Prism Central Coming Soon PowerShell cmdlets Sign in to the Nutanix web console. Click the user icon in the upper-right corner of the web console and select Download Cmdlets Installer. After the installer completes downloading, double-click the installer and follow the prompts. The cmdlets are installed and a desktop shortcut NutanixCmdlets is created. Double-click the…
Pulse After you have completed initial setup, created a cluster, and opened ports 80 or 8443 in your firewall, each cluster sends a Pulse message once every 24 hours to a Nutanix Support server by default. Each message includes cluster configuration and health status that can be used by Nutanix Support to address any cluster…
Interfaces HTML5 UI, REST API, CLI, PowerShell CMDlets, etc. Management Policy definition and compliance, service design and status, analytics and monitoring
Cassandra Distributed metadata store, based on heavily modified Apache Cassandra Stores/manages all metadata in ring-like manner Metadata describes where and how data is stored on a filesystem Let’s system know which node/disk and in what form the data resides Runs on every node in the cluster Accessed via Medusa RF used to maintain availability/redundancy Upon…
Acropolis Acropolis is a distributed multi-resource manager, orchestration platform and data plane. It is broken down into the following three main components: Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) This is at the core and birth of the Nutanix platform and expands upon the Nutanix Distributed Filesystem (NDFS). NDFS has now evolved from a distributed system pooling storage…
I have always been a fan of leveraging community resources when studying for certification exams. The VCAP study guides here, and here were invaluable when I was studying for those exams. When I began preparing for the Nutanix NCP, I was a little bummed out when I couldn’t find any community resources like these. I…
Hardware components (nodes and disks) can be removed from a cluster or reconfigured in other ways when conditions warrant it. Note: If the Data-at-Rest Encryption is enabled then before removing a drive or node from a cluster, test the certificates again by clicking Test all nodes and ensure that testing is successful and the status is Verified. In…
Start Node VMware Using the vSphere client, take the ESXi hosts out of maintenance mode Power On the CVM SSH into the CVM, and issue the following command: ncli cluster status | grep -A 15 cvm_ip_addr Validate that the datastores, are available and connected to all hosts within the cluster Stop Node VMware GUI Using…