Introduction Over time old logs and old software starts to build up in the CVM /home directory. The following error will be observed in Prism Update 11/03/19 - Nutanix have updated the KB article on this alert and made it public. It can be found here If you have any doubts about running the commands … Continue reading Nutanix CVM Error – Disk Space Usage /home On Controller exceeded 80% →

I noticed today some of our clusters had very old versions of Nutanix Life Cycle Manager (LCM) installed so thought I would put together a blog post on how to upgrade the LCM component while I was doing it. It is pretty straight forward and a nice thing to keep up to date as features … Continue reading Upgrading Nutanix LCM →

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 →