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Windows Server 2025 on AHV

Last friday Microsoft released Windows Server 2025 as GA. The complete list of new features can be found here: What’s new in Windows Server 2025This article describes some of the new features in Windows Server 2025.Microsoft LearnXelu86 One of the features that I'm looking forward to the most

NKP Post 5: Provisioning your first Kubernetes cluster in NKP

Let's go ahead and deploy our first cluster for developed workloads. Adding a New Cluster Log into your portal/dashboard and go to the menu. Click "Clusters," and then in the top right corner, you'll find the "+ Add Cluster" button. In the "Add Cluster" GUI, you'll find different options. We're

NKP Post 4: Adding infrastructure providers and identity providers

Now that we have successfully deployed the NKP management cluster in our infrastructure and logged in to the dashboard, it's time to add some infrastructure endpoints to deploy our "workload clusters" where we can run applications. Adding an Infrastructure Provider Log in to your NKP Dashboard, head over to the

NKP Post 3: Deploying the NKP mgmt Cluster

So let's go ahead and deploy the NKP management (Kommander) cluster. Now the fun part begins. We've already done most of the hard work preparing and ensuring all the prerequisites are in place! Connect to your Bastion host that we installed in part one of this series. Start by creating

NKP Post 2: Setting up a local registry with Harbor to avoid hitting rate limits at docker.io

Welcome to part two of my series on how to deploy NKP on Nutanix. In this part, we will focus on setting up a local registry using Harbor. HarborOur mission is to be the trusted cloud native repository for Kubernetes The reason for this is that Docker has incorporated some

NKP Post 1: Preparing the setup environment

Before we kick off this series, I would like to extend a big thank you to Winson Sou at Nutanix for his excellent video series on this topic on YouTube. You can find his channel here: Winson Sou youtube channel This is the first post in the series on how

Takeaways NTC Tech Connect

Last week, we visited the Nutanix HQ in sunny San José, California. It was a fantastic event where we learned a lot from various sessions and had the opportunity to meet many product managers, developers and even Nutanix CEO Rajiv. See my summary in this LinkedIn post. One of the

Manual upload of Prism Central Binaries

I was going to update our test cluster to AOS 6.10 to test out all the cool new features that are released in the new big LTS release from nutanix. But prior to doing that i had to update Prism Central to a compatible version. The version that supports

Nutanix AOS 6.10 released

So, now the next LTS version of AOS is finaly released. I have been waiting for this one for so long. My favorite new feature in the release are the following: IP-less Communication Between NGT and CVM Why? Because for us as a Managed Service Provider, we cannot open Firewall

Application for Nutanix Technology Champion 2025 is now open

Are you thinking about becomming a Nutanix Technology Champion and joining the best programme in the Tech industry? Do not hessitate, the applications for 2025 are now open. You can read more about the programme and apply by vissting this link: Nutanix Technology Champion 2025 Applications are Open | Nutanix CommunityThe

Force Removal of Nutanix Files Cluster

Last week i set up a Nutanix File cluster for a customer. During stageing our communications team gave me the wrong subnet i information, so we had to redeploy the files cluster. But we where not able to delete the cluster since it had lost the connection with Windows AD.

Nutanix Technology Champion Tech Summit

WOW, what an oppertunity. October 21-22 Nutanix is inviting all Nutanix Technology Champions to the first ever NTC Tech summit in their HQ in San José, USA. There will be interesting Networking with NTC peers, interesting sessions and meetings. I will try to share as much information during the event

Nutanix Move 5.3.0 released

What's New 1. Upgrade Availability Move can be upgraded from versions 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.2.0. 2. VDDK Library Installation Added installation workflow in the Move UI to support VM migrations from ESXi. 3. Support for Additional Migrations New support for migrations

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=

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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,

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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

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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