The following blog post will cover the steps taken when I migrated a Hyper-V 2012 R2 VM running Windows Server 2008, called VM01 below, to Nutanix AHV version 20170830.115 and Nutanix AOS version 5.6. Yeah I know that Windows 2008 R2 is not the most modern OS but that was the constraint in this case …
This blog post will be an updated version of 2017 Nutanix Self Service Portal Part I – Preparation & Initial Configuration which was created before Calm got integrated in Prism Central which happened with the release of Prism Central and AOS 5.5. Follow the below steps to enable the Self Service and Apps (Calm) functionality in …
There are many ways to deploy your Nutanix Prism Central (PC) VM and this blog post will cover, in my opinion, the easiest one. Follow the below steps to deploy your PC from a Prism Element (PE) meaning an existing Nutanix Cluster. In my case it is an AHV based Nutanix cluster. Log in to …
Yesterday, 2018-05-03, Nutanix released a new version of its Long Term Supported (LTS) Release 5.5 family meaning the latest and greatest is now 5.5.2. Don’t mix this with the Short Term Supported (STS) version 5.6 release I blogged about here. In addition Prism Central 5.5.2 and AHV 20170830.120 were also released There are improvements in …
Yesterday, 2018-05-01, Nutanix released a new version of Prism Central (PC) meaning the latest and greatest version is now PC 5.7. This release is target for organisations using Calm since development focus for this release has been the Calm component. Two really great new features in this 5.7 are: Nutanix Calm supports GCP. Nutanix Calm …
Updated 2018-04-27: Updated Set new Nutanix Cluster Admin Password Updated 2018-01-18: Updated Directory Authentication section to match AOS 5.5 requirements. Updated 2017-09-06: Updated to include local PRISM users Updated 2017-05-31: Updated to include Network Visualization Updated 2017-05-31: Updated to include configure External Data Services IP address Updated 2017-05-31: Updated the section where a new container is created and …
This blog post will cover the quarantine VM functionality available in Nutanix Flow. This option can be very useful when a VM behaves in a way that it put itself and or other components at risk. Could be virus infected VM, hacked VM and so on. Quarantine configuration Verify quarantine functionality Quarantine Configuration Let’s start …
This is just a quick blog post about how to enable the microsegmentation functionality in the Nutanix Flow framework. Microsegmentation is managed via Prism Central so log in to Prism Central and: Click the Question mark on the right hand side Click New in Prism Central Click Microsegmentation In my case I only got one …
A while back I wrote a blog post about how to Change Nutanix Prism UI Login Screen and this quick tip will be about hos to adjust/change the Prism UI Contrast. This applies to both Prism Element (PE) and Prism Central (PC). Follow the procedure below to manage the Prism UI contrast. Log in to PE …
A few days ago Nutanix released a new version of their automated test framework and benchmark application X-Ray meaning the version is now 2.3. X-ray runs on both Nutanix AHV and VMware ESXi and requires Nutanix AOS 4.5 or later.. Version 2.3 brings quite a few enhancements to the table including e.g.: Customized virtual machine …
A question I have received quite a few times when Nutanix customers wants to add memory to their AHV hosts is how they can see the following: DIMM Size in use DIMM Locator in use DIMMs Bank Locator in use You can get some of this information from the out of band management interface (IPMI, …
A question I have received a few times is if AHV supports promiscuous mode or not. The easy answer is YES it does. However there is a huge difference in how promiscuous mode works for AHV compared to another well known hypervisor VMware ESXi. AHV uses Open vSwitch for network communication in most cases, there …
In October 2017 I wrote a blog post about Nutanix Xtract for Virtual Machines which provides almost no VM downtime during the migration from vSphere ESXi to Nutanix AHV. Now, 2018-01-30, version 1.1.2 has been released and it comes with a few enhancements which can/will make your even life easier when migrating VMs to Nutanix …