Category Archives: Nutanix

Changing the default Nutanix Passwords on your cluster from the Prism Central GUI

Last year (starting with Prism Central 2023.4 / AOS 6.71) Nutanix added the ability to centrally manage the local users (admin and nutanix) on AOS clusters and Prism Central itself through the PC GUI. Really useful for getting rid of … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery (Metro / 0 RPO) with Nutanix Prism Central 2024.2

As always, if your GUI (or docs) don’t match – check your versions! How to!I’m working with PC 2024.2-on-AOS 6.10-on-AHV in a nested environment. One 1 node cluster, one 3-node cluster. Each has its own Prism Central (the main difference … Continue reading →

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Trunking VMs in the GUI with Nutanix

New with Prism Central 2023.x you can now allow trunking to a virtual machine from Prism Central. Where typically the oVS strips the VLAN tag off of incoming network packets (and attaches the tags to out-going packets), if you set … Continue reading →

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Creating a Nutanix VM from a qcow2 image

This assumes you have sourced a qcow2 image (I downloaded SLES15-SP6-Minimal-VM.x86_64-Cloud-GM.qcow2). Process:Upload Image, Create VM (attaching a copy of the qcow2 as a disk), power on the VM. Profit. Step 1:Upload the image to Nutanix. I’m using Prism Central but … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6.10 Prism Element

Also see the DR Overview post How to!I’m working with AOS 6.10-on-AHV in a nested environment. One 1 node cluster, one 3-node. Each with Prism Central. They are all on the same network (so it mimics a stretched network). Since … Continue reading →

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Disaster Recovery with Nutanix AOS 6.10 and Prism Central 2024.2 (Overview)

I have a project involving setting up and testing DR with Nutanix so I’ll be making notes about the overall topics and then posting some walk-throughs on setting it up. First off note the versions this blog post about (AOS … Continue reading →

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