G6 Hardware EOL (Licensing) Best Practice When Removing From Your Cluster | Nutanix Community
Skip to main content

G6 Hardware EOL (Licensing) Best Practice When Removing From Your Cluster


Stephen Smith
Nutanix Employee

Hey all you fantastic Nutanix enthusiasts out there!!    🤓

Wanted to bring up a dynamic we are seeing recently with the G6 hardware family going away soon, getting decommissioned and replaced in the field.   

In the case where your applied G6 licenses have expired, your cluster will of course get some notifications but also the “Expand Cluster” button will be greyed out.   🤔

This would obviously be an issue for someone working on adding their new G9 nodes to the cluster to then proceed with any data migrations or configurations needed to decommission the G6s.   

The best practice here is to fully remove all licenses from the cluster in question and then complete any and all node changes, upgrades and updates. Any restrictions imposed by the expired licenses will have ceased so this should proceed as expected. 😊

 Once the cluster is in it’s final state, this is a perfect time to run through the licensing workflow and apply the appropriate licensing again. 

Even if all you are doing is shutting down an old cluster without the new hardware expansion, it is part of the decommission process to remove all licensing before the process will complete. 

 

 Hope this makes sense.  🕺🏻

 

Feel free as always to open a support case with any licensing questions or find us here in the community.                                               Support portal 

Thanks,

-SS

0 replies

Be the first to reply!

Reply