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DevOps 5: Summary and inspiration

So, we have now successfully deployed a Rancher Orchestration cluster on k3s, we have deployed our Rancher RKE2 downstream cluster on nutanix using the nutanix node driver for rancher, and then we have deployed two fantastic tools, both AWX and Ansible Forms, to start automating and orchestrating our Nutanix environment

Devops Post 4: Deploying AWX and Ansible Forms with Fleet

So now that we have the CSI driver in place on our RKE2 cluster, we can go ahead and deploy some workloads on it. In our case, we use AWX to orchestrate all our Ansible playbooks and code. What is AWX? Ansible AWX is an open-source, web-based automation platform that

DevOps Post 3: Using Rancher Fleet to handle cluster configuration and deploying the Nutanix CSI driver

Hi, now that we have the first RKE2 downstream cluster in place, you would start deploying some different workloads. To do that, we need to deploy manifests or Helm charts. The best way to do that is by using Rancher's built-in continuous delivery module called Rancher Fleet Continuous

DevOps Post 2: Deploying your first RKE2 downstream cluster using the Nutanix Node Driver

Okay, now that you have your Rancher installation done, we're going to enable the Nutanix GUI extension and the Rancher node driver, connect to the Prism Central instance, and start deploying RKE2 Downstream Clusters. First, in the menu on the left-hand side, click Extensions: Then find the Nutanix

DevOps Post 1: Setting up Rancher on k3s

Welcome to the first post in the series. First of all, we need to set up the Rancher control plane node on something within our test environment. For us, we standardized this whole setup on Rocky Linux. For this test Rancher installation, we installed it on k3s on the Rocky

Building a DevOps Environment on Nutanix, Ansible, Kubernetes, and Rancher in Action

A while ago, we started using Ansible to perform VM lifecycle operations on the Nutanix platform. Now that I finally have the time, I thought it would be a good idea to write a blog post series about how we set up the Ansible environment on our test cluster and

Nutanix move 5.5.2 is released

Among the news there are some updates in supporter operatingsystems for migration and some new migration senarios among additional deployment types of the move appliance it self. Full details as usual on the Nutanix portal. Nutanix Support & Insights

Windows Server 2025 on AHV

Last friday Microsoft released Windows Server 2025 as GA. The complete list of new features can be found here: What’s new in Windows Server 2025This article describes some of the new features in Windows Server 2025.Microsoft LearnXelu86 One of the features that I'm looking forward to

NKP Post 5: Provisioning your first Kubernetes cluster in NKP

Let's go ahead and deploy our first cluster for developed workloads. Adding a New Cluster Log into your portal/dashboard and go to the menu. Click "Clusters," and then in the top right corner, you'll find the "+ Add Cluster" button. In the

NKP Post 4: Adding infrastructure providers and identity providers

Now that we have successfully deployed the NKP management cluster in our infrastructure and logged in to the dashboard, it's time to add some infrastructure endpoints to deploy our "workload clusters" where we can run applications. Adding an Infrastructure Provider Log in to your NKP Dashboard,

NKP Post 3: Deploying the NKP mgmt Cluster

So let's go ahead and deploy the NKP management (Kommander) cluster. Now the fun part begins. We've already done most of the hard work preparing and ensuring all the prerequisites are in place! Connect to your Bastion host that we installed in part one of this

NKP Post 2: Setting up a local registry with Harbor to avoid hitting rate limits at docker.io

Welcome to part two of my series on how to deploy NKP on Nutanix. In this part, we will focus on setting up a local registry using Harbor. HarborOur mission is to be the trusted cloud native repository for Kubernetes The reason for this is that Docker has incorporated some

NKP Post 1: Preparing the setup environment

Before we kick off this series, I would like to extend a big thank you to Winson Sou at Nutanix for his excellent video series on this topic on YouTube. You can find his channel here: Winson Sou youtube channel This is the first post in the series on how

Takeaways NTC Tech Connect

Last week, we visited the Nutanix HQ in sunny San José, California. It was a fantastic event where we learned a lot from various sessions and had the opportunity to meet many product managers, developers and even Nutanix CEO Rajiv. See my summary in this LinkedIn post. One of the

Manual upload of Prism Central Binaries

I was going to update our test cluster to AOS 6.10 to test out all the cool new features that are released in the new big LTS release from nutanix. But prior to doing that i had to update Prism Central to a compatible version. The version that supports

Nutanix AOS 6.10 released

So, now the next LTS version of AOS is finaly released. I have been waiting for this one for so long. My favorite new feature in the release are the following: IP-less Communication Between NGT and CVM Why? Because for us as a Managed Service Provider, we cannot open Firewall

Application for Nutanix Technology Champion 2025 is now open

Are you thinking about becoming a Nutanix Technology Champion and joining the best programme in the Tech industry? Do not hessitate, the applications for 2025 are now open. You can read more about the programme and apply by vissting this link: Nutanix Technology Champion 2025 Applications are Open | Nutanix CommunityThe

Force Removal of Nutanix Files Cluster

Last week i set up a Nutanix File cluster for a customer. During stageing our communications team gave me the wrong subnet i information, so we had to redeploy the files cluster. But we where not able to delete the cluster since it had lost the connection with Windows AD.

Nutanix Technology Champion Tech Summit

WOW, what an oppertunity. October 21-22 Nutanix is inviting all Nutanix Technology Champions to the first ever NTC Tech summit in their HQ in San José, USA. There will be interesting Networking with NTC peers, interesting sessions and meetings. I will try to share as much information during the event

Nutanix Move 5.3.0 released

What's New 1. Upgrade Availability Move can be upgraded from versions 5.0.0, 5.1.0, 5.1.1, and 5.2.0. 2. VDDK Library Installation Added installation workflow in the Move UI to support VM migrations from ESXi. 3. Support for Additional Migrations New support

Tags from VMware vSphere to Nutanix Categories

In a previous post i created a workflow to migrate System Center Virtual Machine Manager CustomAttributes to Nutanix Categories and values. I received a request to write this for VMware vSphare Tags as well. So here is a updated workflow to migrate your VMware vSphare Tags to Nutanix Categories and

CustomAttributes from Hyper-V to Nutanix Categories

Update: Uppon request from fellow NTC colleuge, i made a version of this script for VMware vSphare tags also. Take a look this post for more information about that. Recently, I received a request asking if I had encountered a customer using Custom Attributes on their VMs in Hyper-V and

Moving EFI partition before C:

So a coupple of months ago we activated UEFI boot on our Templates in our Nutanix Environment to be able to benefit from Secure Boot and vTPM witch was newly introduced to the Nutanix platform, and as a step to enable UEFI boot we need to convert the disks to

Move 5.0.0 released

Today Nutanix announced the release of Move 5.0.0. Looks like a intressting release. Some of the highlights: * Move now supports the migration of files from external file servers to Nutanix file servers. For full list of new features and buggfixes, se following Release notes on portal. Nutanix Support

Getting all your VMs with Affinity rules

So! Today i wanted to list all the VMs in our cluster that had any host affinity rules.  So, just for future reference here is a oneliner that you can run from any PC CVM First we take a look at the nuclei command vm_host_affinity_legacy_policy.list