Nutanix Cluster Setup

Congratulations! You are a few steps away from creating the Nutanix cluster and accessing the Nutanix Prism Element control plane.

The following are the details required for the subsequent configuration of the cluster

Parameters	Value
Cluster Name	WesCluster
Cluster IP	192.168.10.19
Host Default Username | Password	root | nutanix/4u
CVM Default Username | Password	nutanix | nutanix/4u
Prism Element Default Username | Password	admin | Nutanix/4u

Step 1: SSH to Node 1 CVM

ssh nutanix@192.168.10.11

Step 2: Do a PING test to ensure you can reach the other 2 nodes CVM

ping 192.168.10.12
ping 192.168.10.13

Step 3: Create Cluster using the command below

cluster -s 192.168.10.11,192.168.10.12,192.168.10.13 create

Step 4: The cluster creation will take sometime and you should see something like this below

Step 5: We will need to do a cluster start when the creation is completed

cluster start

Step 6: You should see the following screen when the cluster is started successfully

Step 7: Configure the cluster name

ncli cluster edit-params new-name=WesCluster

Step 8: Configure the cluster IP

ncli cluster set-external-ip-address external-ip-address="192.168.10.19" 

Step 9: Let’s launch our Firefox browser and key in the following URL

https://192.168.10.19:9440

Step 10: Login with the default credentials listed in the table above

Step 11: You will be prompted to change the default password

Step 12: You will be prompted to enter your Nutanix NEXT credentials. You can create an account if you don’t have and it is free of charge.

Step 13: You will see your cluster information when all is configured successfully

In the next blog post, I will share on how to reduce Nutanix controller VM size, so that we have more memory resources for our labs.