Deploy Windows 2022 on Nutanix AHV
What’s new in Windows 2022 Microsoft released the latest version of its flagship server operating system a few days ago. From the first look at release notes, you can see release was focused on...
Category: Microsoft
Migrate Windows from KVM to Nutanix AHV
In the past several posts I did cover migration scenarios from VMware vSphere, Microsoft Hyper-V, or Citrix XenServer. In upcoming weeks I will be posting how to migrate from KVM-based hypervisors like Redhat Hypervisor...
Adding a community repository to Chocolatey
Chocolatey is a software management solution for Windows operating system. You can install a new software package, upgrade it or remove it. All from the command line 🙂 . If you ever worked with...
Nutanix Move port diagram for migration from Hyper-V to Nutanix AHV
Nutanix Move supports migrations from many sources like Amazon AWS or VMware vSphere. No surprise, Microsoft Hyper-V is on the list too. Below you can find a diagram showing port requirements. If you are...
Working with Nutanix Metro Availability – part 3
Configure Nutanix Metro Availability Witness. What is Nutanix Metro Availability Witness? Extract from Nutanix official documentation: A “Witness” is a special VM that monitors the Metro Availability configuration health. The Witness resides in...
Migrating from Windows 10 to Linux Ubuntu
If you are fed up, as I am, with recent Microsoft’s Windows 10 updates rollouts probably you are looking around for Windows 10 alternative desktop system. There are few options out there like MacOS...
Migrate Windows 2003 to Nutanix AHV
My previous post – dated on mid-2016 – about a migration of Windows 2003 from VMware ESXi to Nutanix AHV, was mainly focused on manual migration. Back in 2016, there were no tools out...
Deploy Windows 2019 server on Nutanix AHV
Microsoft Windows Server 2019 is on the market for a few months. Some customers already started deploying Windows Server 2019 on Nutanix AHV. As of today (January 9’th 2019) Nutanix has not released official...
Missing driver on Windows 2016
For those using Windows Server 2016 on Nutanix AHV, the device manager shows a non-functioning device called “HID Button over Interrupt Driver”. This is apparently an issue with Windows (details in this thread: https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1377155)....
How to register Nutanix Cluster in Microsoft System Center Virtual Machine Manager
Nutanix Acropolis (AOS) supports Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2 since AOS 3.5 version (soon will be 4 years anniversary) and Microsoft Hyper-V 2016 is supported on AOS 5.5. Nutanix AOS can work on Hyper-V clusters connected...
