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Tags from VMware vSphere to Nutanix Categories

In a previous post i created a workflow to migrate System Center Virtual Machine Manager CustomAttributes to Nutanix Categories and values. I received a request to write this for VMware vSphare Tags as well. So here is a updated workflow to migrate your VMware vSphare Tags to Nutanix Categories and

CustomAttributes from Hyper-V to Nutanix Categories

Update: Uppon request from fellow NTC colleuge, i made a version of this script for VMware vSphare tags also. Take a look this post for more information about that. Recently, I received a request asking if I had encountered a customer using Custom Attributes on their VMs in Hyper-V and

Moving EFI partition before C:

So a coupple of months ago we activated UEFI boot on our Templates in our Nutanix Environment to be able to benefit from Secure Boot and vTPM witch was newly introduced to the Nutanix platform, and as a step to enable UEFI boot we need to convert the disks to

Move 5.0.0 released

Today Nutanix announced the release of Move 5.0.0. Looks like a intressting release. Some of the highlights: * Move now supports the migration of files from external file servers to Nutanix file servers. For full list of new features and buggfixes, se following Release notes on portal. Nutanix Support

Getting all your VMs with Affinity rules

So! Today i wanted to list all the VMs in our cluster that had any host affinity rules.  So, just for future reference here is a oneliner that you can run from any PC CVM First we take a look at the nuclei command vm_host_affinity_legacy_policy.list

LCM Issues after update to PC 2023.1.0.1

So we're finaly getting of the buggy 2022.9 release for Prism Central. But after the update to 2023.1.0.1 we had som issues with LCM and running the LCM Inventory. A fellow NTC pushed me towards this KB: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=

AHV

Create all VLANs from one cluster to a New Cluster

I'am on the train traveling from my home town to Stockhom here in sweden to attend Nutanix Cloud Day tomorrow.  I got some spare time on the train, and figured i would use it to the best. Currently we're in the process of setting up our third nutanix cluster in

CVM Out of memory

Hi! So today we received an alert that one of our CVMs where unresponsive. First thing i did was to se if i could ping it from another CVM. Witch we could not do. So off to Prism Elements interface to have a look if the CVM was powered on.

Nutanix Move Offline Repo Updated to 4.7.0

So for you guys who have read my post about my Nutanix Move offline repo for migration scenarios where you cant have the Guest VM who is up for migration have https access to the Move VM to run the powershell script who is responsible for preparation of the VMs,

Nutanix

Upgrading Prism Central to 2022.9 (CMSP)

Okay, so last week i updated my Prism Central instance to 2022.9 and i thought that i would write some lessons i learned around this update since Nutanix forced us to change the PC deployment mode to use the Micro Services Pattform. Okay. So first, i encountered a small

Nutanix

Nutanix Technology Champion 2023

It's been a while since i wrote on the blog. It has been crazy lately. So i figured that i'll kick off 2023 with this blogpost. Back i December i was renewed Nutanix Technology Champion for the third year in a row. I'm really really honoured to be named a

Installing Outline Wiki with docker-compose on ubuntu 22.04

I was looking for a nice confluence like wiki open source software that i could host on my own servers. The need for personal documentation/wiki software arose when i came in to the facinating world of home automation. I found Outline witch is available both as paid software if

Nutanix

Migrating from Proxmox KVM to Nutanix AHV

During the summer we sold a cluster to a happy customer. In the project scope we had to migrate all the VMs from Proxmox (KVM) to Nutanix AHV. To solve the problem we decided to use the built in disk clone software DD. First we need to whitelist the old

Nutanix

Migration of VMs from Hyper-V to Nutanix using Veeam, experiences and tips.

This weekend we had a migration of a public customer. The competitor did not provide us with host access to the Hyper-V hosts of obvious reasons. So the migration point of attack was using Veeam. We did setup a VPN towards the environment and installed the Veeam agent on each

Microsoft

Changeing the name of the Connection Broaker

A couple of weeks back, i had to change the name of a Connection Broaker service due to external certificate change. Not much documentation was found online so i’ll provide the commands in powershell/wmi that was needed to fix it. wmi -Class "Win32_RDMSDeploymentSettings" -Namespace "root\CIMV2\rdms"

Nutanix

NTC 2022

Today Nutanix announced the NTC 2022 list. Honoured to see that i was in the list for yet another year. Looking forward to continue to give back to the community and to share and receive knowledge with my peers. To view the full list of NTCs for 2022 visit the

Nutanix

The Grass Is Greener on the Other Side: One Champion’s Quest to Ease IT Infrastructure Management

For years, IT professionals have dealt with the same old problem: What is the best way to manage a complex environment? Traditionally, companies would need to invest significantly in human resources. They would require a server team, a storage team, and a network team to get it all done. Requiring

Nutanix

Windows Server 2022 on AHV

Just read about Windows Server 2022 from Microsoft was GA yesterday at September the 1st. So i tough, hey, lets test it on AHV and Nutanix. In this post, i will install the virtual machine on AHV, then Create a Template VM from it for future cloning. NOTES AND CAUTION:

Nutanix

Nutanix P2V using VMware Converter

Background: We have a customer witch is going to move from a competitors datacenter. The competitor does not allow us to gain access to their Hyper-V hosts management network (Understandable) so the use of Nutanix Move is not an option here. Also, the customer would like as little downtime on

Nutanix

Nutanix Move – Offline / Public Repo with non VM-To-Move Network access.

Over the a couple of days we have been migrating some vm:s from a customers onprem vSphere 6.5 environment to Nutanix AHV. And we’ve run in to some issues. EDIT 2023-02-06: I have publiced a Nutanix Move Repo on Git for you to just clone. Se this

Microsoft

Resizeing User Profile Disk UPD VHDX file without Hyper-V tools

Hi! Today i faced an issue. We have a customer with a server running as a Remote Desktop Session Host. The customer has leveraged User Profile Disks for their RDS User profiles. We ran in to errors saying that the disk space was running low. Even tough the C: had

Nutanix

Increasing CVM RAM

A couple of weeks back we did a cluster expansion. The cluster expansion process succeeded without any issues. The first block containing four nodes was during cluster formation configured with 20 GB of CVM RAM. The new CVM was configured to the by support recommended value of 32 GB of