Users Guide

Setting up Hyper-V

When you set up Hyper-V, there are tasks for preparing your nodes and different tasks for configuring

your cluster.

Preparing your nodes

1. Access system GUI, and do one of the following:

• Connect the physical keyboard or monitor or mouse to the ports on the Dell XC720xd.

• Connect to the iDRAC GUI

2. Turn on system.

3. On the Microsoft Windows Settings page, to accept the Microsoft End User License Agreement,

click I Agree. After accepting the agreement, Windows continues the startup process.

4. Log in to Windows using the Nutanix password (Nutanix/4u).

5. The first Boot Wizard launches automatically. To continue, click OK.

6. The system restarts.

7. Log in to Windows again.

8. The first Boot Wizard launches automatically. To continue, click OK.

9. Log in to Windows again.

10. Click OK.

11. The system automatically logs off.

12. After the system starts, connect a workstation or laptop to the host network switch.

Configuring your cluster

To configure a cluster:

1. After preparing all nodes, connect workstation or laptop to the host network switch.

For more information, refer to the Nutanix Setup Guide and see the Configuring the Cluster section.

2. If you want to configure your cluster in a VLAN-segmented network, refer to the Nutanix Advanced

Setup Guide

and see the “Configuring the Cluster” in a VLAN Segmented Network section.

NOTE: To configure the cluster, build the URL from Service Tag of any one node (XC720xd) and

enter it in a browser window on a workstation or laptop connected to the host network switch.

For example: http://ntnx-c1mlv12-a-cvm.local.:2100/cluster_init.html.