This post is the first of a weekly series of short articles on Nutanix, providing hopefully useful tips.

If you need to change passwords on your Nutanix cluster (Host, IPMI and CVM) you can use these below scripts to do it quickly.

Change password on all CVM:

for i in svmips;do echo “–$i–“;ssh nutanix@$i ‘echo -e “NewPassword\nNewPassword” | sudo passwd nutanix’;done

Change password on all Host:

for i in hostips;do echo “–$i–“;ssh root@$i ‘echo -e “NewPassword\nNewPassword” | passwd

Nutanix Files is a native part of the Nutanix Enterprise portfolio and like any other Nutanix products, Files expose a REST API that can be used to automate many operations.

In the video below, we will cover how to extend many functionalities of Nutanix Files with both VMware vRealize Automation and vRealize Orchestrator in order to add a File as a Service in the vRA catalogue.

To do this, we integrate 3 platforms: Nutanix Files, vRealize Orchestrator, and the vRealize …

We all wish to avoid disasters, but unfortunately, they do occur. Today statistics indicate that even a very short amount of downtime can have significant adverse effects on a company. Revenues are impacted. Customers are impacted. Company reputation is affected.

So, do you need a disaster recovery plan?

Hardware fails, people do mistakes, and having a solution with no downtime it’s just impossible. How can you guarantee no downtime at all?
The requirements, the size, the complexity, and the level …

Nutanix AOS 5.17 release is out!! This release comes along with PC 5.17 and AHV 20190916.189.

Here is an overview of the key features and capabilities:

Note that the AOS 5.17 release is an STS version. More information about the difference between STS and LTS can be found here: Long Term Support (LTS) and Short Term Support (STS) Releases

Demo: AHV Sync Rep with PC 5.17 and AOS 5.17
The following demo shows how you can quickly set up …

The ability to perform day-2 operations from a single management pane can make life’s of IT administrators easier, especially with a platform that adapts an API First architecture strategy.

VMware vRO has a built-in REST plugin that allows you to perform REST operations and workflows that you can run directly from your vCenter.

In this quick post, we cover the integration between vRO and the Nutanix platform in order to automate the following actions:

Add a VM to an existing

This is a really short blogpost showing the integration between Nutanix Calm and HYCU.

What is Nutanix CALM?

• • Application lifecycle management: Allows you to provision and manage business applications across your infrastructure for both the private and public clouds, including Nutanix, VMware, AWS, GCP, and Azure.
  • For more information about Nutanix CALM: NUTANIX-CALM 

What is Nutanix HYCU?

• • Solution that provides backup and recovery capabilities. 
  • Focused on Hyperconverged platforms such as Nutanix.
  • Multi-cloud Data Protection: Nutanix, VMware, GCP, AWS,

Nutanix has announced a couple of new releases in April:

• Move 3.5.0 – move 3.5.0 release notes
• Foundation 4.5.3 – foundation 4.5.3 release notes
• Files 3.6.3 – files 3.6.3 release notes
• AOS 5.10.10 – aos 5.10.10 release notes
• LCM 2.3.1.15590 – lcm release notes
• ERA 1.2.1.1 – era 1.2.1.1 release notes
• Objects 2.0.1 – object 2.0.1 release notes

All new announcements can be found here: Announcements

Regarding Nutanix Move, there are a few new interesting features with the 3.5.0 release…

Life Cycle Manager (LCM) is a feature on AOS that tracks software and firmware versions of all entities in the cluster.

From Prism Element (PE) you can use LCM to update AHV, NCC, Foundation, BIOS, BMC, DATA Drives, HBA Controllers, SATADOMs and M.2 Drives, and for Prism Central, you can update Calm, Epsilon, Karbon, and Objects.

Today with LCM Version: 2.3.1.15590, we cannot do central inventory or upgrades PE components from Prism Central (PC), and to do that we need to connect on each PE.

So if you …

One of the reasons engineers tend to prefer automation over clicks is efficiency, especially if there are many days 2 operations and tasks that can be automated.

Through Prism Pro (PC pro), you can use the X-play feature to automate many routine tasks which can be achieved by creating Playbooks.

You can create playbooks based on the following triggers:

• Alert Trigger: Automatic playbook trigger when an alert is generated
• Manual Trigger: Manual trigger playbook with select an

NUTANIX CLUSTER CHECK (NCC) is a powerful tool that performs full cluster verification by executing many cheeks.  NCC can be run from the Prism console and for each execution, the ncc-output-lastest log will be generated and located on /home/nutanix/data/.

In this blog post, we will share a few quick tips on how to run the NCC Health Check on your CVM and collect the output directly on your desktop using PuTTY as the terminal.

STEP1: Change the Logging …