Author: Lotfi

AOS 7.6 and Prism Central 7.6 both landed on 27 July 2026. Skim the highlights and it looks like a capacity bump with some dashboard work attached. Spend longer with it and it’s more than that — the density numbers change how you size a cluster, the external storage work changes who Nutanix competes with, […]

Nutanix has taken SP Central to general availability. If you run infrastructure for a single organisation it probably won’t change your week. If you run infrastructure for other people — as a hoster, an MSP, a telco cloud arm — it’s the most interesting thing Nutanix has shipped this year. Here’s what it is, what […]

Most of what gets written about a new AOS release is a feature list. That’s useful once, when you’re deciding whether to care. It’s much less useful when you’re the person who has to schedule the maintenance window, tell the customer what breaks, and justify why the cluster needs touching at all this quarter. So […]

Kubernetes won the container orchestration argument some time ago. That’s settled. What isn’t settled — and what comes up constantly on migration projects — is what you do when the Kubernetes platform you’re already running is no longer the one you want to be on. Nutanix ran a session on exactly this as part of […]

Creating a VM on AHV, installing a guest OS on it and then enabling Nutanix Guest Tools is one of those end-to-end tasks that comes up on nearly every engagement. It’s straightforward once you’ve done it a few times, but there are a couple of places where the order of operations matters — particularly attaching […]

Nutanix’s native Data Protection lets you group VMs into a Protection Domain and take scheduled local (and optionally remote) snapshots of them, without needing a third-party backup product. On a recent engagement we set up a second protection domain on a cluster that already had one running, to put a different set of VMs on […]

Nutanix Flow is the microsegmentation and network security layer built into AHV — it lets you write intent-based security policies between VMs and application tiers instead of relying on VLAN-level firewalling. Before any of that is usable, though, two things have to be switched on in Prism Central: the Network Controller, and Microsegmentation itself. On […]

Prism Central (PC) is Nutanix’s multi-cluster management plane — it sits above one or more Prism Element clusters and adds fleet-wide dashboards, role-based access, capacity planning, and the automation and lifecycle tooling that Prism Element alone doesn’t provide. On a recent engagement we deployed a new Prism Central instance straight from an existing Prism Element […]

Nutanix Move is the free appliance Nutanix ships for migrating virtual machines onto AHV with minimal downtime — handling disk seeding, guest OS preparation and the final cutover in one workflow instead of a manual export/import process. In a recent engagement we used Move to migrate a batch of production VMs from a VMware ESXi/vCenter […]

NGT 4.6 takes some friction out of guest VM management. You can configure Nutanix Guest Tools on supported VMs without mounting a CD-ROM, and individual files can be restored directly to AHV VMs through the v4 APIs instead of recovering a whole machine. NGT server certificates now renew themselves before expiry, installation is more reliable […]

Move 6.3 is the biggest of this batch, widening both where you can migrate to and what you can bring along. New destinations include Projects 2.0 (with security policies migrating alongside the VMs) and Nutanix Government Cloud Clusters on AWS GovCloud, while zero-copy ESXi to AHV migration arrives for supported external storage, now including Dell […]

Files 5.4 leans on security and cloud flexibility. Azure Trusted Launch protects cloud-based file servers with a hardware root of trust, NFS shares can be encrypted with TLS and mTLS certificate authentication without dragging Active Directory into it, and AMD-based VMs are now supported on both AWS and Azure. Administrators can restrict command-line access to […]