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Hi Angelo,

We’re currently in the middle of building out an “Air-gapped”  PoC that integrates domain-specific AI agents into our Nutanix infrastructure workflows, specifically the “Nutanix Design Assistant” and I wanted to share what we’re aiming to achieve and see if anyone’s already gone down a similar path.

The goal is to improve daily operations and incident response (amoungst others), reduce time-to-resolution, and help our operations teams work more efficiently across Nutanix AHV clusters and Prism Central.

What we’re currently targeting:

• Faster Triage
  Use AI to analyze alert data, logs, and NCC output to prioritize incidents and highlight probable causes before a human even gets involved.
• Guided Resolution Paths
  AI suggests steps based on Nutanix KBs, internal SOPs, and historical incidents. Ideal for L1/L2 engineers who might not have deep Nutanix experience.
• Command and Script Recommendations
  Depending on whether it’s AHV or ESXi, the AI will suggest the right CLI commands or scripts based on the incident context. Helps eliminate trial-and-error.
• Consistent Documentation
  AI-generated summaries of the incident and resolution steps could be fed back into ServiceNow (or similar) for cleaner ticketing and audit trails.
• Reduced Escalation Overhead
  Long-term goal is to resolve more incidents at the first level with AI-backed guidance, so senior engineers can focus on actual engineering work.
• Automated Design Validation
  This is a big one we’re training the AI to validate environment designs and implementation plans against Nutanix best practices, supported hardware specs, and vendor reference architectures. The goal is to reduce the back-and-forth during peer reviews and catch issues before deployment.

It’s still early in the build, but the PoC architecture includes a GPU enabled Nutanix AHV Cluster, RHEL-based VMs running Ollama, LLaMA 3 models, FAISS for vector search, and Open WebUI for interaction. Each AI agent is scoped to a specific operational domain (Nutanix, NetApp, Commvault, Microsoft, etc.).

The Nutanix Design Assistant is also available in the public domain (openai framework), the PoC however is fully offline and uses offline Nutanix documentation, behavioural instruction sets and API integration for Prism Central…

If anyone’s experimenting with something similar, especially in regulated or air-gapped environments, I’d be interested in comparing notes.

Cheers,
John

Thanks for sharing ​@Jagoulden sounds like you have your hands full. Hope to learn more about it over the next few months. 

Hi Angelo,

I’m new to Nutanix in terms of usage, I’ve heard of Nutanix but never used it before, and, having had a few job applications requiring Nutanix, it’s obviously a very useful skillset to have.

• Where are you based, and what do you do?
  • I’m a well seasoned British IT professional at team lead/architect level with over 25 years experience of more technologies than I can count.
• 🔧 What are you currently working on?
  • My company is potentially looking to implement 2 Nutanix clusters in different areas and I decided, in anticipation, to learn Nutanix and become certified, I have already passed the NCA610 exam and I am now looking to become NCP610 certified and will hopefully get to work on the upcoming project, if it’s approved. Luckily, I work with a Nutanix expert so I will be able to leverage knowledge from that person.
• 🎯 Bonus: What’s a tech (or non-tech!) goal you have this year?
  • Tech goal is, as mentioned, to achieve the NCP610 certification.
  • Non-tech goal is to get fitter and healthier and lose the weight that’s piled on, which is so typical for so many techies!!

Sounds exciting ​@AndrewGallagher Please keep me posted on progress 👍🏻

Hope to see you at Nutanix .NEXT in Chicago next year. 

Thanks ​@ntnx_angelo, will do! Exciting times if it goes ahead as I love to get stuck into new technologies (well, new for me!!).

If allowed, I’d love to go to Nutanix .NEXT in Chicago next year. We will see!

Hi everyone! 👋 I'm Yassine, an IT Consultant based in France. I work extensively with Nutanix environments, focusing on optimization, capacity planning, and security audits for various clients.

I've been developing a free, community-driven tool called **NPCAtool (Nutanix Prism Central Audit Tool)**.
It's a standalone Windows application that automates the auditing process for Prism Central.
Instead of manually clicking through menus to gather data, this tool connects to your PC (or multiple PCs) and generates a comprehensive **Excel Report** in minutes.

It covers:
*   ✅ **Inventory**: VMs, Clusters, Hosts, Images, Subnets.
*   ✅ **Capacity**: Advanced "Storage Effective" calculations (using Prism Capacity API).
*   ✅ **Security**: Quick check of security compliance (Banner, SSH, SNMP settings).
*   ✅ **Performance**: Cluster IOPS, Bandwidth, and Latency metrics.

The biggest challenge is diversity 🤯! Every Nutanix environment is unique (different AOS/PC versions, different scales).
I've tested it on my labs and client environments (v3/v4 APIs), but I want to ensure it's robust across the board.

I'm looking for **beta testers**! 🙌🚀
If you have a Prism Central environment (Lab or Staging recommended) and 5 minutes to spare, I'd love for you to try the tool and let me know if it works smoothly for you.

*   **It's safe**: The tool runs locally on your machine. No data is sent to the cloud/internet.
*   **It's free**: Just a passion project to help the community.

You can download it here: https://github.com/Yachize/NPCAtool/releases/tag/v2.0

To make this tool the "Swiss Army Knife" for Nutanix admins, saving us all hours of manual reporting time! And maybe finally mastering Kubernetes on AHV. 😅

Let me know what you think!
Cheers,
Yassine

Cool, thanks for sharing ​@Yachize will check it out

Quick update — the download link in my original post was incorrectly formatted (it added http://https// automatically).

Here is the correct link : https://github.com/Yachize/NPCAtool/releases/tag/v2.0