Scalability is the backbone of any industry solution, hence with ever-increasing workloads, it is natural for us to add new nodes in our existing infrastructure to make it scalable and highly efficient.
Nutanix provides a feature which allows you to add new nodes to your existing cluster and increase the cluster overall capacity.
A question lingering in our mind right now
Do we have some guidelines regarding cluster expansion?
Cluster expansion depends on the AOS version, hypervisor type (AHV, ESXi, Hyper-V, or Citrix Hypervisor), data-at-rest encryption status, and certain hardware configuration factors.
The following documents provides some basic guidelines specific for cluster expansion
Cluster Expansion