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During my consultancy journey at different companies I have seen many different setups for Nutanix Micro segmentation (Flow). With Flow you can create security policies to secure network traffic between virtual machines (and outside the cluster) without relying on traditional network firewalls. This is often called east-west firewalling. In this…
In this blogpost I will show you how to deploy Nutanix Central on-premises. This will allow you to manage multiple Prism Central’s from one single pane of glass. Nutanix Central (v1.7.1) release notes can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Release-Notes-Nutanix-Central-Onprem-v1_7_1:Release-Notes-Nutanix-Central-Onprem-v1_7_1 The complete admin guide can be found here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/list?type=software&filterKey=software&filterVal=Nutanix%20Central Prism Central Requirements…
When deploying a Nutanix cluster and looking into all configuration settings you have probably seen the “Reserve Rebuild Capacity” option. In this blogpost I will explain what it is and how it works. You can find this option in Prism Element –> Settings –> Rebuild Capacity Reservation. The default setting…
In Prism Central 7.5 Nutanix has added “Guest Customization Profiles”. With this nice feature we can create unattended installs for Windows (current only Windows). In Windows we have two (2) types of unattended installations: Before we continue we need to know the requirements: (link) So to continue we first need…
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…
In this blog post I will demonstrate how-to setup HYCU to use categories configured in Prism Central. VM’s attached to the category will automatically being back upped according to the HYCU policy. Please make sure a default HYCU policy is not configured as this will already attach a HYCU policy…
Ever wondering which virtual machines are using snapshots and how much space they are taking? Of course you use my superduper powershell script to clean them up: link 😉 But in Prism Central we can easily create an overview with the latest status on the snapshots. Login to Prism Central…
Nutanix has released AOS 6.8 (Link) and Prism Central 2024.1(Link). With this new release there is a new option to deploy a “X-Small” Prism Central instance. This small deployment is for the following environments: As you can see in the screenshot the resources required are way less the small deployment,…
This post provides a guide on setting up Prism Central (2023.4) to integrate with Microsoft Entra ID (Azure AD) for Single Sign-On (SSO) using SAML. It outlines the steps to configure SAML authentication by downloading metadata from Prism Central, creating a custom application in Microsoft Entra, assigning users or groups,…
UPDATE FEBRUARI 2024 Looks like Microsoft Edge has blocked/removed this workaround. It is still working in Google Chrome. I getting emails, calls, teams, slack etc etc etc about that they cant access Prism anymore. I even had an email from someone to their internal management saying Nutanix is bad because…
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…
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.…
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