Nutanix have released the first of their professional certifications; “Nutanix Certified Professional” NCP 5 which is set to replace the Nutanix Platform Professional track. In doing so, Nutanix have upped the ante on the credibility of this certification as it is no longer an open book exam. The exam must be completed in a …
Nutanix Prism Central Fails to start on AHV
Prism Central failed to start from Prism after it had been shut down. When you selected PC the power on action was not available. Turns out it's a fairly simple task from acli To complete SSH to a CVM : run -> acli to drop into the <acropolis> section run the following commands : <acropolis>vm.force_off …
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Delete Orphan Snapshots in AHV
Recently I was onsite running some NCC checks and there was a lot of stale snapshots hanging around where the VM had just been deleted and the snaps were left behind consuming space and giving lots of errors in NCC. After checking the KB3752 - I was able to run the following command : ncc …
CUGC Ireland June 2018 event
We just had our summer event in Dublin in the Sky suite of the Radison Gloden lane. It was one of our best to date with almost 40 attending to here from our super panel of speakers including Citrix CTP's a Senior Escalation engineer for Skyp4B company CEO and our sponsors Igel. First up …
Nutanix – Citrix Cloud – Instant On
I've been saying this for a while, and with the push from Citrix to a world of Hybrid cloud and the the vast array of apps with many connections to services that will stay op prem for some time to come, the best place to run your desktops will be on Nutanix Enterprise cloud. The …
Irish CUGC September 2017
The autumn edition of the Citrix User Group in Ireland was held last week in the fairly cool surroundings of the http://drurybuildings.com/ in the center of Dublin, a very well attended event with a good mix of end users and consultants in the room. We had guest speakers from the Dutch User Group who …
Migrate Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV
With many customers now choosing to purchase their Nutanix cluster and go with the purpose built AHV hyper-visor at no extra cost I am tasked with putting together migration plans from ESXi , Hyper-V etc.. We have a number of options, depending if the customer can experience downtime or not and if there are too …
Irish CUGC June 2017
We had our fifth meeting or the Irish CUCG in Dublin yesterday afternoon and what a packed agenda it was, we were lucky to have Andrew Wood and Jim Moyle two of the 50 world wide Citrix CTP's present a session on "Preventing Performance Pain points" Jim and Andy delved into PVS best practices, how …
Self Service with AOS 5.0
So lets take a look at self service porthole from Nutanix latest release, I think I will break this up into a series of articles as I learn a bit more I will publish some content. As their is a separate Prism GUI for Self Service there is a little setup to begin with to …
Increase CVM memory for Self Service
With the release of AOS 5.0 we have some major features and one i'm looking forward to work with is the Self Service portal, to get started with it the first thing we need to do is increase the CVM memory size. We can do this quite easily using the VIRSH command. Lets take a …
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