Test Drive

Getting Started Guide


This guide will walk you through
a few examples to help you get
started with the Nutanix Community
Edition (CE). Enjoy your personal
cloud experience for the next
two hours and download the
full version to play for longer!
The Nutanix
Enterprise Cloud Platform
INITIAL STEP:
Once you have clicked on the link to launch the Test Drive instance, using the
Google Chrome web browser, log into the Nutanix Prism GUI.
DEMO 1: GET A NUTANIX OVERVIEW
Purpose: Explore the Nutanix Prism GUI.
1. Find information about the VMs and hosts on the Home dashboard
2. Pull up the node diagram in Prism on the Hardware page and identify
the number of HDD and SSD
a. Menu > Hardware > Overview
3. Identify the hypervisor that is running on the Nutanix Cluster
a. Menu > Home
DEMO 2: CREATE A CONTAINER
Purpose: Learn how the Nutanix system manages storage through containers
and storage pools (no more LUNs!).
1. Click on the gear menu and select Create Container (CE creates a default
storage pool but you can easily create additional ones as required)
a. Give the container a unique and recognizable name
b. Select Save
2. Select the container in Prism and look at the properties
a. Select Menu > Storage > Table > Container
DEMO 3: EXPLORE VMs AND NUTANIX CONTROLLER VM(s)
Purpose: Identify the controller VM (CVM) that runs as a user-mode
VM on the Nutanix enterprise cloud platform
1. Select Menu > VM > Table
a. See the list of VMs (once you have created some VMs)
2. Check the box Include Controller VMs on the top
a. In the Search in Table box, type cvm
DEMO 4: DISTRIBUTE EVERYTHING
Purpose: Look at how the Nutanix software distributes all data, metadata and services
1. Select Menu > VM
2. Locate the controller VM
3. Launch Remote Console into controller VM and pull up cluster status
4. Click Launch Console
5. Log in using the following username and password: Username =
nutanix Password = nutanix/4u
6. Type cluster status |more
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DEMO 5: CREATE A VM
Purpose: Create a VM using integrated VM management capabilities in Prism

1. Select Menu > VM

2. Click +Create VM Icon (top right of the screen)
a. Type in a name
b. Configure with 2 vCPUs, 1 core per vCPU, 2GB memory
c. +New Disk
i. Type = CDROM
ii. Operation = Clone from Image Service
iii. BUS Type = IDE
iv. Image = ubuntu-14.04
d. +New Disk
i. Type = Disk
ii. Operation = Allocate on Container
iii. Bus Type = SCSI
iv. Container = Default container
v. Size = 30GB
e. +New NIC
i. VLAN ID = vlan.0
f. Click Add
i. Click Save

VIDEO REFERENCES:
1. Getting Started with Community Edition
http://bit.ly/1UzKhAK

2. Download and Install Community Edition on a Virtualized Server

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TzCTxKxpz7M

3. Using the Image Service in AHV

https://youtu.be/8sJZXlOOMYY?list=PLAHgaS9IrJec_e_BeerY0IWjLmPnN4UQL

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