Monitoring and Managing the Environment

Now that we have our Nutanix cluster configured and the workloads are deployed and protected, we can learn about how to monitor and manage our Nutanix cluster.

One-Click Cluster Upgrade

What is it?

  • Automatically upgrade Nutanix software non-disruptively with no manual intervention
  • Automatically upgrade hypervisors non-disruptively with no manual intervention
  • Automatically upgrade firmware non-disruptively with no manual intervention

Key Points:

  • Automatic sequencing of reboots
  • Done in minutes with zero touch
  • No downtime while upgrade happens
  • As easy as upgrading iOS
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One-click Hypervisor Conversion

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Simple Cluster Expansions

Expand the cluster by adding nodes at any time with the ease of a few clicks.

Can expand a cluster while it’s running.

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Prism Central Dashboards

What is it?

  • Custom Dashboards
  • Widget Based
  • Full Drill-down
  • Exec Summary Reports

Benefits:

  • Important Summarization
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Network Visualization

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Prism Self-Service

What is it?

  • Self-service access to IT resources
  • IT sets policies and provides access to end users such as developers

Components:

  • Admin Portal: Create projects, set policies, assign users
  • End User Portal: Deploy and monitor applications

Benefits:

  • Frictionless service delivery
  • Developers empowered to get AWS like experience
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Nutanix Calm

Part of The Nutanix Solution Stack

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Prism Central Report Managing and Machine Learning Capability

With PC Machine learning you can:

  • Analyze resource usage over time.
  • Monitor resource consumption.
  • Identify abnormal behavior.
  • Take advantage of guided resource planning.

With report management you can:

  • Configure and deliver the historical reports containing information about the infrastructure resources.
  • Gain operational insights of your infrastructure into your mailbox according to the schedule that you have configured.
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Actionable Capacity Forecasting

What is it?

  • Detailed capacity trends
  • Intelligent recommendations
  • Powered by patent pending X-FIT algorithm

Key Points:

  • Enables pay as you grow capacity expansion
  • Eliminates guesswork
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Just-In-Time Forecast

What is it?

  • Machine learning based forecast that predicts capacity expansion to meet future workload growth
  • Planning of expansion based on existing/new workload demands
  • Powered by X-FIT

Benefits:

  • Pre defined workload friendly inputs to save planning time and avoid hassle
  • Enables pay as you grow capacity expansion
  • Eliminates guesswork
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Rich and Insightful Analytics

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VM Management for ESXi

What is it?

  • ESXi Management from Prism
  • Does not displace vCenter

Use Prism for common use cases:

  • VM Create
  • VM Update
  • VM Delete
  • VM Power On/Off Ops
  • Launch console
  • Clone

Key Points:

  • Consumer-grade virtualization management across different hypervisors
  • Unified management plane for virtualization, storage and compute
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Video Demonstration: Cluster Software Update

This demo shows how easy it is to upgrade a Nutanix cluster. Software upgrades are non-disruptive to the environment and can be performed at any time.

Cluster Upgrade - https://youtu.be/_dzyaWbRkAQ

Video Demonstration: Cluster Expansion

This demo shows the ease with which a cluster could be expanded through the addition of one more node into the demo environment.

Cluster Expansion - https://youtu.be/qg0vU48d5XA