Nutanix Archives - Stephan Wibier

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 ...

Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 5.10

Mar

15

2019

Hi, so this is a new one. And it’s different, more technical. Also very nice to do and to play around with. I’m talking about the CommunityEdition (CE) of the Nutanix stack. Wait the what? Nutanix is a vendor that provides a Hyper-Converged datacenter solution. Enterprise Cloud. One OS. One Click. Any Cloud. Hm I ...

HOW-TO Install Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 5.10 on VMware ESXi 6.7

Mar

15

2019

So in my last post I gave the address of where to get the nice and free bits to play with: Nutanix CommunityEdition (CE) 5.10 At the moment there is no ISO to download, so we have to go with the manual installation. This is not so hard but we have to take a few ...