I’m trying to understand the Acrpolis OS interaction with the other components, i know that Acrpolis OS is the data plan and Prism is the management plan. Also, AOS is installed as a CVM. But im still confused about Prism. So, is Prism part of AOS and run inside CVM, or it’s a separated component ?
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This is covered on Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals course (Modules 1 and 2), which can be taken online via Nutanix University. Please take a look as soon as you can (It helps a lot on getting a wide view of Nutanix platform).
HCI consists of two main components:
- Distributed Plane: The distributed plane runs across a cluster of nodes delivering storage, virtualization, and networking services for guest applications, whether they are VMs or container-based apps.
- Management Plane: The management plane lets you easily administer HCI resources from one place and one view and eliminates the need for separate management solutions for servers, storage networks, storage, and virtualization.
Prism: Is the management plane that provides a unified management interface that can generate actionable insights for optimizing virtualization, provides infrastructure management and everyday operations. It gives Nutanix administrators an easy way to manage and operate their end-to-end virtualized environments. Prism includes two software components: Prism Element (also called the Prism web console) and Prism Central.
Prism Element is a “service” running on all the CVM’s. One of them is elected as a leader, if you run a task that involves CVM or host reboot, another leader is elected on a different CVM (this no applies for single node clusters for obvious reasons). For example the cluster vip https://CLUSTER_VIP:9440 always connects you to Prism Leader wherever it is.
On the other hand Prism Central is also part of the “management plane” but it runs on a specific VM and comes in two flavours, depending on the size of your environment (1 or 3 VMs). It gives you a centralised management of all your clusters and also have Karbon, Calm, Flow, Leap and so son.
AOS: Is the base operating system that runs on each CVM. And yes Prism Element is built into AOS, for that reason when you upgrade your AOS version via LCM, Prism gets upgraded too. Is not managed as a separate component.
As said before, Prism Central is “independent” from AOS. It needs to be managed as a “separate component”, for example you need to update it “manually” through Prism Central LCM or One Click Upgrade. Usually, if required, when you are upgrading your cluster’s AOS version the first component to be upgraded is Prism Central.
Hope this clarify things a bit (or not! 
).
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Hi
This is covered on Nutanix Hybrid Cloud Fundamentals course (Modules 1 and 2), which can be taken online via Nutanix University. Please take a look as soon as you can (It helps a lot on getting a wide view of Nutanix platform).
HCI consists of two main components:
- Distributed Plane: The distributed plane runs across a cluster of nodes delivering storage, virtualization, and networking services for guest applications, whether they are VMs or container-based apps.
- Management Plane: The management plane lets you easily administer HCI resources from one place and one view and eliminates the need for separate management solutions for servers, storage networks, storage, and virtualization.
Prism: Is the management plane that provides a unified management interface that can generate actionable insights for optimizing virtualization, provides infrastructure management and everyday operations. It gives Nutanix administrators an easy way to manage and operate their end-to-end virtualized environments. Prism includes two software components: Prism Element (also called the Prism web console) and Prism Central.
Prism Element is a “service” running on all the CVM’s. One of them is elected as a leader, if you run a task that involves CVM or host reboot, another leader is elected on a different CVM (this no applies for single node clusters for obvious reasons). For example the cluster vip https://CLUSTER_VIP:9440 always connects you to Prism Leader wherever it is.
On the other hand Prism Central is also part of the “management plane” but it runs on a specific VM and comes in two flavours, depending on the size of your environment (1 or 3 VMs). It gives you a centralised management of all your clusters and also have Karbon, Calm, Flow, Leap and so son.
AOS: Is the base operating system that runs on each CVM. And yes Prism Element is built into AOS, for that reason when you upgrade your AOS version via LCM, Prism gets upgraded too. Is not managed as a separate component.
As said before, Prism Central is “independent” from AOS. It needs to be managed as a “separate component”, for example you need to update it “manually” through Prism Central LCM or One Click Upgrade. Usually, if required, when you are upgrading your cluster’s AOS version the first component to be upgraded is Prism Central.
Hope this clarify things a bit (or not! ).
Regards!
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