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In this blogpost I will show you how to upgrade a Windows 10 virtual machine running legacy BIOS to UEFI, and so making it ready to upgrade to Windows 11. First of all let me show you the current setup of the virtual machine: A lovely Windows 10 virtual machine…
In this blogpost I will demonstrate how to configure Parallels RAS to use Nutanix AHV as a provider, and how to do image management and deploy VDI desktops via Parallels RAS on Nutanix AHV. I will not cover how-to install the Parallels Remote Application Server (For Citrix readers the Delivery…
As you probably know I have one of the coolest Nutanix labs in the world 😉 (Including 4 nodes with Nvidia GPU). Look at those babies: And they are for rent as wel, more info here: https://www.tielenconsultancy.nl/nutanix-cluster-rental/ This week I got myself a lovely set of two (2) Mellanox SN2010…
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…
Hi reader, and welcome in part 3 of the FNS series. In this blogpost I will show you how to create a Virtual Private Cloud with overlay network and a Load Balancer in FNS. My used lab is the same as in part 2 but I have added a couple…
In part 1 I showed you how to create Security Policies with Microsegmentation (flow) on your cluster(s). This blogpost will describe some more information about the versions and how to upgrade the specific components. In my lab I’m running AOS 7.0.1 and Prism Central 2024.3.1. The network controller and Micro…
Blogpost updated on April 9th 2025. Trying to get some confusion out of the way for those administrators coming from VMware 😉 In this blog post I will show you how to create a Windows Server template and how to maintain it. Templates are virtual machines to be used to…
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…
In my previous blogpost I showed you how easy it is to migrate a physical Windows machine to Nutanix AHV (Link). I got a couple of questions about Linux 😉 Now lets do the same again but with a Linux machine. I got myself a freshly install Ubuntu desktop as…
In this blogpost we will explain how to do a physical to virtual conversion from a server/desktop to Nutanix.
When installing the Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) in your virtual Machines you are doing this for 1 of the following reasons: When one (or more) applies then you will install the NGT. But there is some extra support/maintenance you need to do when installing the tool. For example, you need…
In this post I will describe how-to add an extra data disk to a single node Nutanix Community Edition (CE) cluster. Before we start I want to point out that more then 4 disks is not within the requirements for CE. See: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_1:top-sysreqs-ce-r.html (Boot drive is not counted within those…
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