Community Edition is a diva... or I am too stupid.

Can you show me your complete vm setup? (so the complete specs of your ESX virtual machine which runs CE)

CE is not comparable with the commercial version and will only succeed if underlying hardware is fast enough. (Nested installs are always VERY slow and should be avoided if possible)

Sure - thx 4 reacting! Appreciated!!

VM: 

Host: 
 

Can I provide anything else?

Thanks but can you show more settings about the cpu, disks and network card?  (from the virtual machine)

VM ntnx01: 

 

Host: 

Can I deliver anything else? 

Regards! 

Got it. 

Questions:

1. Did you add the disk.EnableUUID parameter?
2. Are you running in BIOS mode? (Best compatibility)

But ;)

You have 12 cores in 1 socket. The CVM will be sized with 12 vCPU ;) Can you change that to 2 sockets with 6 cores each? (This requires a re installation of the node) So the cvm will get 6 vCPU and not all resources are given to the CVM. 

Yes and yes.

 

I am already running a new installation trial ntnx02: 

 Not that I am expecting much in terms of successful PC deployment as I already tried before with 2 Sockets with each 12 cores. 

But anyway - I’ll report the outcome. 

Regards! 

PC comes later ;) First you need to have a normal cluster correctly running. 

I had a simple cluster already, all in green.
Even one with 3 nodes.

But never lucky with the PC - but without that the cluster and the Nutanix installation doesn’t make too much sense for me. 

Regards! 

Normal clusters (So the production/commercial ones) are installed via a tool named Nutanix Foundation. This will do all heavy lifting for you. Just will in a wizard and foundation will do it all ;) 

I am not in the situation to buy a commercial solution, neither NX or any other. 
Just need to gain some experience going for certification as theory is one thing, practical usage another. 

Thus said I know what Foundation is/means in terms of Nutanix but I do not see a way to get the real stuff. 

btw new installation just finished, CVM now pingable over the public IP. 
Report more soon. 

Regards! 

And again - that doesn’t work, same problem.
Giving up, not worth the time and effort. 

I just created a video how to do it ;) If you wanna give it one more go. If it is not working at all for you there must be something configured on the VMware environment which is causing this: 

Did exactly what U recoomended in your video. 
Even used another host.

Downloaded the image freshly,
MD5 check is fine. 

That is the disappointing outcome: no info about the Hypervisor in PE. First the Health was green, after initiating PC download and install it turned red (the usual thing: default pw on CVM and host) 

Download of PC was ok, but it is not startable 

I really wonder if someone installed the CE successfully on anything else but Supermicro NX hardware. 

Regards!

You can see on the first screenshot that the cluster is not correct. As you dont see the ahv version in the widgets and there is nog cpu and memory information available as well. So bedore deploying prism central you should always make sure that the cluster zelf is working correctly. When you did the exact steps and you still are facing this then there must be something specific configured at the vmware site. 
 

And yes, many peao are running nested in vmware on other hardware then nx (supermicro). Even I installed it on other hardware. 

Jeroen, I am well aware that the first screenshot doesn’t show the AHV - while the second DOES show AHV! Reason unknown while the ESXi otherwise doen’t show any issues with ordinary VMs. 

I am considering maybe buying some refurbished NX G6 block. 

Guess there is a population order for SSDs/HDDs - is there some information about that available somewhere? 

Get 2 SSD's (identiacl) in it (in the front) per node and you should be good to go. I think this is the best option to get a proper cluster for learning and training. This will work as it should be (and I think that is a barging, nice price). Als make sure the m2 drives are in it as wll. The m2 drives are used for booting AHV. 

These will work:

1.92TB MZ7LH1T9HMLT

960GB MZ7KM960HMJP

Found something interesting in your video: 

your CE installation says Hypervisor installation is finished after 840 out of 2430: 

Mine said 961/2430: 

is that just caused by the different hardware? 

Are you using the same image like me: phoenix.x86_64-fnd_5.6.1_patch-aos_6.8.1_ga.iso

Regards!

Yes those are the seconds needed (the 2430 is the timeout limit). Looks like mine is a bit faster. 

ahhh, ok, I thought it would be packages or so. 

My bad. 

Regards!

Maybe you can give me more input on the M2 riser card for NX-3060-G6 Jeroen: 

as each of the nodes has 2 M2 slots: are those only for the AHV (Raid?) or for AHV and CVM to install? 

Regards!