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). Index: Pricing; The Network/Default Setup; Redeploy a Cluster; Move… Continue reading

Replace Nutanix SSL certificate with Let’s Encrypt certificate

Here’s a powershell script to generate a Let’s Encrypt certificate and upload that certificate to your Nutanix cluster and/or Prism Central. I want my clusters to be available via: The tielenconsultancy.nl domain is avaiable on the internet and internal. The clusters aren’t available via the internet offcourse 😉 So this… Continue reading

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… Continue reading

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;… Continue reading

Nutanix on ESX, howto setup the network stack

Offcourse I encourage customers to use AHV when using Nutanix, but sometimes customers are stuck using VMWare due to specific requirements or others reasons. Setting up Nutanix on AHV is pretty straightforward but on VMWare it is a bit different. In this blog I will show you how to setup… Continue reading

Create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix

This simple blog post will show you how to create a Microsoft Failover Cluster on Nutanix. (Focussing only on the witness disk). There are some blogposts available already: https://next.nutanix.com/installation-configuration-23/microsoft-failover-cluster-msft-on-nutanix-38573 https://www.vmwaremine.com/2015/09/04/deploy-microsoft-failover-cluster-on-nutanix/ But not one is showing the real steps for the witness disk. So I decided to share this with you…. Continue reading

Cleaning up VM SnapShots on Nutanix without breaking Citrix MCS

When you are running Citrix VADs on a Nutanix HCI environment you are one of the lucky ones having an awesome infrastructure. (Or when you are not happy about it give me a call/email, and I make sure you will be happy again). The only thing is all those snapshots… Continue reading