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Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on vSphere 7

Installing Nutanix Community Edition (CE) on vSphere 7

For a number of years now Nutanix has offered a 'community edition' of our AOS and Prism Central software suite. The community edition closely resembles the enterprise versions, but is packaged in a way to allow it to install on commodity hardware, or in a nested virtualization environment. It's also...

Announcing Nutanix Era 1.3 Release

Announcing Nutanix Era 1.3 Release

Hot off the press is Nutanix Era v1.3. What is Era?  Era is a database as a service (DBaaS) that automates and simplifies database administration, brings one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and life-cycle management. Era enables database administrators to provision, clone, and refresh the database clones at...

Nutanix Acropolis 5.10.0.1 Released

Nutanix Acropolis 5.10.0.1 Released

​A couple of weeks ago Nutanix AOS 5.10 was released, along with new versions of AHV (Nutanix Hypervisor) and NCC (Nutanix Cluster Check). These were long term support releases and contains a lot of new features. Today, we released a minor patch release for AOS and Prism Central, version 5.10.0.1....

Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 1)

Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 2)

This post is part 2 of 2, of my NPX Architecture Guide how-to series. In this post we will cover sections 9 through 14, from the outline below. You can check out the first part of this series here. At the end I will also give you some more tips...

Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 1)

Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 1)

A couple of months ago I successfully defended my Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) certification and became number 14 in the world to obtain the certification. You can read all about that journey here. As part of the NPX certification process you submit a documentation package which should cover all of...

My Journey to Nutanix Platform Expert (NPX) #014

​NPX Resources​Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 1)Nutanix NPX Architecture Guide How-To (Part 2)​The JourneyAlmost four years ago to the month my career took a major turn. I just successfully passed the VMware VCDX datacenter virtualization certification, to become #125 in the world. You can read about my VCP5 to...

Resetting lost ESXi root password with Nutanix

The other day I was at a customer for a fresh installation of Nutanix using vSphere 6.5. And for whatever reason, when they were resetting the ESXi root password to their default, it was fat fingered. When they went to add the hosts to vCenter, they couldn't add them since...

Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1 Released

Today I am glad to announce the general availability of Nutanix AOS 5.1.1.1. This is a patch release, but it also has a few new features. Of interest to you will be the security patches (11 total), and a good sized list of resolved issues. You can find the full...

Nutanix AOS 5.1 & Companions are now GA

For the second time this year, Nutanix has released a major feature upgrade to AOS and companion software. Now available, is AOS 5.1! Top of the list of new features is vSphere 6.5 support for NX platforms (Nutanix branded gear). vSphere 6.5 support for OEM platforms is coming soon. But...

Nutanix AOS 5.0.1 enabled for 1-click upgrades

Earlier this year Nutanix released AOS 5.0, which contained dozens and dozens of new features and enhancements. As Nutanix customers know, we have 1-click upgrades for AOS. Prism will automatically notify you when there is an updated AOS version available. While customers can immediately download new releases from the portal...