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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…
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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…
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Base Lab Setup Part 1.5: Setup Linux Jump/Workstation VM
Since I will also be exploring many KVM based hypervisors like OpenShift Virtualization, Nutanix AHV, SUSE Virtualization, etc I am also going to set up a Linux based Jump server as my main lab workstation. This section will walk through installing Alma Linux 10 inside of a Proxmox VM and…
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Base Lab Setup Part 1.4: Setup Windows AD/DNS/Workstation VM
Before deploying nested hypervisor clusters you are going need a DNS server to provide hostname resolution. If you are going to be exploring Hyper-V like I am you will also want a basic AD server and a place to run the Windows specific admin tools. For my lab I am…
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Base Lab Setup Part 1.3: Hypervisor Setup for Nesting
In this section I will review how I set up Proxmox on my R740 to be my base hypervisor that will run the nested environments later. In this section I will install Proxmox, setup the Proxmox networking, and setup the Proxmox storage to be ready for VM workloads. I ended…
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Base Lab Setup Part 1.2: Network Hardware and Configuration
In this section I will review the physical networking my R740 is plugged into, what network features you will need for nested hypervisors, and how specifically I have configured my lab network. For my lab networking I will be using 1x 1G and 1x 10G from my server for connectivity,…
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Lab Hardware Part 1.1: Server Hardware and Configuration
Since the goal of my home lab is to learn about multiple different hypervisors, and be able to run at least two different hypervisors at the same time for testing, I am using older server grade hardware instead of the more commonly used desktop hardware found in a homelabs for…