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Nutanix Community Edition Home Lab – Is it good?
Nutanix Community Edition Home Lab – Is it good?
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Nutanix Community Edition is a free solution that you can download and run in your home lab on your own hardware. Is it a good fit for home lab environments? Are there any limitations to note with the solution?
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I've seen a few job posts wanting Nutanix experience… so this is good.
But the cynic in me expects another rugpull.
The underlying issue is that VMware has set a precedent. By completely changing their licensing model and disrupting the plans of many individuals and small to medium-sized businesses, VMware has opened the door for similar actions from other companies. Someday, even Nutanix could follow suit. Another company like Broadcom could acquire Nutanix and change the landscape entirely, mirroring what happened with VMware. Open-source solutions, on the other hand, are less susceptible to this kind of upheaval. Even if their model were to change, the work done up to that point, being under an open license, could be picked up by others and the project could continue. In the worst-case scenario, since many of the tools behind open-source hypervisors are the same, migrating from one open-source solution to another is simpler.
Regarding the issue you mention 12min in. Type thisisunsafe anywhere on the window and the browser will let you visit the page.
PRISM looks a lot like XOA. Kudos to Nutanix for supporting the community.
Whats the cost of the software once you want to migrate to a supported solution – say for a 3 node cluster?
Nutanix not to much cheaper than vm ware. I recently went to xcp-ng + xo from sources and wouldn't even think about proxmox anymore.
NOP!
They are for sale now that they posted their first profits.
Open Source all the way!
The lack of external storage support will also be a big no from me as well.
No iSCSI or external storage? Thats a big na from me dawg.
Hey a new video
nice breakdown great tool. I've met the Nutanix team.
Have you tried to use Veeam with it?
I was curious about trying it. We almost went with a Nutanix solution at work a few years ago. I’ve been looking around at hypervisor options too, especially with this ESXi drama going on. At the end of the day I’m not going to touch it if there’s no ability to connect external storage. That’s an absolute deal breaker for me. Probably not the best move on the part of Nutanix since a lot of us tech peeps are in positions to recommend various solutions to our corporate overlords too. If you can’t run it at home, you can’t evaluate it well, you can’t learn it well, therefore you look at other options. Simple as that.
Thanks for highlighting Nutanix CE. I moved my homelab to it from ESXi. I am really happy with it. Disclaimer: I use AHV at work, and am motivated to get more familiar with it. It won't meet everyone's needs and it's great there are alternatives, but I am pretty happy for what I want to do. I'd like to get your thoughts on Calm (NCM Self Service), Blueprints and Karbon (NKE), their Kubernetes offering. After installing MetalLB I have been really happy with it as a homelab k8s solution.
The community edition does not Allow gmail email accounts for registration. They should call it Business but dont use for business lite version if they intend to pull this stunt.
Great to see Nutanix stuff (HCI), @work we just upgraded from G6 to G8s and my employer was Generous to give me 6 Nutanix G6 nodes for my home lab (1.5TB RAM ,64cores, 20-TB SSD storage ) rebuilding lab with RF1 ,with 3 nodes and on the other 3 will install Proxmox cluster , The sad thing is the CVM itself takes lot of resources … btw am NCA and NCP certificate
Uff seems like they're still running el7 😮
Nutanix is fine if you're going for a super professional homelab, with the hardware to support it, but for just a regular or small homelab, no. The hardware requirements alone would basically disqualify most older nucs and thin clients that work surprisingly well on proxmox. (Honestly, 32 gigs for each node?) Then, requiring a membership as well just to trial the software just irks me. I know ESXi did as well, and I didn't like it either.
Can you review SuSE Havister some time?
I use Nutanix at my day job and think it is a nice system. That being said, I tried to install it for home use and it wouldn't even install for me (and I am not a novice). Because this is designed for HCI there will be some things home lab people won't like. External storage is one of those things as well as their requirement for at least three drives (1 – USB (boot), 1 – SSD (controller), 1 – HDD (storage)) per machine. I personally don't like the fact that a cluster requires 3 machines (not exclusive to them). I think a primary and secondary setup for home lab is a lot easier to do and works for most home users.
Deal breaker no external storage, you should have said so at minute 1, and saved me 14 minutes
Can it do P-to-V
We had a number of clusters of Nutanix hosts at the office until mid-last year. They were rebranded Dell machines running ESXi. On top of ESXi, there's a control VM on each node and, of course, PRISM. The machines aged-out and we decided the systems were oddball enough (for our environment) to not warrant replacements from Nutanix.
Hi Brandon, thanks for your video about this interesting hypervisor solution. After watching your video, I can't say yet whether Nutanix can be a real alternative to Proxmox. I think I'll give Nutanix a try and we'll see. Maybe you'll have more videos about Nutanix, a comparison to Proxmox, etc. That would be cool 🙂
Just a neat fact – Nutanix isn't much cheaper than Vmware is now, and after you add the cost of their hardware requirements, it's not a cost saver.