Nutanix

Each imported Nutanix cluster becomes a CMP environment.

Before you begin

• A Prism account with permission to create, read, update, and delete VMs.
• HTTPS access from CMP to Prism, on port 9440 by default.
• The Nutanix API version to connect with. Several features depend on it; see Features by API version.

Add a Nutanix resource handler

1. Go to Admin > Resource Handlers, select Add, then select Nutanix Acropolis under Private Cloud.
2. Complete the credentials fields described below, then select Continue. CMP checks the connection at this point.
3. Enter a Name, and under Import Nutanix Clusters, select at least one cluster. CMP creates an environment for each.
4. Complete any of the optional settings described below, then select Done.

The settings dialog also includes VM Names to Ignore, comma-separated regular expressions for VMs to exclude from syncs. With API version v4, it adds VM Tags to Include, and with v3 it adds Console feature.

Features by API version

The API version chosen on the handler decides what CMP can do with its servers.

For how static addresses are assigned on Nutanix networks, see IP address management for Nutanix.

Import clusters

To import clusters after the handler exists, open its Clusters tab and select Import clusters. Select clusters, then select Import selected clusters. To add another environment for an imported cluster, select the plus icon beside it and select Create.

Change an environment’s cluster

Each environment is tied to one cluster. To change it, open the environment, select Edit on its Overview tab, choose a Nutanix Cluster, then select Save. An environment with no cluster displays a warning on its Overview tab and cannot be used until a cluster is set.

Import images

CMP provisions from disk images in the Nutanix image service, and imports only disk images: ISO images are not listed. To import images, open the handler’s Images tab, select Import Images, then choose the images and select Import selected Images.

Networks

Import networks on the handler’s Networks tab. For how Nutanix-managed and CMP-managed addressing work, see IP address management for Nutanix.

Manage servers

From a server’s page in CMP, you can:

• Power it off and on, and reboot it.
• Change its CPUs and memory with Change Resources, and add disks and network interfaces, with API version v3 or v4.
• Create and revert to snapshots. See Snapshots.
• Run scripts with Ad Hoc Script.

Customize VMs during provisioning

With API version v3 or v4, CMP customizes a new server from one of two parameters, depending on the image’s operating system:

• Acropolis Sysprep File: a Sysprep answer file for Windows images. See Using Windows Sysprep with resource handlers.
• Acropolis User Data: cloud-init user data for Linux images.

Both are treated as templates, so values such as {{ server.hostname }} are filled in at build time.

Nutanix parameters

CMP creates these parameters when the first Nutanix handler is saved. Storage Container options are imported for each environment.

CMP sets the cluster on each environment when you import it.