Fun and crazy days here at Nutanix. I’ve busy been fielding a lot of calls around our new offering, CPS Standard on Nutanix. Now if you don’t know what CPS is, it stands for Cloud Platform System.
CPS Standard on Nutanix Released
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Microsoft Exchange Best Practices on Nutanix
To continue on my last blog post on Exchange...
As I mentioned previously, I support SE’s from all over the world. And again today, I got asked what are the best practices for running Exchange on Nutanix. Funny enough, this question comes in quite often. Well, I am going to help resolve that. There’s a lot of great info out there, especially from my friend Josh Odgers, which has been leading the charge on this for a long time. Some of his posts can be controversial, but the truth is always there. He’s getting a point across.
Nutanix NOS 4.6 Released….
On February 16, 2016, Nutanix announced the Acropolis NOS 4.6 release and last week was available for download. Along with many enhancements, I wanted to highlight several items, including some tech preview features.
NPP Training series – How does it work – CVM – Software Defined
To continue NPP training series here is my next topic: How does it work – CVM – Software Defined
If you missed other parts of my series, check out links below:
Part 1 – NPP Training series – Nutanix Terminology
Part 2 – NPP Training series – Nutanix Terminology
Cluster Architecture with Hyper-V
Data Structure on Nutanix with Hyper-V
I/O Path Overview
Drive Breakdown
To give credit, most of the content was taken from Steve Poitras’s “Nutanix Bible” blog as his content is the most accurate and then I put a Hyper-V lean to it. Also, he just rocks…other than being a Sea Hawks Fan :).
Software-Defined
As mentioned before (likely numerous times), the Nutanix platform is a software-based solution which ships as a bundled software + hardware appliance. The controller VM or what we call the Nutanix CVM is where the vast majority of the Nutanix software and logic sits and was designed from the beginning to be an extensible and pluggable architecture. A key benefit to being software-defined and not relying upon any hardware offloads or constructs is around extensibility. As with any product life-cycle, advancements and new features will always be introduced.
By not relying on any custom ASIC/FPGA or hardware capabilities, Nutanix can develop and deploy these new features through a simple software update. This means that the deployment of a new feature (e.g., deduplication) can be deployed by upgrading the current version of the Nutanix software. This also allows newer generation features to be deployed on legacy hardware models. For example, say you’re running a workload running an older version of Nutanix software on a prior generation hardware platform (e.g., 2400). The running software version doesn’t provide deduplication capabilities which your workload could benefit greatly from. To get these features, you perform a rolling upgrade of the Nutanix software version while the workload is running, and you now have deduplication. It’s really that easy.
Similar to features, the ability to create new “adapters” or interfaces into Distributed Storage Fabric is another key capability. When the product first shipped, it solely supported iSCSI for I/O from the hypervisor, this has now grown to include NFS and SMB for Hyper-V. In the future, there is the ability to create new adapters for various workloads and hypervisors (HDFS, etc.).
And again, all of this can be deployed via a software update. This is contrary to most legacy infrastructures, where a hardware upgrade or software purchase is normally required to get the “latest and greatest” features. With Nutanix, it’s different. Since all features are deployed in software, they can run on any hardware platform, any hypervisor, and be deployed through simple software upgrades.
The following figure shows a logical representation of what this software-defined controller framework (Nutanix CVM) looks like:
Next up, NPP Training Series – How does it all work – Disk Balancing
Until next time, Rob…
Nutanix NOS 4.5 Released…
Hi all…It’s been a few weeks since my last blog post. I’ve been busy with some travel to Microsoft Technology Centers and working on the Nutanix Ready Program. Yesterday, Nutanix released NOS 4.5. This exciting upgrade adds some great features.. Sit back and get ready to enjoy the ride…release notes below.
| Table 1. Terminology Updates | |
| New Terminology | Formerly Known As |
| Acropolis base software | Nutanix operating system, NOS |
| Acropolis hypervisor, AHV | Nutanix KVM hypervisor |
| Acropolis API | Nutanix API and Acropolis API |
| Acropolis App Mobility Fabric | Acropolis virtualization management and administration |
| Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric, DSF | Nutanix Distributed Filesystem (NDFS) |
| Prism Element | Web console (for cluster management); also known as the Prism web console; a cluster managed by Prism Central |
| Prism Central | Prism Central (for multicluster management) |
| Block fault tolerance | Block awareness |
What’s New in Acropolis base software 4.5
Bandwidth Limit on Schedule
- The bandwidth throttling policy provides you with an option to set the maximum limit of the network bandwidth. You can specify the policy depending on the usage of your network.
Note: You can configure bandwidth throttling only while updating the remote site. This option is not available during the configuration of remote site.
Cloud Connect for Azure
- The cloud connect feature for Azure enables you to back up and restore copies of virtual machines and files to and from an on-premise cluster and a Nutanix Controller VM located on the Microsoft Azure cloud. Once configured through the Prism web console, the remote site cluster is managed and monitored through the Data Protection dashboard like any other remote site you have created and configured. This feature is currently supported for ESXi hypervisor environments only.
Common Access Card Authentication
- You can configure two-factor authentication for web console users that have an assigned role and use a Common Access Card (CAC).
Default Container and Storage Pool Upon Cluster Creation
- When you create a cluster, the Acropolis base software automatically creates a container and storage pool for you.
Erasure Coding
- Complementary to deduplication and compression, erasure coding increases the effective or usable cluster storage capacity. [FEAT-1096]
- This is very cool tech…Check out Josh Odgers blog post for more details on EC
Hyper-V Configuration through Prism Web Console
- After creating a Nutanix Hyper-V cluster environment, you can use the Prism web console to join the hosts to the domain, create the Hyper-V failover cluster, and also enable Kerberos.
Image Service Now Available in the Prism Web Console
- The Prism web console Image Configuration workflow enables a user to upload ISO or disk images (in ESXi or Hyper-V format) to a Nutanix AHV cluster by specifying a remote repository URL or by uploading a file from a local machine.
MPIO Access to iSCSI Disks (Windows Guest VMs)
- Acropolis base software 4.5 feature to help enforce access control to volume groups and expose volume group disks as dual namespace disks.
Network Mapping
- Network mapping allows you to control network configuration for the VMs when they are started on the remote site. This feature enables you to specify network mapping between the source cluster and the destination cluster. The remote site wizard includes an option to create one or more network mappings and allows you to select source and destination network from the drop-down list. You can also modify or remove network mappings as part of modifying the remote sites.
Nutanix Cluster Check
- Acropolis base software 4.5 includes Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) 2.1, which includes many new checks and functionality.
- NCC 2.1 Release Notes
NX-6035C Clusters Usable as a Target for Replication
- You can use a Nutanix NX-6035C cluster as a target for Nutanix native replication and snapshots, created by source Nutanix clusters in your environment. You can configure the NX-6035C as a target for snapshots, set a longer retention policy than on the source cluster (for example), and restore snapshots to the source cluster as needed. The source cluster hypervisor environment can be AHV, Hyper-V, or ESXi. See Nutanix NX-6035C Replication Target in Notes and Cautions.
Note: You cannot use an NX-6035C cluster as a backup target with third-party backup software.
Prism Central Can Now Be Deployed on the Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
- Nutanix has introduced a Prism Central OVA which can be deployed on an AHV cluster by leveraging Image Service features. See the Web Console Guide for installation details.
- Prism Central 4.5 Release Notes
Prism Central Scalability
- By increasing memory capacity to 16GB and expanding its virtual disk to 260GB, Prism Central can support a maximum of 100 clusters and 10000 VMs (across all the clusters and assuming each VM has an average of two virtual disks). Please contact Nutanix support if you decide to change the configuration of the Prism Central VM.
- Prism Central 4.5 Release Notes
- Prism Central Scalability, Compatibility and Deployment
Simplified Add Node Workflow
- This release leverages Foundation 3.0 imaging capabilities and automates the manual steps previously required for expanding a cluster through the Prism web console.
SNMP
- The Nutanix SNMP MIB database includes the following changes:
- The database includes tables for monitoring hypervisor instances and virtual machines.
- The service status table named serviceStatusTable is obsolete. Analogous information is available in a new table named controllerStatusTable. The new table has a smaller number of MIB fields for displaying the status of only essential services in the Acropolis base software.
- The disk status table (diskStatusTable), storage pool table (storagePoolInformationTable), and cluster information table include one or more new MIB fields.
- The SNMP feature also includes the following enhancements:
- From the web console, you can trigger test alerts that are sent to all configured SNMP trap receivers.
- SNMP service logs are now written to the following log file: /home/nutanix/data/logs/snmp_manager.out
Support for Minor Release Upgrades for ESXi Hosts
- Acropolis base software 4.5 enables you to patch upgrade ESXi hosts with minor release versions of ESXi host software through the Controller VM cluster command. Nutanix qualifies specific VMware updates and provides a related JSON metadata upgrade file for one-click upgrade, but now customers can patch hosts by using the offline bundle and md5sum checksum available from VMware, and using the Controller VM cluster command.
Note: Nutanix supports the ability to patch upgrade ESXi hosts with minor versions that are greater than or released after the Nutanix qualified version, but Nutanix might not have qualified those minor releases. Please see the the Nutanix hypervisor support statement in our Support FAQ.
VM High Availability in Acropolis
- In case of a node failure, VM High Availability (VM-HA) ensures that VMs running on the node are automatically restarted on the remaining nodes within the cluster. VM-HA can optionally be configured to reserve spare failover capacity. This capacity reservation can be distributed across the nodes in chunks known as “segments” to provide better overall resource utilization.
Windows Guest VM Failover Clustering
- Acropolis base software 4.5 supports configuring Windows guest VMs as a failover cluster. This clustering type enables applications on a failed VM to fail over to and run on another guest VM on the same or different host. This release supports this feature on Hyper-V hosts with in-guest VM iSCSI and SCSI 3 Persistent Reservation (PR).
Tech Preview Features
Note: Do not use tech preview features on production systems or storage used or data stored on production systems.
File Level Restore
- The file level restore feature allows a virtual machine user to restore a file within a virtual machine from the Nutanix protected snapshot with minimal Nutanix administrator intervention.
Note: This feature should be used only after upgrading all nodes in the cluster to Acropolis base software 4.5.
What’s New in Prism Central
Prism Central for Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV)
Nutanix has introduced a Prism Central VM which is compatible with AHV to enable multicluster management in this environment. Prism Central now supports all three major hypervisors: AHV, Hyper-V, and ESXi.
Prism Central Scalability
The Prism Central VM requires these resources to support the clusters and VMs indicated in the table.
| Prism Central vCPU |
Prism Central Memory (GB, default) | Total Storage Required for Prism Central VM (GB) | Clusters Supported | VMs Supported (across all clusters) | Virtual disks per VM |
| 4 | 8 | 256 | 50 | 5000 | 2 |
Release Notes | NCC 2.1
Learn More About NCC Health Checks
You can learn more about the Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) health checks on the Nutanix support portal. The portal includes a series of Knowledge Base articles describing most NCC health checks run by the ncc health_checks command.
What’s New in NCC 2.1
NCC 2.1 includes support for:
- Acropolis base software 4.5 or later
- NOS 4.1.3 or later only
- All Nutanix NX Series models
- Dell XC Series of Web-scale Converged Appliances
Tech Preview Features
The following features are available as a Tech Preview in NCC 2.1.
Run NCC health checks in parallel
- You can specify the number of NCC health checks to run in parallel to reduce the amount of time it takes for all checks to complete. For example, the command ncc health_checks run_all –parallel=25 will run 25 of the health checks in parallel.
Use npyscreen to display NCC status
- You can specify npyscreen as part of the ncc command to display status to the terminal window. Specify –npyscreen=true as part of the ncc health_checks command.
New Checks in This Release
| Check Name | Description | KB Article |
| check_disks | Check whether disks are discoverable by the host. Pass if the disks are discovered. | KB 2712 |
| check_pending_reboot | Check if host has pending reboots. Pass if host does not have pending reboots. | KB 2713 |
| check_storage_heavy_node | Verify that nodes such as the storage-heavy NX-6025C are running a service VM and no guest VMs. Verify that nodes such as the storage-heavy NX-6025C are runningthe Acropolis hypervisor only. |
KB 2726 KB 2727 |
| check_utc_clock | Check if UTC clock is enabled. | KB 2711 |
| cluster_version_check | Verifiy that the cluster is running a released version of NOS or the Acropolis base software. This check returns an INFO status and the version if the cluster is running a pre-release version. | KB 2720 |
| compression_disabled_check | Verify if compression is enabled. | KB 2725 |
| data_locality_check | Check if VMs that are part of a cluster with metro availability are in two different datastores (that is, fetching local data). | KB 2732 |
| dedup_and_compression_enabled_containers_check | Checks if any container have deduplication and compression enabled together. | KB 2721 |
| dimm_same_speed_check | Check that all DIMMs have the same speed. | KB 2723 |
| esxi_ivybridge_performance_degradation_check | Check for the Ivy Bridge performance degradation scenario on ESXi clusters. | KB 2729 |
| gpu_driver_installed_check | Check the version of the installed GPU driver. | KB 2714 |
| quad_nic_driver_version_check | Check the version of the installed quad port NIC driver version. | KB 2715 |
| vmknics_subnet_check | Check if any vmknics have same subnet (different subnets are not supported). | KB 2722 |
Foundation Release 3.0
This release includes the following enhancements and changes:
- A major new implementation that allows for node imaging and cluster creation through the Controller VM for factory-prepared nodes on the same subnet. This process significantly reduces network complications and simplifies the workflow. (The existing workflow remains for imaging bare metal nodes.) The new implementation includes the following enhancements:
- A Java aplet that automatically discovers factory-prepared nodes on the subnet and allows you to select the first one to image.
- A simplified GUI to select and configure the nodes, define the cluster, select the hypervisor and Acropolis base software versions to use, and monitor the imaging and cluster creation process.
Customers may create a cluster using the new Controller VM-based implementation in Foundation 3.0. Imaging bare metal nodes is still restricted to Nutanix sales engineers, support engineers, and partners.
- The new implementation is incorporated in the Acropolis base software version 4.5 to allow for node imaging when adding nodes to an existing cluster through the Prism GUI.
- The cluster creation workflow does not use IPMI, and for both cluster creation and bare-metal imaging, the host operating system install is done within an “installer VM” in Phoenix.
- To see the progress of a host operating system installation, point a VNC console at the node’s Controller VM IP address on port 5901.
- Foundation no longer offers the option to run diagnostics.py as a post-imaging test. Should you wish to run this test, you can download it from the Tools & Firmware page on the Nutanix support portal.
- There is no Foundation upgrade path to the new Controller VM implementation; you must download the Java aplet from the Foundation 3.0 download page on the support portal. However, you can upgrade Foundation 2.1.x to 3.0 for the bare metal workflow as follows:
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- Copy the Foundation tarball (foundation-version#.tar.gz) from the support portal to /home/nutanix in your VM.
- Navigate to /home/nutanix.
- Enter the following five commands:
- $ sudo service foundation_service stop
- $ rm -rf foundation
- $ tar xzf foundation-version#.tar.gz
- $ sudo yum install python-scp
- $ sudo service foundation_service restart
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- If the first command (foundation_service stop) is skipped or the commands are not run in order, the user may get bizarre errors after upgrading. To fix this situation, enter the following two commands:
- $ sudo pkill -9 foundation
- $ sudo service foundation_service restart
Release Notes for each of these products is located at:
- Acropolis base software 4.5: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Release_Notes-Acr_v4_5:rel_Release_Notes-Acr_v4_5.html
- Prism Central 4.5: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Release_Notes-Acr_v4_5:rel_Release_Notes-Prism_Central_v4_5.html
- Nutanix Cluster Check(NCC) 2.1: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Release_Notes-NCC:rel_Release_Notes-NCC_v2_1.html
- Foundation 3.0: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Field_Installation_Guide-v3_0:fie_release_notes_foundation_v3_0_r.html
Download URLs:
- Acropolis base software 4.5: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/releases/nosDetails?targetId=4.5&targetVal=EA
- Prism Central 4.5: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/releases/prismDetails
- Nutanix Cluster Check 2.1: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/static/supportTools
- Foundation 3.0: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/foundation/list
- Nutanix AHV Metadata(Acropolis base 4.5) AHV-20150921: http://download.nutanix.com/hypervisor/kvm/4.5/host-bundle-el6.nutanix.20150921-metadata.json
- Nutanix AHV (Acropolis base 4.5) AHV-20150921: http://download.nutanix.com/hypervisor/kvm/4.5/host-bundle-el6.nutanix.20150921.tar.gz
Until next time, Rob…
Nutanix SCOM Management Pack – Monitor Your Nutanix Infrastructure
As a Microsoft Evangelist at Nutanix, I am always asked….”How would you monitor your Nutanix Infrastructure and can I use System Center suite. And my answer always is, “YES, with SCOM”….What is SCOM you ask?
System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) is designed to be a monitoring tool for the datacenter. Think of a datacenter with multiple vendors representing multiple software and hardware products. Consequently, SCOM was developed to be extensible using the concept of management packs. Vendors typically develop one or more management packs for every product they want plugged into SCOM.
To facilitate these management packs, SCOM supports standard discovery and data collection mechanisms like SNMP, but also affords vendors the flexibility of native API driven data collection. Nutanix provides management packs that support using the Microsoft System Center Operations Manager (SCOM) to monitor a Nutanix cluster.
Nutanix SCOM Management Pack
The management packs collect information about software (cluster) elements through SNMP and hardware elements through ipmiutil (Intelligent Platform Management Interface Utility) and REST API calls and then package that information for SCOM to digest. Note: The Hardware Elements Management Pack leverages the ipmiutil program to gather information from Nutanix block for Fans, Power Supply and Temperature.
Nutanix provides two management packs:
- Cluster Management Pack – This management pack collects information about software elements of a cluster including Controller VMs, storage pools, and containers.
- Hardware Management Pack – This management pack collects information about hardware elements of a cluster including fans, power supplies, disks, and nodes.
Installing and configuring the management packs involves the following simple steps:
- Install and configure SCOM on the Windows server system (if not installed) (will blog a post soon on this topic)
- Uninstall existing Nutanix management packs (if present)
- Open the IPMI-related ports (if not open). IPMI access is required for the hardware management pack
- Install the Nutanix management packs
- Configure the management packs using the SCOM discovery and template wizards
After the management packs have been installed and configured, you can use SCOM to monitor a variety of Nutanix objects including cluster, alert, and performance views as shown in examples below. Also, I check out this great video produced by pal @mcghem . He shows a great demo of the SCOM management pack…Kudo’s Mike….also, check out his blog.
Views and Objects Snapshots 
Cluster Monitoring Snapshots
Cluster Performance Monitoring
Hardware Monitoring Snapshots 
In the following diagram views, users can navigate to the components with failure.
Nutanix Objects Available for Monitoring via SCOM
The following provides an high level overview of Nutanix Cluster with Components:
The following sections describe Nutanix Cluster objects being monitored by this version of MPs:
Cluster
Monitored Element |
Description |
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Version |
Current cluster version. This is the nutanix-core package version expected on all the Controller VMs. |
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Status |
Current Status of the cluster. This will usually be one of started or stopped |
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TotalStorageCapacity |
Total storage capacity of the cluster |
|
UsedStorageCapacity |
Number of bytes of storage used on the cluster |
|
Iops |
For Performance: Cluster wide average IO operations per second |
|
Latency |
For Performance: Cluster wide average latency |
CVM Resource Monitoring
Monitored Element |
Description |
|
ControllerVMId |
Nutanix Controller VM Id |
|
Memory |
Total memory assigned to CVM |
|
NumCpus |
Total number of CPUs allocated to a CVM |
Storage
Storage Pool
A storage pool is a group of physical disks from SSD and/or HDD tier.
Monitored Element |
Description |
|
PoolId |
Storage pool id |
|
PoolName |
Name of the storage pool |
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TotalCapacity |
Total capacity of the storage pool Note: An alert if there is drop in capacity may indicate a bad disk. |
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UsedCapacity |
Number of bytes used in the storage pool |
Performance parameters:
Monitored Element |
Description |
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IOPerSecond |
Number of IO operations served per second from this storage pool. |
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AvgLatencyUsecs |
Average IO latency for this storage pool in microseconds |
Containers
A container is a subset of available storage within a storage pool. Containers hold the virtual disks (vDisks) used by virtual machines. Selecting a storage pool for a new container defines the physical disks where the vDisks will be stored.
Monitored Element |
Description |
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ContainerId |
Container id |
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ContainerName |
Name of the container |
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TotalCapacity |
Total capacity of the container |
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UsedCapacity |
Number of bytes used in the container |
Performance parameters:
Monitored Element |
Description |
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IOPerSecond |
Number of IO operations served per second from this container. |
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AvgLatencyUsecs |
Average IO latency for this container in microseconds |
Hardware Objects
Cluster
Monitored Element |
Description |
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Discovery IP Address |
IP address used for discovery of cluster |
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Cluster Incarnation ID |
Unique ID of cluster |
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CPU Usage |
CPU usage for all the nodes of cluster |
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Memory Usage |
Memory usage for all the nodes of cluster |
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Node IP address |
External IP address of Node |
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System Temperature |
System Temperature |
Disk
Monitored Element |
Description |
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Disk State/health |
Node state as returned by the PRISM [REST /hosts “state” attribute ] |
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Disk ID |
ID assigned to the disk |
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Disk Name |
Name of the disk (Full path where meta data stored) |
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Disk Serial Number |
Serial number of disk |
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Hypervisor IP |
Host OS IP where disk is installed |
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Tire Name |
Disk Tire |
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CVM IP |
Cluster VM IP which controls the disk |
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Total Capacity |
Total Disk capacity |
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Used Capacity |
Total Disk used |
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Online |
If Disk is online or offline |
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Location |
Disk location |
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Cluster Name |
Disk cluster name |
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Discovery IP address |
IP address through which Disk was discovered |
|
Disk Status |
Status of the disk |
Node
Monitored Element |
Description |
|
Node State/health |
Node state as returned by the PRISM [REST /hosts “state” attribute ] |
|
Node IP address |
External IP address of Node |
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IPMI Address |
IPMI IP address of Node |
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Block Model |
Hardware model of block |
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Block Serial Number |
Serial number of block |
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CPU Usage % |
CPU usage for Node |
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Memory Usage % |
Memory usage for node |
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Fan Count |
Total fans |
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Power Supply Count |
Total Power supply |
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System Temperature |
System Temperature |
Fan
Monitored Element |
Description |
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Fan number |
Fan number |
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Fan speed |
Fan speed in RPM |
Power supply
Element |
Description |
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Power supply number |
Power supply number |
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Power supply status |
Power supply status whether present or absent |
If you would like to checkout the Nutanix management pack on your SCOM instance, please go to our portal to download the management pack and documentation.
This management pack was development by our awesome engineering team @ Nutanix. Kudos to Yogi and team for a job well done!!! 😉 I hope I gave you a good feel for Nutanix monitoring using SCOM. As always, if you have any questions or comments, please leave below….
Until next time….Rob
Symon Perriman….his thoughts on Hyper-V, Security and future of Virtualization on the Nutanix .NEXT community podcast
Hey everyone…I wanted to share a very cool update (and maybe a little of hero-worship 😀 ). Well, anyways, my job at Nutanix had another highlight recently. As many of your know, I love reading, breathing, consuming Microsoft technology. During my consumption of education, there number of people I follow, but there are few that stand out…and one that I spent a lot of time listening to via podcasts; Symon Perriman
Symon Perriman
He takes complex technology subjects and explains it extremely well on many levels so everyone understands..He believes in the community….all things as technologists, we can all strive to achieve.
I recently had the lucky chance to interview him for the Nutanix .Next Community Podcast. It was great honor to interview him with my colleaguebuddy @NutanixTommy as we both had different points of views.
Symon joined 5nine Software earlier this year as Vice President, Business Development & Marketing and is how I came to meet Simon as part of my job in Technical Alliances at Nutanix.
For those of you who are not familiar with 5nine Software, 5nine has a great alternative management product for Hyper-V with benefits of simplified vCenter type management without the footprint of System Center. They also are the only vendor with agentless security product via the Hyper-V extensible virtual switch. Think vShield for Hyper-V…Very cool… 😎
For those that are not familiar with Symon…a brief history…
With more than 12 years of experience in the high-tech industry, Symon is an internationally recognized expert in virtualization, high-availability, disaster recovery, data center management, and cloud technologies.
As Microsoft’s Senior Technical Evangelist and worldwide technical lead covering virtualization, infrastructure, management and cloud. He has trained millions of IT Professionals, hosted the “Edge Show” weekly webcast, holds several patents and dozens of industry certifications, and in 2013 he co-authored “Introduction to System Center 2012 R2 for IT Professionals” (Microsoft Press). He graduated from Duke University with degrees in Computer Science, Economics and Film & Digital Studies.
Enjoy the show……
Until next time, Rob…
Understanding Windows Azure Pack – How to guide with Express Edition on Nutanix – Windows Azure Pack Install – Part 5
To continue Windows Azure Pack series here is my next topic: Installing and Configuring Windows Azure Pack
If you missed other parts of the series, check links below:
Part 1 – Understanding Windows Azure Pack
Part 2 – Understanding Windows Azure Pack – Deployment Scenarios
Part 3 – Understanding Windows Azure Pack – How to guide with Express Edition on Nutanix – Environment Prep
Part 4 – Deploying Service Provider Framework on Nutanix
Again to reiterate from my previous blog posts and set some context, Windows Azure Pack (WAP) includes the following capabilities: Continue reading