Virtualization & Technology Blog
This last week I attended the Nutanix NTX bootcamp. It is a free course run by Nutanix NTX qualified architects. It is a hard week but there is a great sense of acheivement when completing it. I would highly recommend registering for the course if you get the chance. They are being run all over … Continue reading I attended the Nutanix NTX Bootcamp
Introduction If you want to start taking advantage of some of the new features of Prism Central 5.5 like, Dynamic alerting, VM right-sizing, and scheduled reporting then you will need to update it. Here is the AOS 5.5 video from the Nutanix nu.school channel Documents Here are the links to the Prism Central Documents Release … Continue reading Upgrading Nutanix Prism Central
Nutanix have announced their 2018 Nutanix Technology Champions and I'm very pleased to say I have been selected. It is great being part of such a knowledgable and helpful community. Congratulations to all!!! https://next.nutanix.com/t5/Nutanix-Connect-Blog/Welcome-to-the-2018-Nutanix-Technology-Champions-NTC/ba-p/26328
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
