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Nutanix offers a monitoring & alerting utility, NCC - Nutanix Cluster check, which comes pre-installed on every CVM.Nutanix Cluster Check is a powerful framework which includes several plugins to monitor & alert on different hardware and software components. It is installed on every CVM across a single cluster on all nodes.It comes with almost all Nutanix products, such as Prism Central, Files etc. NCC will include the relevant checks for these products, enabling Nutanix administrators to keep on top of any software, configuration issues. Following are some of the important Hardware (Physical Components) checks and alerting offered byNCC:a) Periodic Disk checksb) Periodic BIOS / BMC Firmware checks (Versions / Upgrades required)c) Boot Devices Monitoring (Sata DOM or M.2)d) SSD and HDD wear and tear checkse) BIOS, BMC checks to ensure all hardware components are current and stablef) Network Interface card checksg) IPMI / Out of band management interface checksh) Power Supply
Reliable and Accurate Time Sync is mandatory for distributed services to work in a reliable / efficient manner.Network Time Protocol (NTP) is used across different devices and services on a network to maintain reliability and integrity of services, data and other critical functions.Nutanix - AOS, built on web-scale engineering principles, distributes roles and responsibilities to all nodes within the system to form a large cluster of services working together. Accurate time sync becomes a vital requirement for all the different components to work reliably and help keep up system integrity.Accurate time sync, not just offers integrity and smooth operations but offers a lot of value even when things don’t work as they should. During troubleshooting of any service, timestamps are used to understand and co-relate root-cause, impact of the problem.In order for a distributed system such as Nutanix AOS to work smoothly - NTP is of critical importance. CVMs (Controller Virtual Machine) that co
Nutanix offers compatibility with all major hypervisors (Hyper-V, ESXi, XEN) to be able to host virtual machines on it and leverage the benefits of a truly distributed scale out storage fabric.Nutanix qualifies all releases of 3rd Party hypervisors in order to ensure smooth operations for customers using the respective hypervisors.From the Nutanix Support FAQs:For hypervisor releases:For Major/Minor hypervisor releases (eg ESXi 6.5, Windows Server 2016 Build 14393) the goal is to qualify within 90 days of the software GA release date. Nutanix may qualify the latest hypervisor Major/Minor release in conjunction with the latest (or upcoming) AOS release first. Nutanix advises customers to wait until any Major/Minor release is qualified by Nutanix prior to deployment.Please make sure to visit the following link in order to read more on timelines and support policy for 3rd Party hypervisors : https://www.nutanix.com/support-services/product-support/faqs
Physical Windows Server to Virtual conversion (P2V for AHV) Depending on the number of physical servers in your environment, you might want to convert them tovirtual servers and migrate over to Nutanix AHV. Nutanix Image Service supports VHD, VMDK, vDISK, IMG, qcow formats for disk images. Summary:1) Prepare the Physical Windows Server - Install Virtio Drivers from: Nutanix Portal > Downloads > Tools & Firmware > Virtio2) Download Disk2VHD from Microsoft site:(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd)3) Convert the Disk or Disks (Make sure to select "bootable" for the appropriate disk)4) Upload the Converted Disk to Nutanix Cluster via Image service Uploading VHD to the Cluster via Image Service:1) You can upload via the browser or2) Image service also allows for uploading files via http source (existing or new web-server required) Once the converted VHD is uploaded to the Image Service, we can now create a new VMCreate a New VM:Create the new
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