Stephan Wibier

Nutanix: stop and remove tasks

Apr

3

2025

Sometimes it happens that Tasks in a Nutanix environment take like forever.It is not recommended but there are occasions that a Task needs to STOP!And it happens that this is not possible via the GUI (Prism Element or Prism Central). So to get the current running tasks:(from PE or PC) ecli task.list include_completed=false And to ...

RockyLinux File extend drive FYI

Mar

25

2025

Just a quick reminder, for myself 😉 Needed to resize a partition on RockyLinux 9.5And wanted to document that. So this was a /home partition, on a LVM system. Steps I took: Backup /home –> tar -czvf /root/home.tgz -C /home . Test Backup –> tar -tvf /root/home.tgz unmount /home –> umount /dev/mapper/rl_<NAME_OF_MACHINE>-home Remove logical volume ...

Cluster has dual stack enabled. Cannot register to a PC (Nutanix)

Mar

18

2025

So, you have a brand new Nutanix cluster deployed.Now you want to register your Prism Element cluster to a Prism Central instance! So, let’s start. ‘Register or create new’ ‘Connect’ ‘Next’ Fill in the appropriate fields, and hit ‘Connect’ WAIT, What is that? Cluster has dual stack enabled. Cannot register to a PC. Uh, so ...

Nutanix CE 2.1 marks disks wrong (SSD/NMVe as HDD)

Feb

10

2025

So you installed Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) version 2.1.Everything went well, created the cluster and then you login to Prism and see (some) of your disks marked wrong, i.e. a SSD or NVMe is shown as HDD. This sometimes happens as the current CE is almost on par with the full blown flagship product. If you ...

Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 2.0 – Terminal to small…uh

Oct

7

2023

"Terminal screen is not large enough to run the installation script. Please resize the terminal and rerun the script." Ok, so I was installing the Nutanix Community Edition 2.0 (download here: https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/download-community-edition-38417 ) on a HP Z620. These boxes do not have a videocard onboard, so you have to be present at the machine instead ...

Password hash in CentOS 7/8

Oct

2

2023

If you want to create a password hash that you want to put into your cloud-init configuration, it is possible to use a plain-text password. But you can use a hash so nobody can see the password. Some Linux distributions have the mkpasswd utility, but on CentOS this is not available. You can use a python one-liner ...

Linux – Cloud-init, note-to-self

May

7

2023

Just a reminder for myself. Can use in Cloud-init to set password for the root account. #cloud-config ssh_pwauth: true users: - name: root lock_passwd: false hashed_passwd: HASHED_PASSWORD ssh_authorized_keys: - ssh-rsa <key>

Linux – Password has been used already. Choose another

Dec

19

2022

Just a quick reminder, note-to-self Linux – Password has been used already. Choose another root@linux:~ # passwdChanging password for root.New Password:Reenter New Password:Password has been used already. Choose another.Password changed Linux is keeping the old password stored on /etc/security/opasswd. Delete the line containing the user that you’re trying to change the password.It is encrypted so ...

Microsoft Security ATP Defender rename

Nov

11

2021

This is just a small post about the last rename of the Microsoft Security suites.I found this infogram on the Net and it is a good overview so I like to keep this for reference.I don’t know who the author is so I cannot give credits at this time. Microsoft Defender suite All the original ...

Windows Update error 0x8007422

Aug

14

2019

This is just a quick one! I was in the process of updating a client and I got an error 0x80070422. Well ok, what is that? Actually very easy So what if I Enable and Start this service? Succes!! Happy Updating