Nutanix#

Requirements#

Download the OVA file#

Download the OVA file for your release from the New Installation folder on the client portal.

To create the VM#

If running the Enterprise edition, you can import the Automate OVA.

However, for the Community Edition:

  1. Extract the ISO and VMDK file from the OVA using tar.

  2. Convert the VMDK file to qcow2, for example:

    qemu-img convert filename.vmdk filename.qcow2

    The qemu-img command is contained in the qemu-utils package on Debian based Linux distributions.

  3. The qcow2 file must be uploaded to Nutanix as a disk image.

  4. The ISO file must be uploaded to Nutanix as a CD-ROM image.

  5. Create the new VM and specify the respective hardware as per the Hardware specifications documentation.

  6. For the hard drives:

    1. Attach the ISO image to the default CD-ROM drive.

    2. Create a SCSI disk drive with the platform-boot*.qcow2 file attached.

    3. Continue to create the rest of the disks as per the hardware specifications, paying attention to the differences between the node types.

  7. Save the VM

  8. Boot the VM

Follow the standard deployment instructions through an open console session.

Next steps: