Nutanix Files Synchronous Data Protection

Hi All, dont you just love the Nutanix Synchronous data replication? So we can achieve a RPO0 (Zero) configuration and even do Cluster to Cluster Live migration. Now with the Nutanix Files 5.2 release we can do this even with Nutanix Files. (Release Notes) In this blogpost I will write…

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…

Install Nutanix Community Edition on Proxmox

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

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…

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,…

Running Nutanix on OVHcloud

I had the opportunity the play with 2 Nutanix clusters on OVHcloud. In this blogpost I will explain how to set it up and how to do a migration from your on-premises environment to Nutanix on OVHcloud (Migrate to the cloud).

Change Nutanix Files Standard Share to Distributed Share

In this blog post I will show you how to change a Nutanix Files standard share to a distributed share. The differences between these types of shares is explaned here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LMXuCAO In my scenario I have configured FSLogix profiles on the standard share \\Files\FSlogix. This share holds arround 240GiB of…

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