Prism Element Flashcards
what are elements of the hardware summary widget
- Number of hosts
- Number of blocks
- Hardware model
Prism Element widgets
- Hypervisor
- Prism Central
- VM Summary
- Storage Summary
- Health
- Hardware Summary
- Critical Alerts
- Warning Alerts
- Info Alerts
- Events
- Cluster CPU USage
- Cluster memory Usage
- Data Resiliency Status
- Cluster wide controller IOPS
- Cluster wider controller latency
How do I get details on the hardware confirguration?
Menu > Home > Hardware > Diagram
How do I see all VMS running on the cluster?
Menu > VM > Table
Whya re controller VMs not appearing in y list of VMs?
CVMs are hidden by default.
What are containers in DSF?
- Storage policies
- Not physical disk
- Datastore in ESXi
- Thin provisioned
Data writing policy
data is written with replication factory by default 2
Data reading policy
Data is read locally (data locality)
Data locality considerations
- Automatic
- Not strictly enforced
- Only impact reads
AOS
Acropolis OS = CVM’s OS
Prism
1) Prism Element
2) Prism Central
3) Prism Pro
Prism Element
1) GUI used to manage single cluster
2) Run on all CVMs
3) Built-in
Prism Central
- Single or 3 VM
- Manage multiple clusters from same UI
Prism Pro
- Advanced features of prism central
- Available as add-on
Prism Central Features
- Global VM Management
- capacity Forecasting
- What if modeling
Review Health Checks
Click on Health Widget
Health Check entity types
1) VMS
2) Hosts
3) Storage Pools
4) Storage Containers
5) Cluster Services
Basic Health Check Navigation
1) List of health checks displayed on the right
2) Filtering of health check at top right corner
3) Click on a health check to see its details
Add a node to Nutanix cluster
Settings > Expand cluster > IPv6 Discovery
What happens if node being added is node on same version as cluster?
it will be reimaged
