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 …
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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 …
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 …
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 …
Nutanix CVM Space issues
I ran into some interesting space issues on Nutanix cluster recently, I was doing a manual download of NOS to run the upgrade and my /home folder on one of the CVM's was hitting 95% and giving some warnings. After a quick call with support my suspicions were confirmed and some stuff could be deleted …
Nutanix single host bare metal install
On some occasions, I have been faced with the task of building a node without the foundation VM. For this you will need a copy of the Hyper-Visor in my case it is usually ESXi and this is what I will concentrate on here. You will also need a copy of the Nutanix phoenix ISO …
Citrix MCS on Acropolis
So been waiting on this integration for a while now and with the release of Citrix 7.9 and the integration plug-in from Nutanix were finally here. Some thing to be aware, make sure you are on the latest NOS version 4.6.1 which is latest at time of writing, other wise you may run into some …
XenServer To Acropolis
So after reviewing a number of blog posts and gluing them together to get a process down to migrate windows VM's to Nutanix Acropolis using KVM as the hyper-visor. Prerequisites : Nutanix Acropolis cluster up and running by default there is an NFS share available which we will use to move the XenServer VM's to. …
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