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  • Omnissa Horizon Updates for Nutanix AHV

    calendar Aug 12, 2025 · 4 min read · Omnissa Horizon Nutanix AHV VDI Virtualization  ·
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    Omnissa Horizon Updates for Nutanix AHV

    Breaking Free - Omnissa Horizon 8 + Nutanix AHV is Reshaping the VDI Landscape Okay, I'll try to contain my excitement, but honestly? This is some fun stuff and will really highlight how 2025 has been a year of transformation! I've been reviewing Omnissa's latest announcement about full Horizon 8 support for Nutanix …


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  • Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 2

    calendar Jul 18, 2025 · 7 min read · AHV Nutanix VM Placement Affinity Anti-Affinity Configuration  ·
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    Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 2

    Took me a bit longer to get back around to writing Part 2, life get's in the way sometimes! Following up on Part 1 where I covered the benefits (and some pitfalls) of Affinity and Anti-Affinity polices with AHV, this post will cover the configuration and validation of these policies. Affinity and Anti-Affinity policies …


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  • Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 1

    calendar Jun 13, 2025 · 7 min read · AHV Nutanix VM Placement Performance High Availability  ·
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    Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 1

    In a virtualized environment, how and where your virtual machines (VMs) run isn't just a matter of resource availability. It's a key part of your resiliency, performance, and compliance strategy. That’s where Affinity and Anti-Affinity policies come into play. With Nutanix AHV, administrators may gain granular control …


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  • Backup Support for Nutanix AOS 7

    calendar Jun 5, 2025 · 4 min read · Data Protection AHV AOS Nutanix Backup  ·
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    Backup Support for Nutanix AOS 7

    #comment: true # Disable comment if false. If you've been holding off on upgrading to AOS 7 due to backup vendor support, we've crossed that bridge! Let's take a quick look at the current landscape of AHV and AOS releases, and then do a quick rundown of the current support from a few major backup vendors to see how …


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  • Nutanix March Releases: Key Features & Fixes

    calendar Mar 19, 2025 · 5 min read · Nutanix AHV Prism Central Product Updates  ·
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    Nutanix March Releases: Key Features & Fixes

    It's New Release Wednesday from Nutanix (3.19.25), with new releases for AHV, AOS and Prism Central, bringing some fixes and nice new features. March has been a busy month for Nutanix, dropping a number of different product updates (shown below), but I'm going to focus on the big 3 that came out today. Updates in March …


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  • Issues with DCBX and LLDP on NX-OS 10.x

    calendar Mar 14, 2025 · 6 min read · AHV Bug Home Lab Nexus Networking  ·
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    Issues with DCBX and LLDP on NX-OS 10.x

    I recently deployed a new Nexus 93180YC-EX switch into my home lab, to replace the aging 9372PX. Sure, for a home lab this was fine, but I wanted to get up to some 25Gbe speeds! I've got various equipment connected to that old Nexus, with 2 Nutanix clusters and single VMware cluster, plus various other things, nothing …


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  • Mastering Maintenance Mode Operations in Nutanix: A Guide for AHV and ESXi

    calendar Dec 23, 2023 · 13 min read · nutanix acropolis ahv maintenance-mode operations  ·
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    As with years past, as we come to a close on year’s end, I take some time to clean up the As-Built documentation templates I maintain for deployments; as part of this activity, I always come across outdated sections based on current feature sets, or areas that I think can use some additional content. This week, I …


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  • FMCv 7.2 Upgrade Gotchas on AHV

    calendar Jul 1, 2022 · 1 min read · cisco firepower fmc ahv nutanix troubleshooting  ·
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    Posting this more as a note to myself as a reminder and to also read the release notes a bit more carefully! After recently going thru an upgrade of the Firepower Management Center from 7.0.x to 7.2 FMCv, specifically on the Nutanix AHV platform I ran into a bug where the VM would not boot after the upgrade. While the …


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  • Nutanix CE Refresh with Internal SSD Upgrade

    calendar Feb 17, 2020 · 3 min read · nutanix community-edition ahv home-lab ssd upgrade  ·
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    It’s been a while since I’ve gotten any fresh content on this blog, hopefully I’ll get some content ideas to keep a regular cadence of updates going. While I was updating the cabling on the garage lab, I realized it had been a while since I had done anything on my CE lab from a version perspective, in fact the last …


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  • Nutanix Frame Deployment: Part 1 - The Setup

    calendar May 21, 2019 · 4 min read · nutanix frame ahv cloud desktop-as-a-service deployment  ·
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    Updated 5.22.19 Coming back from the Nutanix .Next conference two weeks ago, the biggest announcement that really got me excited as the ability for Nutanix Frame to run in AHV environments. AHV comes as an additional environment to AWS where Frame started, Azure and Google Cloud, currently in early release. I’ll be …


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Mike Dent

Field CTO by day, dog dad, driveway workout partner with my wife, bourbon enthusiast by night, and helping organizations modernize IT without losing their sanity.
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  • Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 2
  • Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 1
  • 2025 Home Lab: Nutanix, Cisco, TrueNAS, and Testing
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