Overview
OneIQ Pulse for Datacenter supports collecting configuration and performance data from Nutanix Prism Central for clusters, hosts, storage pools, and virtual machines. Network flows can also be captured from the underlying network infrastructure supporting Nutanix.
The following versions are supported:
Nutanix Prism Central: pc.2020.7 or higher
Acropolis Operating System (AOS): 5.15.3 or higher
Hypervisors:
AHV: 20170830 or higher
VMware ESXi: 6.7 or higher
Prerequisites
Deploy OneIQ Pulse for Datacenter and ensure that it meets System Requirements.
Read-only user for Nutanix Prism Central, which can list and gather configuration and performance data from all entities
Discover Nutanix Prism Central
OneIQ Pulse allows Nutanix Prism Central endpoints to be discovered by IP or hostname using an authorized read-only user account. Discovering Nutanix Prism Central allows monitoring the resources of all managed clusters, hosts, VMs, and storage containers.
In the Select Discovery Target, choose Nutanix.
Enter the following information for Nutanix Prism Central:
FQDN hostname or IP as Prism Central Address
Read-only Prism Central Username and Prism Central Password
Click Create to initiate discovery
Add a certificate to the trusted list if Nutanix Prism Central is being discovered for the first time by clicking Trust.
Upon successful discovery, a new Nutanix tile will appear in the Dashboard with the following information:
Hostname or IP address
Username
Status
Repeat the steps above for each Nutanix Prism Central instance.
OneIQ Pulse only displays tiles for discovered Nutanix endpoints. Configuration and performance data for Nutanix clusters, hosts, storage pools, and virtual machines are available in the OneIQ Portal.
What's next?
Use OneIQ Pulse to discover other supported data center platforms and collect network flows to identify dependencies.
Cloud-native platforms inside the data center can be connected using the following OneIQ Pulse connectors: