Category: Nested Hypervisors
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Part 3.2: Deploy and Configure Foundation Central
In this post we will deploy Foundation Central onto our Proxmox host along side the three AHV VMs we created in the last post. We will then configure it to the point where we can use it to create our external storage based Nutanix cluster in the next post. Upload…
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Part 3.1: Nutanix w/External Storage – Planning
In this section I will review the prep work I did in my lab to get ready to deploy the Nutanix Cloud Platform into three nested VMs as a compute only based cluster on Proxmox, instead of three physical servers. Unlike in Part 2 where we used HCI storage for…
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Part 2.6: Setup Basic Prism Central Disaster Recovery
In this post we will perform basic setup of Prism Central Disaster Recovery, protect one of the VMs we V2V’ed earlier in the series from our VMware environment, and perform a test restore to confirm everything is working. Since I am just using evaluation software with no licensing I wont…
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Part 2.5: Shutdown, Snap, and Start Back Up the Nutanix Cluster
After going through all the work to setup the AHV cluster, Nutanix Move, and Prism Central now is a good time to go through the process to shut down everything cleanly, snapshot it in Proxmox, and then power it all back up. This way you have a rollback point with…
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Part 2.4: Deploy and Configure Prism Central
In this section we will deploy a Nutanix Prism Central VM onto our AHV cluster since Prism Central is the multi-cluster manager similar in some ways to vCenter. It will also run as a double nested VM in this scenario, but if you do have problems you can deploy it…
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Part 2.3: Deploy Nutanix Move and Migrate VMs to AHV
In this section we will deploy a Nutanix Move VM onto our AHV cluster, so it will run as a double nested VM in this scenario: Then we will use Move to perform V2V migrations of the ESXi based Linux and Windows VMs we created in Part1: Keep in mind…
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Part 2.2: Deploy, Update, and Configure a 3N Nutanix HCI Cluster
In this section we will install Nutanix CE into each Proxmox VM, build the Nutanix cluster, update the Nutanix cluster to the latest code, configure the cluster networking, change all the system passwords, create a lab storage container, and upload some ISOs so that our cluster is VM ready. Here…
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Part 2.1: Nutanix HCI – Planning
In this section I will review the prep work I did in my lab to get ready to deploy the Nutanix Cloud Platform into three nested VMs as a HCI based cluster on Proxmox instead of three physical servers. In part 3 I will go over deploying a Nutanix Cluster…
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Base Lab Setup Part 1.6: Deploy a Nested vSphere 8 Environment
Part of experimenting with a different hypervisor is trying out that hypervisors built-in migration tools to bring VMs over from ESXi to the new hypervisor. In order to try that out in our lab we need to have a minimal vSphere environment stood up, so in this section I will…