Hello,
Newbie here. We are just moving off of VMware to Nutanix and have an issue. We use HPE OneView to manage bare metal servers that we have at various locations and is running in VMware but HPE tells us it’s not supported on the Nutanix hypervisor. We can’t be the only shop that has a OneView appliance and are moving to Nutanix from VMware. So I am reaching out to the community here in the hope that someone has been down this path and can point the best way forward to still use OneView.
Nutanix nodes should be considered appliances more than servers.
Managing and Updating Firmware/Drivers via OneView is not supported. Since Nutanix handles all of the LCM of the server end-to-end (including iLO firmware, all the system firmware, drive firmware, HBA firmware, NIC firmware, etc. etc.) making sure that it all is running versions that are qualified with the entire Nutanix stack, many customers do not integrate their Nutanix systems into OneView.
However, some customers will add their Nutanix clusters into OneView for visibility and reporting, just realize that you absolutely do NOT want to initiate any upgrades from the OneView console.
Thanks we use it to manage other servers. We are not using to update Nutanix firmware & drivers the appliance only runs on a hypervisor so we are wondering what people do. How do your other customers run OneView if Nutanix is not a supported hypervisor to un it on?
I’m sorry, I thought you were looking to manage the appliances FROM OneView.
I believe there is a KVM version of the OneView appliance that runs just fine on AHV.
Did you try to run OneView on Nutanix @WallaceF? If yes, did you deploy a KVM appliance on Nutanix on the same version as VMware and then just a backup/restore of OV settings?
we installed the KVM version. moved the licensing over then from the license key page and the migrated the servers from the new appliance under Servers>Migrate. It’s up and running, just not supported on Nutanix by HPE.
Interesting. Did you deploy the KVM version with the same version running on VMware? Or did you just go with the latest and greatest available version of OV?
same version. but it was the latest version as well. we upgraded the original VMware appliance to 9.10 and then installed that same numbered version for KVM.
I will try the same procedure. Thanks for the replies. :-)
We are moving to Nutanix with HPE at the moment. And I am thinking about OneView as well. Not for firmware upgrades, but for detailed monitoring of the hardware. Do we see a failing fan in Nutanix as well?
You should as long as it’s OneView supported HPE hardware.
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