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Can Foundation create clusters in VMware Workstation?


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In my struggle to find some environment to practice/test Nutanix admin stuff, I’ve now come to Nutanix Foundation (NCE 2.0 worked but is old, NCE 2.1 failed on some networking issue in my environment).

Is it possible to create a small single node cluster running as a VM in VMware Workstation using for example Foundation?

I made a few tries but it seemed Foundation required IPMI access to the host, but VMs in VMware don’t have IPMI (to my knowledge).  It thought maybe a new VM could be recognized by Foundation (tried both the Windows version and the VM) if it had booted DiscoveryOS, but I couldn’t find the Discovery OS image anywhere…

Is there a way forward for an installation like this or is it a dead end?

Best answer by JeroenTielen

No that is not possible. The foundation process is only for nutanix certified hardware. 

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JeroenTielen
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No that is not possible. The foundation process is only for nutanix certified hardware. 


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Ok, thanks for the quick reply!

Sometimes there is a slight difference between what’s supported and what might be technically possible in a lab environment…  any other way to image a new node without Foundation?


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If you want to run CE 2.1 on VMware here is a guide for that: 

On VMware ESXi: https://www.jeroentielen.nl/installing-nutanix-community-edition-ce-on-vmware-esxi-vsphere/

On VMware Workstation: https://www.jeroentielen.nl/installing-nutanix-community-edition-ce-on-vmware-workstation/

 

But if you want to learn foundation then you need the real hardware. 


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