Community Edition is a diva... or I am too stupid.
This is now CE installation trial #5 or 6 or so.
Now this time I went with the official publication and ended up with a PE that doesn’t give me an option to install PC - not even showing AHV
Trying to install CE as a VM unter ESXi 7.0.u2 According to the manual I gave the H volume a drive on SSD (with 700GB as the prior trials to install PC always came up with a not enough resource error), for C of NVME 800GB and for D 2TB on the same NVMe
After primary deployment I went on with the cluster generation via SSH. End this time ending up with that.
The quality of that CE doesn’t really flash me.
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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:
Did you add the disk.EnableUUID parameter?
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.
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. 
