AHV | Thoughts and Ramblings by Mike

Omnissa Horizon Updates for Nutanix AHV

Aug 12, 2025 · 5 min read · Omnissa Horizon View Nutanix AHV VDI ·

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 …

Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 2

Jul 18, 2025 · 7 min read · AHV NTC Smart VM Placement Affinity Anti-Affinity ·

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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 …

Smarter VM Placement with Nutanix AHV - Part 1

Jun 13, 2025 · 7 min read · AHV NTC Smart VM Placement ·

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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 …

Backup Support for Nutanix AOS 7

Jun 5, 2025 · 4 min read · Data Protection AHV AOS NTC ·

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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 they are landing with the latest AOS releases. …

Nutanix March Releases: Key Features & Fixes

Mar 19, 2025 · 5 min read · nutanixntc ahv nutanix ·

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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 …

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

Mar 14, 2025 · 6 min read · ahv bug home-lab nexus ·

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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 …

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

Dec 23, 2023 · 13 min read · nutanixntc toc acropolis ahv nutanix ·

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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 …

FMCv 7.2 Upgrade on AHV

Jul 1, 2022 · 1 min read · ahv bug fmc ·

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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 …

Nutanix CE Refresh with Internal SSD

Feb 17, 2020 · 3 min read · ahv community-edition home-lab ntc nutanix ·

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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 …

Nutanix Frame Deployment: Part 1 - The Setup

May 21, 2019 · 4 min read · ahv frame ntc nutanix ·

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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 …