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
Yesterday we had a “urgent” request to update all of the credentials on our Nutanix clusters. While my colleague worked on the clusters with VMware as a Hypervisor, I started with the cluster running AHV as a hypervisor. Although this is relatively small cluster (11 NX-3060 nodes), I loath to… Continue reading
So I’ve installed Nutanix Community Edition & Prism Central in my desired configuration, but still some stuff to check, so I can really start using my homelab. 1. Networking First thing is to ensure the network is configured correctly. The SuperMicro X10SDV-12C-TLNB4F+ motherboard has -amongst it features- 2 10Gbe SFP+… Continue reading
Ok, in part 5 I finally can start deploying the Prism Central instance. This will be done using the Prism Console. I logged on to the console and see immediately the cluster is not registered to Prism Central. So I click on “Register or create new”, and as I don’t… Continue reading
Already at part 4 of setting up “The LAB” (it’s going to be a long run), but trying to document this in a good way for myself and in the same time share my experience in setting this up. 1. Storage The cluster has been configured, passwords changed, now let’s… Continue reading