Nutanix guides for AHV, Prism, CVM operations, networking, automation, data protection, security, troubleshooting, and hybrid-cloud architecture.
Introduction Role-based access control (RBAC) is critical in enterprise datacenter security. Nutanix Prism allows fine-grained user and group role mapping, and this can be fully automated using ncli. In this guide, we create, update, and delete Prism users and assign them appropriate roles using Bash scripts. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub … Explore: Nutanix User and Role Management via CLI
Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Nutanix Metro Nutanix Metro, also called Nutanix Metro Availability, is a business continuity and disaster recovery solution built into the Nutanix platform. It provides synchronous data replication between two geographically separated Nutanix clusters, ensuring zero data loss and rapid application failover in the event of site outages. Metro is … Explore: Nutanix Metro: Advanced Deployment, Configuration, and Best Practices…
Start here: validate the inputs before creating a VM This revised example uses nutanix.ncp 2.5.0 and requires explicit opt-in before creation. Prove read-only access first, verify the resource IDs, and plan for an ambiguous or partially completed request. Jump to project setup, the guarded playbook, validation and execution, or readiness checks. Introduction This is a … Explore: Deploying Nutanix AHV VMs with Ansible
Quick start: prove read access before provisioning Begin with a read-only AHV inventory query through Prism Central. This revision replaces the earlier VM-creation sample and uses the version-specific nutanix.ncp.ntnx_vms_info_v2 module; it does not deploy infrastructure. Jump to version prerequisites, encrypted credentials, the read-only playbook, or validation and execution. Introduction Start by proving that your Ansible … Explore: Automating Nutanix with Ansible: Foundations, Playbooks, and Best…
Introduction Every environment faces moments of failure. Whether from guest corruption, misconfigurations, or broken updates, virtual machines sometimes need urgent rescue. This guide offers a pre-built Bash-based emergency toolkit using acli to snapshot VMs, reassign NICs, attach recovery ISOs, and power cycle problematic VMs. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub Diagram: Rescue … Explore: Nutanix Emergency VM Rescue Bash Toolkit
Introduction Storage containers are a foundational part of Nutanix architecture, defining policy boundaries for deduplication, compression, and performance tiers. With ncli, you can automate the creation, resizing, and deletion of containers to match lifecycle events, DR plans, or capacity upgrades. This guide shows how to script it all with Bash. My Personal Repository on GitHub … Explore: Nutanix Storage Container Management via ncli
Introduction Proper network segmentation is essential for organizing workloads and securing traffic in Nutanix AHV. With acli and Bash, you can define and deploy VLAN-backed networks at scale, ensuring consistency across environments. This guide automates the creation of virtual networks using a repeatable, script-driven approach. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub Diagram: … Explore: Deploying AHV Networks using Bash and acli
Introduction Snapshots are a key feature in any backup or testing workflow. Managing them at scale, however, requires automation. With Bash and acli, you can script snapshot creation, enforce retention policies, and delete old snapshots, ideal for daily backup routines or testing environments. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub Diagram: Snapshot Management … Explore: Nutanix VM Snapshot Management with CLI and Bash
Introduction Capacity reporting is a crucial part of maintaining a healthy infrastructure. Instead of checking cluster metrics manually, automate them using Nutanix’s ncli. This script provides daily insights into memory, CPU, and storage availability, perfect for operational dashboards and email alerts. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub Diagram: Scheduled Capacity Report Flow … Explore: Scheduled Nutanix Capacity Reporting via CLI
Introduction Accurate VM inventory reporting is essential for operations, compliance, and capacity planning. Instead of exporting data manually from Prism, use Bash and Nutanix’s acli to automatically generate inventory reports in CSV format. These reports can feed into asset management systems or compliance checks. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub Diagram: VM … Explore: Nutanix VM Inventory Audits with Bash
Introduction Powering on or shutting down multiple VMs through the Prism interface can be tedious. With Bash and Nutanix’s acli, you can automate batch VM power operations, whether for scheduled maintenance, environment resets, or DR runbooks. This article shows how to control power states for multiple VMs based on name patterns, tags, or input lists. … Explore: Batch Power Control of Nutanix VMs via CLI
Introduction Manual VM creation through Prism becomes inefficient at scale. Using acli, Nutanix’s AHV command-line interface, we can script VM deployment workflows that are reusable, fast, and fully automated. This guide shows how to build a Bash script that reads VM definitions from YAML and provisions them via acli. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix … Explore: Automating VM Provisioning with Bash and acli
Introduction Daily cluster health checks are a best practice for Nutanix administrators. While Prism offers visual insights, Bash scripting combined with ncli allows you to create repeatable, automated health assessments. This guide walks through how to script these checks, log results, and optionally integrate notifications. My Personal Repository on GitHub Nutanix Repository on GitHub Benefits … Explore: Automating Nutanix Cluster Health Checks with Bash and…
Introduction Nutanix’s CLI tools provide the same administrative power as the Prism GUI, but in a faster and more scriptable format. With Bash, infrastructure teams can streamline repetitive tasks, enforce policy compliance, and improve operational speed. This deep dive explores the primary CLI options from Nutanix, and shows how to build intelligent Bash scripts to … Explore: Deep Dive into Nutanix CLI and Bash Automation
Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Nutanix Asynchronous Replication In today’s enterprise datacenters, disaster recovery (DR) is a top priority. Nutanix Asynchronous Replication (supported on AOS 6.6 and newer) enables organizations to protect workloads with flexible, policy-driven snapshot and replication technology. This capability ensures business continuity without the performance cost of synchronous replication. Using Nutanix … Explore: Nutanix Asynchronous Replication: Architecture, Configuration, and Real-World Operations…
Disaster Recovery (DR) strategies must evolve to keep pace with modern business demands. Nutanix NearSync Replication offers organizations near real-time data protection, low RPO, and granular failover capabilities. In this article, we dive deep into how NearSync works, prerequisites, configuration, CLI/API automation, best practices, advanced use cases, and troubleshooting—arming Nutanix administrators, architects, and security teams … Explore: Nutanix NearSync Replication: The Definitive Guide for Modern…
Table of Contents 1. Introduction to Nutanix DR Disaster recovery ensures that applications and data remain available, even after catastrophic events. Nutanix delivers integrated DR features across all deployment models, minimizing recovery time objectives (RTOs) and recovery point objectives (RPOs). Nutanix DR is designed to be hypervisor-agnostic but delivers the richest integration with AHV. It … Explore: Nutanix Disaster Recovery (DR) Overview: Architecture, Capabilities, and…
Table of Contents 1. Introduction Disaster recovery (DR) and business continuity planning are critical for enterprises relying on cloud-native infrastructure. With increasingly distributed workloads, ensuring that network security policies—especially microsegmentation and flow rules—replicate accurately across sites is essential for both compliance and operational resilience. This guide focuses on how Nutanix Flow enables robust security policy … Explore: Disaster Recovery and Business Continuity: Flow Policy Replication…
Table of Contents 1. Introduction Deep learning workloads are transforming enterprise AI. Running them efficiently at scale requires more than just powerful GPUs. Kubernetes has become the go-to platform for orchestrating modern, containerized machine learning environments. With Kubernetes, you get reproducibility, scalability, and deep integration with DevOps workflows. This tutorial and proof-of-concept guide shows how … Explore: Containerized Deep Learning: Running NVIDIA GPUs on VMware…
Nutanix Flow has rapidly evolved from simple microsegmentation to a robust enterprise security, automation, and network visibility suite. If you want to “go god mode” in Nutanix Flow—meaning complete, surgical control and insight over your application networks—this guide is your step-by-step blueprint. I’ll cover: Table of Contents 1. Introduction: What Does “God Mode” Mean in … Explore: How to Go God Mode in Nutanix Flow:…
