Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Unify all your Private and Public Clouds

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ThiruppathirajAdventurer
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AOS 6 LTS release date

Hi Team,Does anyone know when AOS 6 LTS version will available? On Prism or support portal.

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2 years ago
dlink7
dlink7Moderator
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Networking in Azure - hybridcloud

 Nutanix’s support for bare-metal is getting close. Please take a look at some of the foundational components for networking in Azure.NCM (Nutanix Clusters on Azure) utilizes Flow Networking to create an overlay network in Azure to ease administration for Nutanix administrators and reduce networking constraints across Cloud vendors.  Flow Networking is used to abstract the Azure native network by creating overlay virtual networks. On the one hand this abstracts the underlying network in Azure, while at the same time, it allows the network substrate (and its associated features and functionalities) to be consistent with the customer’s on-premise Nutanix deployments.You will be able to create new virtual networks (called Virtual Private Clouds or VPCs) within Nutanix, subnets in any address range, including those from the RFC1918 (private) address space and define DHCP, NAT, routing, and security policy right from the familiar Prism Central interface.Flow networking can mask or reduce Cl

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dlink7
2 years ago
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Johan_HelmiScout
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Cascade Lake vs Ice Lake

So i’ve been going through Google searches to find an answer whether Cascade Lake vs Ice Lake can coexist within the same cluster. Unfortunately no luck. So i hope this forum can help me answer this question.My concern is that i was made to understand that Cascade Lake and Ice Lake CPU architecture is different, thus that may pose a performance problems to VM even if the nodes can coexist within the cluster.So the question is, can NX-G7 and NX-G8, which will run on different CPU archtiecture coexist within the same cluster and will it cause any performance issues if this is possible?It would help if you can point me to a KB article or any article for that matter to explain this.Thank you in advance for the help……..

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dlink7
2 years ago
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joseparedespyExplorer
asked in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

AHV/CVM console access from Cluster demo.nutanix.com

Hello Nutanix community!I have a question about the ability to access the AHV/CVM console from https://demo.nutanix.com/Is the experience limited to the Prism GUI or can we also access the cluster console?Thanks

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
roncoejrNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Data Protection to the Power of Public Cloud

Since its inception; the Nutanix platform has offered customers a robust set of data protection technologies.  Many of our customers leverage these capabilities as a part of their DR strategy.Now, with the advent of Nutanix Clusters (on AWS bare metal today) extending the capabilities enabled by the data protection suite to the public cloud is now a reality.  Nutanix Clusters on AWS deploys the Nutanix HCI stack onto AWS bare metal instances.  Provisioned via a customer portal customers can have a public cloud resident Nutanix Cluster operational in very short order.At which point they’re ready to leverage the public cloud as a part of their DR strategy; while maintaining a familiar operator experience: 

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
dlink7
dlink7Moderator
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Elastic DR with AWS (X-play and Clusters Portal API)

I make no bones about it, bare-metal nodes in AWS is pricey. The questions becomes if we want to save money and have DR with AWS, how do keep the number of nodes small until we failover?In AWS all the Nutanix rules still apply. We need a minimum of a three-node cluster to get started. If we have enough storage capacity, we can keep accepting replications from an on-prem cluster and not worry about CPU and memory constraints. You could also use your on-prem AHV supported backup software to backup directly to S3. Then when you have an outage, you could quickly build a Nutanix Cluster in AWS and start restoring the data to that cluster.DR on the skinnyI was a asked to automate the process of adding nodes to a small Nutanix Cluster in AWS and then start a failover using Leap (DR runbooks) and X-play(automates actions based of events and alerts) in Prism Central (PC).  The below video is what I came up with.  The code to add a node via API from the Cluster portal is listed here:https://gith

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dlink7
2 years ago
ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Clusters on AWS Govcloud Supplement

OverviewNutanix Clusters GovCloud enables United States government customers to run a secure Nutanix cluster on AWS GovCloud in adherence with the US government compliance regimes.Nutanix Clusters GovCloud runs as a separate instance from the Nutanix Clusters commercial instance. To create a Nutanix cluster on AWS GovCloud, set up your AWS GovCloud account similar to an AWS commercial account. After you set up your AWS GovCloud account and complete the required documentation, the GovCloud Nutanix Operations team provides you access to the Nutanix Clusters GovCloud instance. You can then proceed to create a Nutanix cluster on AWS GovCloud as you would do on a commercial instance. Even though Nutanix Clusters GovCloud runs as a separate instance from the commercial instance, all features and workflows are identical to the commercial instance of Nutanix Clusters. See Nutanix Clusters On AWS Deployment and User Guide for more information.AWS GovCloud RegionsYou can create a Nutanix cluster

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ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
NutonianNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Backup and Recovery | Nutanix Clusters on AWS

BACKUP AND RECOVERY:For Nutanix Clusters on AWS Nutanix provides the following backup and recovery options.Disaster Recovery for Instance, AZ, and Region Failure Nutanix has native inbuilt replication capabilities to recover from complete cluster failure. Nutanix supports both near-synchronous (NearSync) and asynchronous replication on an AHV cluster. Integration with Third-Party Backup Solutions Deploying a single cluster in AWS is great for more ephemeral workloads where you want to take advantage of performance improvements and use the same automation pipelines you use on-prem.Disaster Recovery for Instance, AZ, and Region Failure:Nutanix has native inbuilt replication capabilities to recover from complete cluster failure. Nutanix supports both near-synchronous (NearSync) and asynchronous replication on an AHV cluster.You can set your Recovery Point Objective (RPO) to be as little as one minute with NearSync, one hour with asynchronous and instant with synchronous replications. You

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
NutonianNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Get Started with Nutanix Cluster on AWS

NUTANIX CLUSTERS REGISTRATION To register for Nutanix Clusters, you must have a My Nutanix account. A My Nutanix account allows you to access, manage, and use Nutanix Clusters. Your My Nutanix account is your first point of access to Nutanix Clusters. After you create a My Nutanix account, you can onboard into Nutanix Clusters either by signing up for one of the paid plans and applying Nutanix licenses at the same time.Pro-tip:You can also start a 30-day free trial of Nutanix Clusters. Nutanix Clusters Hybrid Subscription Model:You can sign up for Nutanix Clusters with any one of the payment plans (Pay As You Go or Cloud Commit) and apply Nutanix software licenses (that you might already have purchased or planning to purchase) such as Prism Pro, Files, and more at the same time. If you choose to apply licenses, the licenses are consumed first and then your payment plan falls back to the one you selected. If you do not have licenses or do not plan to purchase licenses, you can simply se

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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jpypScout
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FRAME : AZURE enterprise application could not authenticate

I want to try FRAME with azure to see what it give “hope” azure native login is supported.I created the enterprise application  , the secret etc..  the only step that i change is that i set the owner permission on the RG quite better than the subscription but i receive an ADAL error during  authentication ;  this is maybe because ADAL is depreciated ..  could you warn the support about it  ?

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yangzhi.zhao
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
dlink7
dlink7Moderator
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Automatically Hibernate your Nutanix Cluster

Why a Grizzly bear? Why not? Awhile ago I created a video showing how you could easily save lots of money by saving dollars on the EC2 costs by using hibernate. Nutanix Clusters is the only on-prem vendor offering this  for customers that want to lift and shift to the public cloud or use the public cloud for DR. I want to share the code snippet and how to create an API user in the Clusters portal.You can first get familiar with hibernate here:  To create an API user to make the call:Go to the Clusters portal  Under Organization go to usersGo to the user optionCreate an API userAdd an API user   You can limit the scope of the user to a single cluster. Once you have a API user you can use the below script to make an API call or add a script to a VM.#!/usr/local/bin/pythonimport hashlibimport hmacimport timeimport requestsimport base64# Client credentials#client_id from the user from the clusters portalclient_id = "*********.img.cloud-internal.nutanix.com" #client_secret password from the

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dlink7
3 years ago
ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Clusters on AWS Deployment and User Guide

Nutanix Clusters OverviewNutanix Clusters provides a single platform that can span private and public clouds but operates as a single cloud using Prism Central enabling true hybrid cloud architecture.Using the same platform on both clouds, Nutanix Clusters on AWS (NCA) reduces the operational complexity of extending, bursting, or migrating your applications and data between clouds. Because Nutanix Clusters runs Nutanix AOS and AHV with the same CLI, UI, and APIs, existing IT processes or third-party integrations that work on-premises continue to work regardless of where they are running. Nutanix Clusters resources are deployed in your cloud provider account, thereby enabling you to use your existing cloud provider relationship, credits, commits, and discounts.Figure. Overview of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud SoftwareClick to enlarge  Nutanix Clusters place the complete Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) stack directly on a bare-metal instance in Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC

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ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
dlink7
dlink7Moderator
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Getting Started With Clusters Videos

Hi Nutanix Community and fellow lurkers!If your just getting started with AWS, we have made some videos to go along with the documentation to make the process even easier. I would appreciate any feedback on what else should be added based on your own experience.  In the next week we will add a fourth video showing up to setup your VPN on the AWS side.    

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dlink7
3 years ago
Alona
Nutanix Employee
AlonaNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Security in the Cloud - Flow Security Central

Flow Security Central (FSC) is a SaaS product that detects and analyses security vulnerabilities in near real-time across multiple cloud environments. FSC supports the following capabilities.Visibility into Security Compliance: FSC provides businesses with a security heat map and complete visibility into the security posture of their environment using more than 800 automated audit checks based on the industry's best practices. Optimization of Security Compliance: FSC provides cloud operators with a one-click feature to easily fix their security issues. FSC also provides out-of-the-box security policies to automate the checks for common regulatory compliance policies, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CIS, and so on. Control over Security Compliance: FSC helps you to set policies that continuously detect security vulnerabilities in real-time and automate the actions needed to fix them. You can also create your custom audit checks in FSC to meet your business-specific security compliance needs. Fo

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
maaz
Nutanix Employee
maazNutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Introduction to Nutanix Clusters on AWS

Nutanix Clusters provides a single platform that can span private and public clouds but operates as a single cloud using Prism Central enabling true hybrid cloud architecture. Nutanix Clusters provides on-prem workloads, a home in the cloud, offering native access to available AWS services without requiring you to reconfigure your software.You use the Nutanix Clusters console to deploy a cluster in a VPC in AWS, and not Foundation. After you launch a Nutanix cluster in AWS by using Nutanix Clusters, you can operate the cluster in the same manner as you operate your on-prem Nutanix cluster with no change in nCLI, the Prism Element and Prism Central web console, and APIs. You use the Nutanix Clusters console to create, hibernate, resume, update, and delete your Nutanix cluster. Following are the key points for running Nutanix cluster on AWSRuns on the EC2 bare metal instances.following EC2 bare metal instances: z1d.metal m5d.metal i3.metal i3en.metal Nutanix Clusters stack in AWS i

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maaz
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
rohan.saksena-55595
Nutanix Employee
rohan.saksena-55595Nutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Clusters and Licensing

Licensing is an important and integral part of Nutanix Clusters. All Nutanix Software Products does not require a license. Nutanix provides these products and their features without requiring you to do anything license-wise:Nutanix AHV Karbon (enabled through Prism Central) Prism Central (Prism Pro, however, requires a license for its advanced features, but you can manage registered Prism Element clusters with the base Prism Central software) Framework and utility software such as Life Cycle Manager (LCM), X-Ray, and Move FoundationViewing License Status: The most current information about your licenses is available from the Prism Element or Prism Central web console. It is also available at the Nutanix Support Portal from the Products link. You can view information about license levels, expiration dates, and any free license inventory (that is, unassigned available licenses)Displaying License Features and DetailsRequirements and Considerations for LicensingLicensing Guide

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rohan.saksena-55595
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
rohan.saksena-55595
Nutanix Employee
rohan.saksena-55595Nutanix Employee
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Clusters on AWS

Nutanix Clusters deliver a hybrid multi-cloud platform addressing the need of a single platform, that can span private, distributed, and public clouds. This will help in managing traditional and modern applications using a Consistent Cloud Platform.Nutanix Clusters has features like:Operational Simplicity Seamless Application Mobility Cost EfficiencyThe above features help to run applications in private or multiple public clouds and reduce the operational complexity of migrating, extending, or bursting your applications and data between clouds.Nutanix Clusters extends the simplicity and ease of use of Nutanix Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) software, as well as the full Nutanix stack to public clouds such as AWS.We can Modify, Update Display, Hibernate, Resume or Delete Nutanix clusters running on AWS by using the Nutanix Clusters console.Release NotesKnown Issues

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rohan.saksena-55595
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Clusters- Hibernate

Learn how Nutanix Clusters can be hibernated to save costs and let you easily continue where you left off with our very own Dwayne Lessner.   Share your comments below and let me know what other videos you would like to see. Give this video a thumbs up if it helped you.

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aluciani
3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Nutanix Clusters- Native Cloud Networking

Learn how to quickly get to work with native cloud networking with Nutanix Clusters on AWS with our very own Dwayne Lessner.   Share your thoughts in the comments and let me know how you are using Nutanix Clusters.

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aluciani
3 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
posted in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

Quickly deploy Nutanix Clusters on AWS

Learn how to quickly deploy Nutanix Clusters on AWS from our very own Dwayne Lessner.   Share your thoughts in the comments and let me know how clusters is working for you.

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aluciani
3 years ago

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