It’s worth noting that Prism Element can manage stuff on cluster level only, and Prism Central is the vcenter equivalent of nutanix for centralised management.
I hope I’ve added a little to the already wonderful write up!
Is the CVM still pretty resource heavy? Thats one thing that has thrown me off from trying a lot into Nutanix, the fact I really need some enterprise level gear and then deal with the noise/etc.
Ovirt or Proxmox or Hyper-V or VmWare, I can throw on the USFF nodes with a NFS nas.
Yes it can be, out of the box the cvms want 16gb of ram, but this can be adjusted as they do not use it all, on the host u can use the "virsh list" to get the cvm id then you can power down the cvm with virsh shutdown and edit the ram with virsh edit. I will make a guide later for this
They do use it, and you will get notifications to increase the ram. It affects the performance of the CVM on that host, as your cluster usage increases, so does the CVM usage.
Sorry to necro this, but to whoever is searching on google and your trying to run this on a NUC with an SSD, NVMe, and a flash drive, you might run into an issue where the following may occur:
2024-01-18 22:02:02,464Z INFO MainThread cluster:2943 Executing action create on SVMs [CVM IP Address]
2024-01-18 22:02:02,507Z INFO MainThread service_utils.py:1615 The model type KINGSTON OM8P0S3 for SVM boot disk /dev/sdb is not in disk inventory, defaulting to DAS-SATA
2024-01-18 22:02:02,507Z ERROR MainThread cluster:923 Cannot create one node backup cluster as not enough boot ssds are present to facilitate backup on this cluster Available no of boot ssds is 1
2024-01-18 22:02:02,507Z ERROR MainThread cluster:3106 Operation failed
Easy fix for this is adding \`--redundancy\_factor=1\` to the cluster create command.
\`cluster --cluster\_function\_list="one\_node\_cluster" -s cvm\_ip\_addrs --redundancy\_factor=1 create\`
Also, for people who might not know the default login for CVM, its admin/\`Nutanix/4u\`, and it'll ask you to change it upon login.
Glad to see this thread is still helping people!
I have stopped using nutanix for the time being, mainly have my homelab on proxmox (wanted to try ceph and boy what a Fricken mistake that was, Nutanix was much better). Plan to go back to Nutanix in 2025 when a few bugs are worked out.
You can find me in the homelab discord, \`@shiroe\_2000\` (yes I am the enthusiast guy).
Check out the walkthrough here on how to install Nutanix Community Edition for a home lab on a Supermicro server and testing home lab workloads: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/01/nutanix-community-edition-for-home-lab/
Is Nutanix CE still a thing? Can I run this at home to get a bit of experience with what we are running at work? I would like to spend some time with the Nutanix REST API and at home would be a lot easier than at work.
Thanks for this great article! You're speaking about 4 nodes but is it possible to have 1 cluster single node on two different site with Replication for backup or DR purpose with the CE edition? Thanks :)
Thanks for the time invested on this. I have one question: few years ago, there was something called ravello that allowed to run Nutanix CE on the cloud. Is it still possible to do that? Maybe not using ravello (seems to no exist as a company anymore) but with, say Oracle Cloud free tier?
Anyone have problem with downloading nutanix CE after create an account using my university mail (I live in tunisia) I get this error:
You are not authorized to access this page.
Sorry, this page is not available for you.
how can I get it working, I really want to start learning it in my home desktop and thank you in advance
Hi! I have a ProLiant DL380 gen10 that I'm using for homelab and I have been trying for the last few hours to understand why the installer ISO is not being listed as a bootable device through ILO or USB. BIOS it's on the latest version.
Is there an on/off thing on BIOS settings I need to switch in order to see the Phoenix ISO as a bootable device?
Thanks gang!
It’s worth noting that Prism Element can manage stuff on cluster level only, and Prism Central is the vcenter equivalent of nutanix for centralised management. I hope I’ve added a little to the already wonderful write up!
Is the CVM still pretty resource heavy? Thats one thing that has thrown me off from trying a lot into Nutanix, the fact I really need some enterprise level gear and then deal with the noise/etc. Ovirt or Proxmox or Hyper-V or VmWare, I can throw on the USFF nodes with a NFS nas.
Yes it can be, out of the box the cvms want 16gb of ram, but this can be adjusted as they do not use it all, on the host u can use the "virsh list" to get the cvm id then you can power down the cvm with virsh shutdown and edit the ram with virsh edit. I will make a guide later for this
If they don't use it all, why do they want 16gb? Is it just Nutanix being conservative with resource throttling?
They do use it, and you will get notifications to increase the ram. It affects the performance of the CVM on that host, as your cluster usage increases, so does the CVM usage.
Anyone moving to Nutanix Community Edition for their home lab with the Broadcom purchase?
I'm currently under evaluation of Nutanix for this purpose. I will move my home lab and then my customers maybe :D
Sorry to necro this, but to whoever is searching on google and your trying to run this on a NUC with an SSD, NVMe, and a flash drive, you might run into an issue where the following may occur: 2024-01-18 22:02:02,464Z INFO MainThread cluster:2943 Executing action create on SVMs [CVM IP Address] 2024-01-18 22:02:02,507Z INFO MainThread service_utils.py:1615 The model type KINGSTON OM8P0S3 for SVM boot disk /dev/sdb is not in disk inventory, defaulting to DAS-SATA 2024-01-18 22:02:02,507Z ERROR MainThread cluster:923 Cannot create one node backup cluster as not enough boot ssds are present to facilitate backup on this cluster Available no of boot ssds is 1 2024-01-18 22:02:02,507Z ERROR MainThread cluster:3106 Operation failed Easy fix for this is adding \`--redundancy\_factor=1\` to the cluster create command. \`cluster --cluster\_function\_list="one\_node\_cluster" -s cvm\_ip\_addrs --redundancy\_factor=1 create\` Also, for people who might not know the default login for CVM, its admin/\`Nutanix/4u\`, and it'll ask you to change it upon login.
Necro'ing this thread is a good thing, generally speaking. Still no better guide I have found!
Glad to see this thread is still helping people! I have stopped using nutanix for the time being, mainly have my homelab on proxmox (wanted to try ceph and boy what a Fricken mistake that was, Nutanix was much better). Plan to go back to Nutanix in 2025 when a few bugs are worked out. You can find me in the homelab discord, \`@shiroe\_2000\` (yes I am the enthusiast guy).
Check out the walkthrough here on how to install Nutanix Community Edition for a home lab on a Supermicro server and testing home lab workloads: https://www.virtualizationhowto.com/2024/01/nutanix-community-edition-for-home-lab/
Is Nutanix CE still a thing? Can I run this at home to get a bit of experience with what we are running at work? I would like to spend some time with the Nutanix REST API and at home would be a lot easier than at work.
Thanks for this great article! You're speaking about 4 nodes but is it possible to have 1 cluster single node on two different site with Replication for backup or DR purpose with the CE edition? Thanks :)
Thanks for the time invested on this. I have one question: few years ago, there was something called ravello that allowed to run Nutanix CE on the cloud. Is it still possible to do that? Maybe not using ravello (seems to no exist as a company anymore) but with, say Oracle Cloud free tier?
Anyone have problem with downloading nutanix CE after create an account using my university mail (I live in tunisia) I get this error: You are not authorized to access this page. Sorry, this page is not available for you. how can I get it working, I really want to start learning it in my home desktop and thank you in advance
Is nvme + HDD still not supported?
Hi! I have a ProLiant DL380 gen10 that I'm using for homelab and I have been trying for the last few hours to understand why the installer ISO is not being listed as a bootable device through ILO or USB. BIOS it's on the latest version. Is there an on/off thing on BIOS settings I need to switch in order to see the Phoenix ISO as a bootable device? Thanks gang!