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Hello, 

we are currently evaluating Nutanix as an alternative to esxi. To get some hands on experience with the product we wanted to install it on one of our lab servers. However, I was not able to start Nutanix after the installation. 

For Installation, I followed the following Youtube tutrial as well as the installation procedure mentioned on the Nutanix documentation. 

 

I keep always stuck on the step where the cluster needs to be started. After installing and booting into AOS, I first run the command `cluster --cluster_function_list="one_node_cluster" --svm_ips= (CVM IP) create` in order to create a single node cluster as mentioned in the video. After executing the command, I only see the following output: 

Waiting on 10.100.23.102 (Up, ZeusLeader) to start:  SysStatCollector IkatProxy IkatControlPlane SSLTerminator SecureFileSync Medusa DynamicRingChanger Pithos InsightsDB Athena Mercury Mantle Stargate InsightsDataTransfer Ergon GoErgon Cerebro Chronos Curator Prism Hera CIM AlertManager Arithmos Catalog Acropolis Uhura NutanixGuestTools MinervaCVM ClusterConfig APLOSEngine APLOS PlacementSolver Lazan Polaris Delphi Security Flow Anduril XTrim ClusterHealth

After waiting some hours, nothing changed. I cannot open any webui or so. I really do not understand what I’m doing wrong here. Maybe some of you could help me. 

What version of Community Edition did you download and install, and what is the hardware that you are installing it on to?  Server Make/Model, Amount of RAM, Type of drives?

That video is very old and we’ve gone through a few versions, I’ll have to speak with the Nutanix University folks to have an updated version posted.

It may be easier to just reinstall, and instead of using the command in the video use this command to create your cluster:

cluster --redundancy_factor=1 -s <svm IP> create



 

Hi, 

sorry for my late reply. We are using a fairly standart HPE Proliant 360 Gen10 Server with I think 128GB of RAM. Currently there is only one 2TB SAS SSD Installed, on which I created multiple logical volumes using the integrated RAID Controller (each volume for each nutanix component). 

 

I will try to reinstall Nutanix and execute the command you provided. Thank you. 

 

There is a very good chance that by using logical volumes off of a single disk the cluster isn’t meeting the minimum performance requirements.   Remembering that Nutanix is a hyperconverged platform, it can be more I/O intensive than just a hypervisor.

Please install two more drives, and pass them through as raw devices, not as logical volumes on the same device.

Hi, 

thank you for your reply. I will try to install one additional drive for each component and try to install nutanix again. 

 

Best regards

Robin. 

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