Nutanix

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Available from 9.2.17. Nutanix is one of the virtualization technologies supported by License Metric Tool.

Purpose

Nutanix solutions are built on the hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) technology. Nutanix Acropolis is a foundation of Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform that provides built-in virtualization, storage services, networking and cross-hypervisor application mobility. Nutanix supports all of the leading hypervisors, including virtualization solutions from VMware, Microsoft, Citrix, and the native Nutanix hypervisor, AHV (Acropolis Hypervisor) which is a native virtualization solution that supports IBM Power and x86 based hosts depending on version.

Requirements

You must have the Prism Viewer role to read information on virtualization structure.

AHV support

  • 9.2.17 Support for Linux® guests on AHV 5.10+ on IBM® Power® CS appliances, managed by Nutanix PRISM. AIX® guest is not currently supported.
  • 9.2.18 Support for Linux and Windows™ guests on AHV 5.10+ on x86 appliances, managed by Nutanix PRISM.

Prism

Nutanix Prism is a management pane that provides unified interface for Nutanix clusters. It is used to monitor and manage entities across Nutanix clusters through a web console. It allows to run a mixed environment, or easily switch hypervisors to meet changing needs.

PRISM Element
  • Supported API version: PRISM Element API v2.0
  • Default URL: 
    https://{manager-address}:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v2.0
Figure 1. Nutanix PRISM Element


9.2.41 PRISM Central
  • Supported API version: Nutanix Intentful API v3.1.0
  • Default URL:
    https://{manager-address}:9440/api/nutanix/v3
Figure 2. Nutanix PRISM Central

The screen shows how the License Metric Tool server collects data from Nutanix.

Supported versions

For information about supported versions, go to IBM License Metric Tool 9.2 - Supported Operating Systems and click Supported Hypervisor.