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Hi my name is Steve, from Ohio. We bought 6 nodes last year to migrate a customer service & support VDI environment off traditional server/storage methodology to separate the environment away from our standard production environment. Been in prod for approximately 3 months and already ordered an additional blade for expansion! Making business case now to move our software development group off traditional HPE server/NetApp storage to Nutanix cluster for better performance, easier scalability and hopefully some automation capability down the road. Working on obtaining my NCP. Looking forward to listening, learning and hopefully contributing to the community! Interested to find out what the Nutanix local community looks like in the Cincinnati area.
mjg, Currently the best way to do the nodes that are running your instant clones is individually. VMware has made it a bit easier, as you'll notice each node (in the vSphere web client) has a custom attribute "InstantClone.Maintenance", and the current value should be 0. My steps to upgrade firmware, or anything that you need to put the host into maintenance mode are below: [list=1] [*]Edit the value for "InstantClone.Maintenance" to 1 [*]After a few minutes, vCenter and Horizon View will see that value, and shut down/delete the cp-parent VMs on that host, and the value will change to 3 [*]Once you see the cp-parent VMs are gone, you can go into Prism and go to LCM, once you have performed an inventory, you should be able to put a check next to the host you want to upgrade (ONLY CHECK THE HOST YOU WISH TO UPGRADE!). [/list]LCM will take care of the rest. It will invoke DRS (make sure HA Admission control is disabled or Nutanix will fail the process). It will migrate all workloads off t
mjg, no worries, I am really glad to help!Glad your firmware updates are going well! Definitely take it slow to ensure everything is healthy between node upgrades. AOS is completely non-disruptive to the hosts. No need to place the hosts in maintenance mode, as it installs AOS on each CVM, and reboots them in a staged/safe fashion. Let the Nutanix cluster do its thing for the CVMs.I highly recommend the first couple types of firmware/AOS upgrade work you do, open a proactive ticket with Nutanix. Have them do a pre-work health check, they'll keep the ticket open during your work (in the event you have an issue, you'll get next in line support with a ticket already opened). I used to then call back in the next working day and have them do post-upgrade health checks. I'm more than happy to share my commands etc that I run on my own now to ensure things are healthy.
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