Category: Nutanix HCI
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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: Nutanix HCI – 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 so if you break anything while learning you…
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Part 2.4: Nutanix HCI – 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: Nutanix HCI – 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: Nutanix HCI – Deploy, Update, and Configure a 3N 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 Community Edition 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…