Can ESXi hosts upgrade via Commandline on Nutanix?
Well, this is thoroughly a fun pet experiment - just to tinker around and see what breaks :-) Should you be trying this on a prod cluster? Holy !@#$ no!…
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Single node Cassandra on Ubuntu 18.10
Nutanix uses Cassandra as it's metadata store. But what if we needed a Cassandra node locally - on our local machine - Cassandra, essentially, is an OpenSource project, so technically,…
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Creating Multiple VMs using Terraform – Nutanix Provider
Building on the previous example, let's use Terraform to create multiple VM's using just one Terraform file/configuration. Let's take the previous example's tf file and check the options available $…
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Terraform using Nutanix Provider and V3 APIs
Below is an example of creating a basic VM (CentOS) on a Nutanix cluster using Terraform Points to note: Cluster is already UP and running AHVCentOS image is already present…
Workaround for a locked “root” account on ESXi 6.5 on Nutanix
The ESXi 6.x root account now has account lockout policies set. So if an incorrect password is used too many times, this will case the ESXi root password to get…
