Nutanix Community Edition Home Lab

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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@nathanpowell1500 3 ай бұрын

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.

@fossdom5568 3 ай бұрын

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

@TVJAY 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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 Ай бұрын

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

@DeNNiiiable 3 ай бұрын

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.

@cyranoburleson4240 3 ай бұрын

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

@akurenda1985 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@Darkk6969 3 ай бұрын

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

@jeffnew1213 3 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

How’s support with Proxmox?

@Wikingdk 3 ай бұрын

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

@ewenchan1239 3 ай бұрын

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

@acolyte8564 3 ай бұрын

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

@mooves12 3 ай бұрын

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

@Glatze603 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@VirtualizationHowto 3 ай бұрын

@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.

@KeithDavey2014 3 ай бұрын

Can you review SuSE Havister some time?

@TheMadSqu 2 ай бұрын

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!

@JoeyDee86 Ай бұрын

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.

@jeffnew1213 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@jeffnew1213 3 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

@@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?

@IanGSully Ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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 2 ай бұрын

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

@DeNNiiiable 3 ай бұрын

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.

@danielmikkelsen4805 2 ай бұрын

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?

@chidanandkallibaddi1955 15 күн бұрын

same problem if you get solution please let me know

@ierosgr 3 ай бұрын

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 ай бұрын

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?

@kennybayram 3 ай бұрын

Can you share iso link cant find it

@antoonsorg Ай бұрын

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.

@BandanazX 3 ай бұрын

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

@espressomatic 15 күн бұрын

Looks like it was designed by a middle manager on their off-days of using Excel and MS Paint. Which is the issue with a lot of this software, including Proxmox, the KZfaq darling of hypervisor OSes.

@davidknestrick4752 3 ай бұрын

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

@allandresner 3 ай бұрын

Have you tried to use Veeam with it?

@marrabou11 3 ай бұрын

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.

@LampJustin 3 ай бұрын

Uff seems like they're still running el7 😮

@lordkappa 3 ай бұрын

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.

@AzaamBasheer 10 күн бұрын

Hey, any hacks to install Nutanix in VMware workstation?

@locusm 3 ай бұрын

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

@VirtualizationHowto 3 ай бұрын

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

@chromerims 3 ай бұрын

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

@VirtualizationHowto 3 ай бұрын

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).

@DonaldMolter 3 ай бұрын

Hey a new video

@gelogia 3 ай бұрын

Can it do P-to-V

@VirtualizationHowto 3 ай бұрын

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

@pepeshopping 3 ай бұрын

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

@xprcloud 3 ай бұрын

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

@stefsmurf 3 ай бұрын

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 3 ай бұрын

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

@LtdJorge 3 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

@@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 3 ай бұрын

Proxmox n truenas all day long🥰✌️

@zackshaikh4601 Ай бұрын

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?