If you have a Cisco Modeling Labs appliance in your lab or running on a piece of dedicated hardware, you have probably noticed two browser warnings every time you log in. CML ships with self-signed certs on both the main web UI and the Cockpit management UI, and your browser will complain about both. Cisco publishes an …

I've spent the past several months diving into automation for Nutanix, and the learning curve has been steeper than I expected. Not because the tools are bad, but because each one approaches automation differently, and figuring out which tool fits which task took more trial and error than I anticipated. My goal was …

Deploying Windows VMs on Nutanix AHV requires VirtIO drivers that aren't included in the standard Windows installation media. This means manually loading drivers during setup or mounting driver ISOs after installation. I've built a PowerShell tool that simplifies this process by injecting the VirtIO drivers directly …

Advanced automation through in-guest scripts takes disaster recovery from good to great. While Recovery Plans handle infrastructure orchestration, there are application-specific configurations that require execution inside the guest operating system; DNS reconfiguration, IP changes, and service initialization as a few …

Modern DR platforms have fundamentally transformed business continuity from complex, manual procedures into policy-driven automation. This post explores how platforms like Nutanix Disaster Recovery deliver hybrid cloud-native protection, non-disruptive testing, application-aware recovery, and simplified …