Lab Switching Update

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…

Nutanix Cluster Profiles

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…

Creating and Maintaining a Template Virtual Machine in Nutanix

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…

Nutanix Cluster Expansion

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…

Migrate Physical Machine (Linux) To Nutanix AHV

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…

Adding extra disk to Nutanix Community Edition

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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