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Hey there and welcome to the Nutanix Community! 🎉

I’m ​@ntnx_angelo , the community manager here, and part of what I love most about this space is watching people connect over projects, challenges, and cool ideas they’re building.

So, let’s break the ice a little—

👇 Tell us what you’re working on these days!

Whether you’re knee-deep in a massive infrastructure overhaul, automating your first workflow, or just getting your lab up and running—we want to hear about it!

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    • (Ex: I'm a solutions architect based in Germany, mostly working with mid-sized enterprises on hybrid cloud strategies.)
  • 🔧 What are you currently working on?
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  • 🙌 How can others in the community support or collaborate with you?
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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. 

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