Category: virtualization
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Building a Nutanix CE HomeLab – Part II – Hardware Requirements
In Part I, we covered the basics of getting started with your Nutanix CE HomeLab. With our Nutanix account now created – we can start talking about hardware requirements. There are two ways to deploy Nutanix CE. Let’s quickly cover the ups/downs of each. Option 1 – Stand Alone Node. This is exactly what it…
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Building a Nutanix CE HomeLab – Part I – Getting Started
While there are a number of good YouTube videos and blog posts about building a Nutanix Community Edition HomeLab, I want to share my experience. In 2020 I built my first “dedicated” Nutanix CE HomeLab from discarded ZFS storage hosts. This lab, albeit completely overpowered for my use, allowed me to familiarize myself with the…
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Nutanix AOS 6.10 LTS Released
The next version of Nutanix’s Acropolis Operating System was released today. AOS 6.10 brings major feature improvements and performance boosts to customers still running the last LTS, AOS 6.5. Notable features: We’ve installed 6.10 in our lab and I’m happy to report that we’ve had no issues thus far. I will note – you NEED…
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Nutanix releases Community Edition 2.1 – Major Improvements!
Today Nutanix announced the latest release of its Community Edition Hypervisor, a packaged installer including AOS and AHV. CE 2.1 includes a number of improvements and new features derived from the production releases of AOS 6.6-6.8. Nutanix in the last 6 months has put a significant effort into revitalizing the free, community supported edition of…
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Broadcom ends free version of vSphere ESXi
Like many IT professionals, my first experience with Virtualization was thanks to the desktop hypervisor VMware Workstation. The ability to test different operating systems on my desktop opened a new world of appliances, linux distros, and emulated environments. I outgrew what my PC was capable of in just a matter of months. In researching what…