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Nutanix and vSphere deployment via vCenter Orchestrator

October 7, 2014

A few weeks back me and my colleagues Phil Ditzel and Artur Krzywdzinski was asked to create a customer demo including Nutanix and vSphere deployment. We decided to use vCenter Orchestrator (vCO) as the provisioning engine but this can be done via e.g PowerShell as well.

The following steps are included in the vCD workflow we created.

  • Setup Nutanix Cluster
  • Create Nutanix Storage Pool
  • Create Nutanix Container
  • Create vSphere Datacenter
  • Create vSphere Cluster including DRS and HA configuration
  • Add ESXi hosts to the vSphere Cluster
  • Create vSphere Cluster resource pool
  • Move Nutanix Controller Virtual Machines (CVMs) to the vSphere Cluster Resource Pool

The workflow requires a few input parameters including:

  • Nutanix Controller Virtual Machines (CVMs) IP addresses
  • Nutanix Storage Pool name
  • Nutanix Container name
  • vCenter Server datacenter name
  • vSphere Cluster name

Click the image to view the provisioning video

Screen Shot 2014-10-02 at 15.48.23

Important: This video was created for private usage and is not a corporate video.

This vCO workflow was created based on a customer request but additional steps can easily be added if needed. The customer already had a vCenter Server in place and didn’t want a new one so that’s the reason for not deploying a vCenter Server.

The video is recorded in a lab environment and not customer environment so that’s the reson for the empty vCenter Server.

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