I have an older Lenovo ThinkStation PC running Intel Xeon W3540 cpu with 24GB of memory. Would I be able to install the latest version Nutanix CE onto that PC or is that doomed to fail. I would like to test out Nutanix since I will be working with Nutanix in the near future.
Thor.
+7Hi Thor,
You'll struggle with only 24GB of ram I'm afraid.
Can your box take more RAM?
Since the memory is DDR3 I have been unable to find larger memory sticks than 4Gb so I’m not sure. I’m trying to do this as cheap as possible and have managed to get most of the hardware for this PC free :) I’m not willing to spend to much money on this machine if I’m doomed because of to old CPU. Also, do I need to have 2 NICs in the machine if I am not going to have a cluster.
Thor.
+8Without a cluster (single node cluster, rf1) you cant do much with it. But 1 nic is enough. That will work.
Have installed or at least tried to install but not working. Can ssh into the server but these services fail to start so I guess my hardware is to old.
[root@NTNX-80cfde8a-A ~]# systemctl --failed
UNIT LOAD ACTIVE SUB DESCRIPTION
● ahv-define-cvm.service loaded failed failed Nutanix ahv cvm definition utility
● pressured.service loaded failed failed Memory pressure daemon
● set-energy-performance-bias.service loaded failed failed Service to set the X86 Energy Performance Bias and Energy Performance Preference to performance
● systemd-modules-load.service loaded failed failed Load Kernel Modules
+7Yeah the big one is I doubt you have a working CVM in virsh list --all because it itself wants 32gb of ram to play.
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