After some time trying and playing around with the Nutanix CE in Nested mode in my lab,
I finally put my hands into a little monster able to handle a Single Node Cluster, My Supermicro E300-9D!
Im going to show you the process of Installation, cluster (Single node) creation, in future posts, we will continue seeing new stuff, step by step.
Let’s get started:
First of all, as we already know, lets download the Nutanix CE from the community portal, to do so, you must be registered, and after installation, you will need your restoration to make it work properly.
after downloading the CE ISO, lets boot from the ISO and get started…
I havee 3 disks, Boot, CVM and Data, choose the ones you would like to use, and then,
configure the IP Details as shown,
You need 1 IP for the AHV Host, One for the CVM, gateway and subnet mask.
Now, is time to remove the boot media, answer with a Y, and continue…
Now, after the first boot of the server,
we are going to ssh to the AHV host, with the IP we setup earlier
username: root
password: nutanix/4u
then, from the AHV host, we are going to ssh to the CVM to the IP we also setup earlier,
in this case
username: nutanix
password: nutanix/4u
Now, we are into the CVM via ssh, its time to create the Cluster,
in this case, Single node cluster
the command I used is the following:
cluster -s <CVM IP> —-redundancy_factor_1 —-dns_server 1.1.1.1 creat
Now, the cluster has been created successfully, lets see the server console.
Now, lets connect to the web UI to continue working on our new cluster
to connect, we will use the CVM IP Address and the port 9440
Default password: nutanix/4u
Done!
Here is our beautiful WebUI of our Nutanix CE Single Node Cluster!!
I hope you like it,
this setup is in a physical server,
Supermicro E300-9D, 128GB RAM, 3 SSD disks.
In the next entry, initial config and run.
cheers!
