Nutanix Community Edition Home Lab - Is it good?

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Nutanix Community Edition is a free solution that you can download and run in your home lab on your own hardware. Is it a good fit for home lab environments? Are there any limitations to note with the solution?
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Introduction - 0:00
Disclaimer - 0:45
Nutanix Community Edition - 1:01
Limitations and recommendations - 2:00
Installing Nutanix Community Edition - 4:24
Next steps after installing Nutanix CE - 8:40
Describing an issue with the web interface - 12:00
Resolving the web interface cert issue - 12:34
Limitation in Nutanix for shared storage - 13:30
My hunch on what Nutanix may offer in the future - 14:11
Wrapping up Nutanix Community Edition - 14:56
Nutanix Move Utility to migrate from VMware:
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@fossdom5568 2 месяца назад

Great to see Nutanix stuff (HCI), @work we just upgraded from G6 to G8s and my employer was Generous to give me 6 Nutanix G6 nodes for my home lab (1.5TB RAM ,64cores, 20-TB SSD storage ) rebuilding lab with RF1 ,with 3 nodes and on the other 3 will install Proxmox cluster , The sad thing is the CVM itself takes lot of resources … btw am NCA and NCP certificate

@nathanpowell1500 2 месяца назад

Thanks for highlighting Nutanix CE. I moved my homelab to it from ESXi. I am really happy with it. Disclaimer: I use AHV at work, and am motivated to get more familiar with it. It won't meet everyone's needs and it's great there are alternatives, but I am pretty happy for what I want to do. I'd like to get your thoughts on Calm (NCM Self Service), Blueprints and Karbon (NKE), their Kubernetes offering. After installing MetalLB I have been really happy with it as a homelab k8s solution.

@cyranoburleson4240 2 месяца назад

nice breakdown great tool. I've met the Nutanix team.

@akurenda1985 2 месяца назад

Just a neat fact - Nutanix isn't much cheaper than Vmware is now, and after you add the cost of their hardware requirements, it's not a cost saver.

@cjchico 2 месяца назад

Also Nutanix wants to be purchased so Broadcom could be evil by waiting until everyone moves then buy Nutanix too

@Darkk6969 2 месяца назад

Another reason to move to ProxMox and reuse the existing hardware.

@jeffnew1213 2 месяца назад

@@Darkk6969 Proxmox is not an enterprise solution. And companies that can afford ESXi are not moving anywhere, let alone to Proxmox. An enterprise data center is not a home lab.

@daeric 2 месяца назад

How’s support with Proxmox?

@Wikingdk 2 месяца назад

Eh. VMWare is much MUCH more expensive. And Nutanix is much more modern.

@DeNNiiiable 2 месяца назад

The community edition does not Allow gmail email accounts for registration. They should call it Business but dont use for business lite version if they intend to pull this stunt.

@TVJAY 2 месяца назад

I use Nutanix at my day job and think it is a nice system. That being said, I tried to install it for home use and it wouldn't even install for me (and I am not a novice). Because this is designed for HCI there will be some things home lab people won't like. External storage is one of those things as well as their requirement for at least three drives (1 - USB (boot), 1 - SSD (controller), 1 - HDD (storage)) per machine. I personally don't like the fact that a cluster requires 3 machines (not exclusive to them). I think a primary and secondary setup for home lab is a lot easier to do and works for most home users.

@mnemonic6047 2 месяца назад

HCD in storage configuration while installing, I use the CE and use it as a single node, the CVM eats alot of ram (9gb) and I only have 16gb, i'm tempted to run it as a homelab but i need more ram :3

@nardelis9797 28 дней назад

Legal software that collects personal and probably confidential data works like a virus. Be careful with passwords and important documents. Outgoing TCP ports 80 or 8443 opened through your firewall. That's why it's free

@KeithDavey2014 2 месяца назад

Can you review SuSE Havister some time?

@ewenchan1239 2 месяца назад

The lack of external storage support will also be a big no from me as well.

@Glatze603 2 месяца назад

Hi Brandon, thanks for your video about this interesting hypervisor solution. After watching your video, I can't say yet whether Nutanix can be a real alternative to Proxmox. I think I'll give Nutanix a try and we'll see. Maybe you'll have more videos about Nutanix, a comparison to Proxmox, etc. That would be cool 🙂

@KristianKirilov 2 месяца назад

What to compare with Proxmox, this is a rock solid platform with no limits. There is nothing to compare.

@VirtualizationHowto 2 месяца назад

@Glatze603 thank you for the comment! I definitely think it may not be for everyone. I definitely like its enterprise feel and options equivalent to VMware. However, I think for home lab it may be overkill for most. However, if you are looking at skills to apply to future job prospects, I think Nutanix is a great choice to learn.

@acolyte8564 2 месяца назад

No iSCSI or external storage? Thats a big na from me dawg.

@TheMadSqu Месяц назад

Afaik the Citrix Xenserver Trial edition is also free. Would like to see some infos about this as well. Thank you very much in advance!

@mooves12 2 месяца назад

PRISM looks a lot like XOA. Kudos to Nutanix for supporting the community.

@IanGSully 14 дней назад

I was originally running VMware ESXi for the longest time, and then after the god awful thing Broadcom did to us, then I switched over to Hyper-V. But now I am thinking of switching to Nutanix. I think Nutanix sounds kinda awesome if you as me!

@brennenmcminn2387 2 месяца назад

Nutanix certs just hit our approved list for my company to pay for them and to get bonuses if you pass so looks like I'm going to be building a new homelab

@mannyteixeira2660 Месяц назад

Yes Great. What about the backup. How to backup guest machine running on Lutanix?

@jeffnew1213 2 месяца назад

We had a number of clusters of Nutanix hosts at the office until mid-last year. They were rebranded Dell machines running ESXi. On top of ESXi, there's a control VM on each node and, of course, PRISM. The machines aged-out and we decided the systems were oddball enough (for our environment) to not warrant replacements from Nutanix.

@Darkk6969 2 месяца назад

Those servers could be repurposed to run ProxMox as a secondary system.

@jeffnew1213 2 месяца назад

@@Darkk6969 Proxmox in the enterprise? In my shop? Never in a million years. Those machines aged-out and were returned to Dell. They were replaced with 16th Generation PowerEdge boxes. Sapphire Rapids.

@TheJoBlackos 2 месяца назад

As mentioned in the video, Nutanix is an HCI, not a standard hypervisor. It is way more complex and includes tools which you cannot get on hypervisors. Their hardware patching will bring tears to your eyes, especially if you are dealing with the Dell OME or racadm. I am no even mentioning all the playbooks they have to health check the cluster. Or the more mature api than the VMware one

@jeffnew1213 2 месяца назад

@@TheJoBlackos Yes, it's a special child alright. Need support? Call Dell. Dell will work until they exhaust their options then involve Nutanix. Upgrade time? Special process. Additional stuff on top of ESXi: Management VMs and PRISM. And the cost? Jeez! Among a dozen or more senior engineers, all VMware certified, there wasn't a single fan. In a data center of 800 Dell hosts, the Nutanix were always special children, relegated to misc duties. When it came time to replace them, we just bought more Dells and never looked back. In a data center full of SAN and NAS, why HCI? Never made much sense.

@jeffnew1213 2 месяца назад

@@TheJoBlackos You say that AHV is way more complex than a standard hypervisor. I am not sure how that's true and in what regard. Is AHV more complex than VMware's VSAN?

@DeNNiiiable 2 месяца назад

Can you make a video with a setup start to finish that is resilient as first node? I find it crazy that each part must be in a different disk and it screams at you about non redundancy. a I understand the limit is 4 disks but I need 6 (2 each) for redundancy. in my test the prism fails and doesn't say why and you can't delete it but I will look into this later. Also, what are the recommended sizes for each type of role it requires for eg 50-100vm's? i will order in a quad nvme card and load that up to see how it will work.

@ierosgr 2 месяца назад

Even though you tried to be as descriptive as yo could be, you omit to mention the very basics of nutanix as a hypervisor. Does it need to be installed on Riad card ? Can it handle software raid like proxmox? What kinds of RAID does it support ... etc etc? Can you see where I m getting at? This should be the second / third video and not first / second.

@EdHatesNoobTubers 2 месяца назад

Can this be installed virtually on a normal PC? I have a gamer PC I hardly game, I dont want to format it . I would like to maybe install a virtual nutanix? can this be done maybe on virtual box or similar?

@danielmikkelsen4805 Месяц назад

Could you help me, I've booted the ISO from their page, just the ISO, and now it just boot into Linux with user Root without any popup about AHV or ESX.. What am I doing wrong?

@JoeyDee86 11 дней назад

I’d love HCI at home but I can’t seem to find anything interesting. Nutanix looks nice but the number of drive limit for CE is a buzzkill.

@allandresner 2 месяца назад

Have you tried to use Veeam with it?

@marrabou11 2 месяца назад

I have tried it at home, about 2 weeks ago, added AHV running on my Nutanix test VM to my Veeam Server, (Love the option to do hypervisor level backup), i tried taken a Linix VM, backup from my vSphere, and restore it onto my Nutanix VM no problems, i also tried the other way around still worked as intended.

@locusm 2 месяца назад

Whats the cost of the software once you want to migrate to a supported solution - say for a 3 node cluster?

@VirtualizationHowto 2 месяца назад

I think it is comparable to VMware (probably before their price hikes).

@kennybayram 2 месяца назад

Can you share iso link cant find it

@chromerims 2 месяца назад

Nice video 👍 Might check Nutanix HCI out down the road. But no external storage for now? . . . hmmm.

@VirtualizationHowto 2 месяца назад

Yes it is a bummer for now. I have a feeling they may change their minds in the near future (or at least I am hoping).

@antoonsorg 9 дней назад

Can this install by intern usb flash drive boot destroy the server because it does not boot in graphical mode but come with a terminal line. dl380g7 install failed.

@LampJustin 2 месяца назад

Uff seems like they're still running el7 😮

@BandanazX 2 месяца назад

I've seen a few job posts wanting Nutanix experience... so this is good. But the cynic in me expects another rugpull.

@davidknestrick4752 2 месяца назад

Proxmox n truenas all day long - docker swarm n k8s n call it a day!🥰✌️

@DonaldMolter 2 месяца назад

Hey a new video

@gelogia 2 месяца назад

Can it do P-to-V

@VirtualizationHowto 2 месяца назад

The Nutanix Move Utility as far as I can tell only works with other virtualized solutions: VMware, Hyper-V, AWS, etc.

@lordkappa 2 месяца назад

The mandatory control VM on every node is HUGELY wasteful for any modest homelab, it hoards 16GB of RAM and 4 cores for itself. And needing a cloud account just to use the web UI? No thanks. Fine for practicing on enterprise iron for a cert or for your job, but not as a core homelab platform.

@pepeshopping 2 месяца назад

NOP! They are for sale now that they posted their first profits. Open Source all the way!

@xprcloud 2 месяца назад

Deal breaker no external storage, you should have said so at minute 1, and saved me 14 minutes

@stefsmurf 2 месяца назад

Nutanix is fine if you're going for a super professional homelab, with the hardware to support it, but for just a regular or small homelab, no. The hardware requirements alone would basically disqualify most older nucs and thin clients that work surprisingly well on proxmox. (Honestly, 32 gigs for each node?) Then, requiring a membership as well just to trial the software just irks me. I know ESXi did as well, and I didn't like it either.

@Anuitu2u 2 месяца назад

Then, Proxmox? Xcp-ng? TrueNAS? I prefer proxmox. No nonsense. Fast installation. It just works for me.

@LtdJorge 2 месяца назад

@@Anuitu2u Yes, Proxmox. It has poor man’s HCI, with integrated Ceph, which works well enough. I hope I can build a 3 node Ceph cluster with used enterprise flash drives in the near future, and 40Gb networking. I’ve laid the foundation with one direct connection over 40Gb and a 10Gb network with a separate management switched network. Proxmox makes everything super easy. Next step is redoing everything with Terraform :D

@stefsmurf 2 месяца назад

@@Anuitu2u I mean, if you HAVE to use a Hypervisor, I would suggest Proxmox, since it'll install on anything that Debian would. If you prefer handholding, I would suggest Unraid, since the hardware requirements aren't too bad (4 gigs, twice as much as Proxmox requires. 2 storage places, which makes sense since it's NAS software. And AMD-VT or VT-x if you want to use vm. If you don't, then it's not required.) Honestly in terms of low hardware requirements, it's either Proxmox or just plain Linux distro with Cockpit installed. Those will be your least heavy hypervisor like software to use.

@davidknestrick4752 2 месяца назад

Proxmox n truenas all day long🥰✌️

@zackshaikh4601 5 дней назад

Thank you! for the video here, very useful. I have a question and hope you can answer. I have tried these steps to create a VM inside VMware ESXi and bare-metal, but both failed at the last steps, which required a reboot. it's terminating with the following message. 2024-06-14-18:55:26-UTC INFO Installing /usr/lib/python2.7/site-packages/foundation_layout-2.12.4+r.1704.5fa2273-py2.7.egg 2024-06-14-18:55:27-UTC WARNING Unable to detect directory with aurora [screen is terminating] Any idea?