Customised redeployment of your Cluster
Customised redeployment of a Nutanix Cluster using OVHcloud tools
Customised redeployment of a Nutanix Cluster using OVHcloud tools
Last updated 13th December 2022
Find out how to repackage a Cluster with custom network settings in the OVHcloud Control Panel and API.
OVHcloud provides services for which you are responsible, with regard to their configuration and management. It is therefore your responsibility to ensure that they work properly.
This guide is designed to assist you as much as possible with common tasks. Nevertheless, we recommend contacting a specialist provider if you experience any difficulties or doubts when it comes to managing, using or setting up a service on a server.
If you have signed up to the Nutanix on OVHcloud BYOL offer and have activated licences on your cluster, you will need to uninstall your licences before you launch the redeployment. You can use this guide to manage your licences: Manage licences in your Nutanix on OVHcloud BYOL Offer cluster.
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:
Some IP plan addresses are reserved for the Load Balancer. They are still on the network XX.XX.XX.128/27
, i.e. the addresses between XX.XX.XX.129
and XX.XX.XX.158
of the network. They should not be used during redeployment.
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
.
192.168.10.1
, hypervisor IP address AHV 192.168.10.21
.192.168.10.2
, hypervisor IP address AHV 192.168.10.22
.192.168.10.3
, hypervisor IP address AHV 192.168.10.23
.192.168.10.111
.192.168.10.222
.192.168.10.128 to 192.168.10.159
.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
.
address 172.16.0.1
, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.21
.172.16.0.2
, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.22
.address 172.16.0.3
, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.23
.address 172.16.0.4
, hypervisor IP address AHV 172.16.0.24
.172.16.0.111
.172.16.0.222
.172.16.0.223 to 172.16.0.225
.172.16.0.128 to 172.16.0.159
.172.16.0.254
.We will redeploy a cluster with 3 nodes, as in Example 1 in the previous chapter, either from the OVHcloud Control Panel or from the OVHcloud API.
The Cluster redeployment operation cannot be undone. All data in the Cluster will be deleted, and a new admin account password will be generated and sent by email to the OVHcloud customer account holder.
In the OVHcloud Control Panel, click on the Hosted Private Cloud
tab, select your cluster below the Nutanix
category on the left-hand side, then click on Redeploy cluster
.
If you have subscribed to the Nutanix BYOL offer, a reminder will tell you not to forget to uninstall your licences. You can use this guide to manage your licences: Manage licences in your Nutanix on OVHcloud BYOL Offer cluster. When your licences are uninstalled, click Continue
.
Click Customise the Configuration
and click Next
Enter the information for each of your nodes, which are:
Then scroll through the window.
Leave these default settings :
Modify these values:
Then click Redeploy
.
Enter REDEPLOY
and click Confirm
.
The Cluster redeployment takes a minimum of two hours. Wait until you receive an email to the OVHcloud account holder before using the Cluster again.
The Load Balancer is reconfigured during redeployment, and points the FQDN address of the Cluster to the private address of Prism Central.
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
If you use the OVHcloud API to repackage your cluster with a Nutanix BYOL offer, you will not receive a message to notify you to uninstall your licences. Don't forget to do so. You can use this guide to manage your licences: Manage licences in your Nutanix on OVHcloud BYOL Offer cluster. After uninstalling your licences, you can redeploy your cluster with the OVHcloud API.
Use the following API call:
Enter this data:
FQDN name of your Nutanix Cluster
.Check the box
.The gateway IP address followed by the subnet mask
.Enter the following information below nodes:
IP address of the hypervisor of the first node
.IP address of the first node's CVM
.Then click the +
button.
Add the information for the second node:
IP address of the hypervisor of the second node
.IP address of the second node's CVM
.Click the +
button again.
Then add the information for the last node:
IP address of the hypervisor of the last node
.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.Number of the redundancy factor
in the redundancyFactor drop-down menu.version number of the cluster
in the version dropdown menu.Click Execute
to start the cluster redeployment.
The Cluster redeployment takes a minimum of two hours. Wait until you receive an email to the OVHcloud account holder before using the Cluster again.
The Load Balancer is reconfigured during redeployment, and points the FQDN address of the Cluster to the private address of Prism Central.
Manage licences in your Nutanix on OVHcloud BYOL Offer cluster
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