03 Jan 2024 13:20:09 +0000

This blogpost offers a guide on upgrading your Nutanix community edition cluster to the latest versions.

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Change Nutanix Community Edition CVM Memory

Jeroen — Wed, 13 Sep 2023 08:46:30 +0000

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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Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on VMware Workstation

Jeroen — Mon, 27 Feb 2023 19:08:15 +0000

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;…

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Running Nutanix Community Edition On An External Disk

Jeroen — Fri, 24 Sep 2021 10:40:08 +0000

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…

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