Reference Guide

• Using Nutanix Foundation from all locally discovered appliances that are ready to be clustered
• Creating a cluster manually by using command line interface
During this process, you can set the following parameters:
• Cluster maximum Redundancy Factory (RF)
• Cluster name
• Cluster virtual IP (optional for AHV and vSphere)
• Subnet mask and default gateway (iDRAC, hypervisor, and CVM)
• Domain Name Servers (DNS)
• Network Time Protocol (NTP) servers (hypervisor NTP N/A for Hyper-V)
• Hypervisor hostnames
• Appliance IPs (iDRAC, hypervisor, and CVM)
• Reinstallation of new hypervisor and CVM (optional with Nutanix Foundation CVM)
Conguring a cluster by using Nutanix Prism
NOTE: For information about Nutanix, see the Dell EMC XC940 Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Support Matrix available at
Dell.com/XCSeriesmanuals. The document name varies depending on the solution software version you are running.
Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
1 Create storage pool and containers through the Nutanix web console.
2 Create, deploy, and manage virtual machines through the Nutanix web console.
NOTE
: For more information, see the Acropolis Virtualization Administration Guide . To access Acropolis Virtualization
Administration Guide , see the Documentation Matrix section in the Dell EMC XC940 Series Hyper-Converged Appliances
Support Matrix available at Dell.com/XCSeriesmanuals.
VMware vSphere
1 Create storage pools through the Nutanix web console.
2 Create and mount containers as NFS datastores on appropriate hosts through the Nutanix web console.
3 Manually add and congure vSphere clusters by using the Nutanix guidelines.
NOTE
: For more information, see the vSphere Administration Guide . To access vSphere Administration Guide , see the
Documentation Matrix section in the Dell EMC XC940 Series Hyper-Converged Appliances Support Matrix available at Dell.com/
XCSeriesmanuals.
Microsoft Hyper-V
1 Create storage pools and containers through the Nutanix web console.
2 Run Hyper-V setup script from any CVM to join hosts to a domain, create a Hyper-V failover cluster, and register a storage cluster as
an SMB share.
3 Optionally, add a cluster to System Center Virtual Machine Manager either with the Hyper-V setup script or manually.
Default cluster credentials
The default cluster credentials for the appliance dier from those stated at the beginning of all Nutanix documentation. The following table
contains the default credentials for each for each interface in the appliance:
NOTE
: The default password is not set for ESXi hosts.
12 Deploying an appliance