Nutanix - Jonas Blog

Nutanix

A collection of 11 posts

Create all VLANs from one cluster to a New Cluster

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

Upgrading Prism Central to 2022.9 (CMSP)

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 Technology Champion 2023

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

Migrating from Proxmox KVM to Nutanix AHV

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

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

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

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

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

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

Windows Server 2022 on AHV

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 P2V using VMware Converter

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

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

Increasing CVM RAM

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