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NX & DELL Product Mixing - cluster upgrade

  • 31 May 2021
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Hi All,

We have scheduled to perform a Nutanix Cluster upgrade.

Existing Setup:

3xDell XC730 XD-12 running on AHV 20170830.453 / AOS(5.15.3). This cluster is hosting around 50 VMs.

Upgrade to:
4* NX 8235 -G7-4215R -CM

Is it possible to add the 4*NX to existing cluster and then remove 3xDell XC servers. We are trying to achieve minimum downtime here without major outage.

Per Nutanix documentation https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Hardware-Admin-Ref-AOS-v5_17%3Ahar-product-mixing-restrictions-r.html , it seems mixing hardware isn't feasible. Could you please confirm if there is any work around possible?

Regards,

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Best answer by Sergei Ivanov 31 May 2021, 09:34

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It is completely unsupported to mix hardware of different vendors in the same cluster. You will need to build a new cluster out of the 4 NX nodes and then use a protection domain to migrate the VMs. The downtime eventually will be very short with the duration of just VMs restart.