In this post, I will show you how to get CE 5.18 deployed as a nested VM running on a VMware ESXi 7.0U1 host. The ESXi host, which I used, is an Intel NUC 10 (NUC10i7FNH2), which is configured with 64GB RAM and a 1TB NVMe M2 SSD (Samsung 970 EVO).
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Nutanix Medusa Error: Cassandra Gossip Fails
I want to share an interesting issue that I came across when expanding an existing Nutanix cluster with a new node. All installation tasks completed successfully until the Medusa service on the new CVM gave an error stating “Cassandra gossip failed”.
Nutanix IPMI ADMIN Account: New Default Password
This is a short post to raise awareness amongst my fellow Nutanix engineers & users regarding the changed policy on the default password for the ADMIN account to access the IPMI (out of band management) portal on new Nutanix NX nodes.
Nutanix Community Edition 5.18 with VMware ESXi 7.0U1 nested in VMware Fusion or Workstation
In my last post I showed you how to deploy Nutanix Community Edition 5.18 nested inside VMware Fusion (or Workstation). That nested deployment was based on the native AHV Hypervisor from Nutanix. But now, I want to show you another great new feature of this new CE 5.18: deploying it based on VMware ESXi 7.0U1.