Nutanix AHV is able to receive Link Layer Discovery Protocol (LLDP) and Cisco Discovery Protocol (CDP) from the upstream switches they are connected to. To receive LLDP/CDP information can run lld...

I needed to upgrade a small Splunk server from 7.1.2 to 7.3.2 on a CentOS7. Overall the process was fairly straightforward, below were my steps. When in doubt, follow the official documentation fro...

I had a customer ask if Hyper-Threading (HT) was enabled on their Nutanix AHV host. As of AOS 5.18 (Oct 2020) the HT status is not visible in Prism. You only see the actual cores on the host. To...

Here’s a quick script to check the network bandwidth/throughput on a Nutanix cluster. SSH into a Nutanix CVM and run: allssh ./diagnostics/diagnostics.py run_iperf This will loop through each CV...

Every now and then you’ll need to test connectivity on Nutanix CVM’s. For example, if you are setting up replication on Nutanix you’ll need TCP port 2020 open between the clusters. In Windows I wo...