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Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK – Installation of Nutanix Community Edition (CE) – Part2...
There are several great posts which show how to setup Nutanix CE in a HomeLab. Tim Expert TinkerTry Gareth Chapman XenAppBlog Mike Sheehy I will focus on my own setup , based on the Intel NUC6i7KYK....
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Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK – Installation of Nutanix Community Edition (CE) – Part3...
Now it’s time to create a Nutanix cluster. But there are some default settings I would like to change before I create the cluster. This is not mandatory but this will increase the usability in the...
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Nutanix automation VM ( NTNX-AVM ) goes online
Since I started at Nutanix I thought about a way to write and run scripts/tools around the Nutanix ecosystem. But there are different languages which are used by the community....
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Unleash the power of the NTNX-AVM – daily_health_report and monthly_ncc_health
I asked myself how could an admin use the NTNX-AVM. So I decided to show and provide some real world examples how this powerful automation VM can be used. USE CASE: A daily health report should run on...
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Unleash the power of the NTNX-AVM – Import/Export/Migrate VMs to/from AHV
in a recent customer Proof of Concepts (PoC) I encountered a common task. Importing a VM from VMware vSphere to Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) and after testing export the VM back to the...
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Intel NUC NUC6i7KYK – Upgrade of Nutanix Community Edition (CE)
Today I upgraded the Intel NUC cluster based on Nutanix CE. This was pretty easy. Choose “gear wheel” in the top right corner and select “Upgrade Software” As you can see. The new Nutanix CE version...
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Unleash the power of the NTNX-AVM – Move VM from one container to another...
This post is related to AHV only!!! Make sure a recent backup of the VM exist! In the last weeks customers asked me how to move a VM from one AHV container to another AHV container on the same...
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Nutanix REST API with Golang/Go Tutorial – Part 1 – Nutanix REST API Overview
This blog series is dedicated to the Nutanix REST API and how to automate tasks based on the language Go leveraging the REST API. I will focus on the typical tasks you would like to automate. Some...
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Nutanix REST API with Golang/Go Tutorial – Part 2 – Authentication
The first step when interacting with the Nutanix Rest API with GO is to authenticate against the API. To do so you need to know that Nutanix makes use of user authentication. There is a role concept...
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Nutanix REST API with Golang/Go Tutorial – Part 3 – Retrieve information...
In this part I will focus on retrieving data from the Nutanix REST API. So basically this will show two important parts. 1. How to get data from the API ! 2. How to parse the data which is in JSON...
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