Customised redeployment of your Cluster

Last updated 10th June 2022

Objective

Find out how to repackage a Cluster with custom network settings via the OVHcloud API.

Requirements

• a Nutanix Cluster in your OVHcloud account
• access to the OVHcloud Control Panel
• access to the OVHcloud API page

Introduction to using the private network for a Nutanix Cluster at OVHcloud

Before redeploying a Nutanix Cluster, you must define a private network with its subnet mask, as follows: XX.XX.XX.XX/XX.
You then need to choose IP addresses within this scope.

The list of required IP addresses varies depending on the number of servers ordered (the solution offered by OVHcloud ranges from 3 to 18 nodes) and the configuration mode of Prism Central (Alone or Scale).

Here are the details:

• Between 6 and 36 IP addresses for physical servers (requires two addresses per server, one for the AHV hypervisor and another for the CVM virtual machine).
• An IP address for Prism Element.
• An IP address for the IP address of Prism Central.
• 3 optional IP addresses for Prism Central scale-mode deployment with 3 virtual machines.
• An IP address for the Internet gateway.

Here are two possible examples of Nutanix cluster configuration at OVHcloud:

Example 1: Reconfiguring a cluster with 3 nodes on an IP plan in 192.168.10.0/24.

• Server 1: VM address CVM 192.168.10.1, hypervisor IP address AHV 192.168.10.21.
• Server 2: VM address CVM 192.168.10.2, hypervisor IP address AHV 192.168.10.22.
• Server 3: VM address CVM 192.168.10.3, hypervisor IP address AHV 192.168.10.23.
• Prism Element virtual address: 192.168.10.111.
• Prism Central IP address: 192.168.10.222.
• Scope reserved for the load balancer: 192.168.10.128 to 192.168.10.159.
• Gateway: 192.168.10.254.

Example 2: Reconfiguring a cluster with 4 nodes in Scale mode for Prism Central on an IP plan in 172.16.0.0/16.

• Server 1: VM CVM address 172.16.0.1, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.21.
• Server 2: VM address CVM 172.16.0.2, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.22.
• Server 3: VM CVM address 172.16.0.3, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.23.
• Server 4: VM CVM address 172.16.0.4, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.24.
• Prism Element virtual address: 172.16.0.111.
• Prism Central IP address: 172.16.0.222.
• VM Prism Central: 172.16.0.223 to 172.16.0.225.
• The load balancer: 172.16.0.128 to 172.16.0.159.
• Gateway: 172.16.0.254.

Instructions

We will redeploy a cluster with 3 nodes, as in Example 1 in the previous chapter.

Log in to the OVHcloud API. For more details on how the OVHcloud API works, please refer to our guide on Getting started with the OVHcloud APIs

Use the following API call:

Enter this data:

• ServiceName: FQDN name of your Nutanix Cluster.
• redeploycluster: Check the box.
• gatewayCidr: The gateway IP address followed by the subnet mask.

Enter the following information below nodes:

• ahvip: IP address of the hypervisor of the first node.
• cvmip: IP address of the second node's CVM.

Then click the + button.

Add the information for the second node:

• ahvip: IP address of the hypervisor of the second node.
• cvmip: IP address of the second node's CVM.

Click the + button again.

Then add the information for the last node:

• ahvip: IP address of the hypervisor of the last node.
• cvmip: IP address of the last node's CVM.

Then scroll through the browser window with the scroll bar.

In the Prism Central Configuration section, check Define property and Empty array.
Choose alone from the type drop-down menu and enter The IP address of Prism Central in the vip drop-down menu.

Then enter:

• The IP address of Prism Element in the prismElementVip drop-down menu.
• The Number of the redundancy factor in the redundancyFactor drop-down menu.
• The version number of the cluster in the version dropdown menu.

Click Execute to start the cluster redeployment.

Go further

Using the OVHcloud API

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