A Nutanix Acropolis Cluster is the basic building block of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud Platform. Sometimes called AOS or referred to as HCI/hyperconverged infrastructure, a Nutanix cluster is where all the real magic happens and your workloads run. This topic, Cluster Configuration, reviews the processes and procedures to modify cluster level settings and options.
Access Nutanix Cluster Settings in Prism

Most Nutanix configuration items are performed at the cluster setting to ensure uniformity, reduce risk, and to make administration easier. Before you can make ...

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License a Nutanix Cluster

To take advantage of all the Nutanix features your organization has paid for they must license their Nutanix Acropolis Cluster. Licensing is performed by genera...

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Change Nutanix Cluster Name

Setting a unique Nutanix Cluster Name allows for administrators to identify which assets they are managing. Prism leverages the Cluster Name to distinguish what...

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Configure a Nutanix Cluster Data Services IP

Nutanix allows external access to Nutanix storage via IP by connecting to the Nutanix Data Services IP. External systems use the iSCSI protocol to connect to Nu...

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Configure DNS for a Nutanix Cluster

DNS allows for services and users to access resources through the network via names instead of IP addresses. Because network names are typically much easier to ...

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Configure SMTP for a Nutanix Cluster

Nutanix can automatically send email alerts if properly configured. Alerts can let both administrators, and Nutanix if Pulse is enabled, that something is wrong...

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Configure NTP for a Nutanix Cluster

NTP, or network time protocol, allows for devices to synchronize their clocks with a centralized time server. Nutanix relies heavily on time due to the fully di...

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Enable or Disable Nutanix Pulse

Nutanix Pulse is a part of the built-in monitoring and alerting system of Acropolis. Pulse, if enabled, will automatically send telemetry data to Nutanix and ev...

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Create a Nutanix Virtual Network

Nutanix, like all virtual platforms, leverages virtual networking to provide network resources to virtual machines. Creating virtual networks in Nutanix is very...

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Create a Nutanix Virtual Network with IPAM

Nutanix has native IPAM (IP address management) capabilities built right into Acropolis. IPAM allows for Acropolis to act as a DHCP server for VMs or containers...

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Upload an ISO Image to a Nutanix Cluster

ISO images, a virtual copy of CD / DVD media, typically contains software or operating system installation data and is widely used in virtual environments to pe...

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Upload a QCOW2 Disk Image to a Nutanix Cluster

QCOW / QCOW2 is the native virtual disk format used by QEMU enabled virtualization software, such as Nutanix AHV. The QCOW virtual disk image is a standard virt...

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Upload an OVA Virtual Appliance to a Nutanix Cluster

OVA files are a popular standard format used to shared Virtual Machines images across different architectures and platforms. Nutanix can leverage OVAs for use a...

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Upload a VMware VMDK Image to a Nutanix Cluster

VMDK files are VMware's native virtual disk format for the ESXi hypervisor. The VMDK disk file can be copied and import in to Nutanix to use as a virtual machin...

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