A storage container is a defined subset of available storage within a storage pool. Storage Containers allow you to apply rules or transformations such as compression to a data set. Logical segmentation of SP containing groups of VM’s/files (vDisks). Typically have 1:1 mapping with datastore VMware Storage presented via NFS (default) or iSCSI AHV Storage…
The Health dashboard displays dynamically updated health information about VMs, hosts, and disks in the cluster. To view the Health dashboard, select Health from the pull-down list on the left of the main menu. Screen Details The Health dashboard is divided into three columns: The left column displays tabs for each entity type (VMs, hosts, disks, storage…
Configuring Alert Emails Prism Central allows you to configure the alert messages sent by Prism Central. To configure alert settings, reporting rules, and message templates, do the following: Configuring Alert Policies The system monitors a variety of conditions and sends an alert whenever one of the alert conditions is detected (when alerting is enabled). There…
Advanced Pages CVMIP/DNS:Port 2009: Stargate page to monitor backend storage Check QoS Queue and OpLog QoS queue (admitted/outstanding IO’s) Cache hit rates should be 80-90%+ if workload is ready heavy for best possible performance Check Avg Latency, Avg Op Size, Avg. Outstanding 2009/latency: Stargate page backend latency 2009/vdisk_stats: Stargate page histograms of I/O, latency, writes…
Prism currently supports integrations with the following authentication providers: Prism Element (PE) Local Active Directory LDAP Prism Central (PC) Local Active Directory LDAP SAML Authn (IDP)
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…
The web console is a graphical user interface (GUI) that allows you to monitor cluster operations and perform a variety of configuration tasks. Nutanix employs a license-based system to enable your entitled Nutanix features, and you can install or regenerate a license through the web console (see License Management). You can upgrade a cluster when…