I am absolutely thrilled and proud to announce that I have been re-elected as a Nutanix Technology Champion! This exciting journey continues as I join once more an incredible group of 74 talented individuals from all corners of the globe. Each one of them is a passionate advocate for technology,… Continue reading
A couple of days ago I replaced some of my network components in order to achieve some more segmentation. I wanted to ensure I’ve got a couple of segments in place to enhance my security a bit. These segments/vLANs are: The above doesn’t sound so strange to anyone involved in… Continue reading
As you might have read in my last post I finally managed to install the latest Community Edition from Nutanix. Why did I do this? Mainly because AOS and AHV are now similar to the commercial versions and can be upgraded via LifeCycle Manager (LCM) to the latest versions (to… Continue reading
As you might know, I’m a big fan of the Nutanix Community Edition which helps me to fiddle around with AOS & AHV, learn new stuff, and all that without compromising production workloads. A new CE version has been released back in March. DISCLAIMER: Why was this post delayed This… Continue reading
A long overdue post to express my gratitude to Nutanix (and especially Angelo Luciani) for taking me up once more in this amazing group of individuals. This year the group consists of 100 individuals from all over the globe, and personally I found it great to see that people that… Continue reading
Last year Udacity developed a new course with Nutanix called Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals. Out of professional interest I signed up for this course and I can recommend this one to everyone starting with HyperConverged Infrastructure (HCI). This is a great entry level course to get you started and if you… Continue reading
Yesterday I received a mail from Angelo Luciani congratulating me on being recognised as a Nutanix Technology Champion for 2021. After getting in last year, I was hoping to extend this as we didn’t had the chance to meet up in real life, so here goes attempt 2 :). This… Continue reading
The great folks at ControlUp grant each #vExpert, #CTP, #MVP and #NutanixNTC a free annual NFR license for their home-lab. This post will describe the easy setup of ControlUp for The LAB. Michael White did a similar write-up, so please check that one out also to ensure you don’t miss… Continue reading
This post will describe 2 use cases where I used my PKI, as those were most important to me. All my other infrastructure will get the proper certificate (where needed), but I will not describe this (or if I run into some issues) Domain Controller Ok now I made my… Continue reading
Okay, I now deployed some basic infrastructure (Domain Controller, Firewall & Cloud Connect), I will focus now on creating my templates within Prism, so I can speed up deployment a bit. WARNING This post is quite basic and I found the actions very tedious, but nevertheless I found it necessary… Continue reading