If you have installed Nutanix Community Edition as a Virtual Machine in VMware Workstation or Fusion then you might want to reduce the Memory and CPU allocation assigned as part of the install. This will help ease the potential for contention on your physical machine especially if it is short of CPU & Memory. It … Continue reading Resizing a CVM Using Command Line →

  Introduction Acropolis File Services (AFS) enables you to share files across user work stations or VMs in a centralized protected location to eliminate the requirement for a third-party file server. AFS uses a scale-out architecture that provides Server Message Block (SMB) file services to Windows clients for home share and user profiles. AFS consists … Continue reading Nutanix AFS – Introduction & Steps For Setting Up →

If you have ever had to reinstall a CVM you find when you next try to SSH into it you will get the following message :   This is because the RSA key will have changed during the reinstall and the key stored locally on your laptop will be the old one. To fix the … Continue reading RSA Key Error using SSH on a reinstalled CVM →

Here are two useful resources that I would recommend checking out if you are interested in finding out more on Nutanix. These are the Nutanix education channel 'nu.school' and the Nutanix Bible. The nu.school channel post video training pretty regularly and especially when Nutanix release a new version of AOS. I would recommend subscribing and … Continue reading Learning Nutanix – nu.school and the Nutanix Bible →

Nutanix have released AOS version 5.5 which is their biggest one ever. There is a very long list of new features in this edition. Some of the highlights include : Machine Learning Capability Nutanix Calm Reports Management Async Disaster Recovery with NearSync AHV Turbo Data Path Support for vNUMA Single Node Clusters Running VMs vGPU … Continue reading Nutanix AOS 5.5 Released →