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Gestión de las máquinas virtuales (EN) |
Discover virtual machine management in Prism Central |
2022-05-10 |
Find out how to manage virtual machines in a Nutanix cluster, and how to create and migrate a virtual machine.
Warning
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.
Some software requires a licence such as Microsoft products, so make sure that all installed systems and software have these licences.
- a Nutanix cluster in your OVHcloud account
- access to the OVHcloud Control Panel
- You must be connected to Prism Central on the cluster
The Nutanix system uses the same interfaces to manage storage and virtualisation, it can be installed with multiple hypervisors (Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, AHV). AHV comes with Nutanix without the need to purchase additional licences for the hypervisor.
The OVHcloud solution is delivered with the AHV hypervisor.
AHV enables:
- Using virtual machines on Windows and Linux.
- Migrating virtual machines from one node to another in a cluster.
- Micro-segmentation and network security between virtual machines using Flow software.
The Move tool makes it easy to migrate existing virtual machines in other environments (ESXi, Hyper-V & AWS) to Nutanix and its AHV hypervisor.
For more information on AHV, see the Go further section of this guide.
The following instructions show the creation of a virtual machine in Windows Server 2022 and the migration of a virtual machine.
Installing a virtual machine on Windows Server 2022 requires a particular setup because Microsoft does not provide the driver for the AHV hypervisor disk controller.
In the left-hand menu of Prism Central, expand Compute & Storage{.action} and click VMs{.action}
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Click the Create VM{.action} button.
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Type a name in Name{.action}, choose the options in VM Properties{.action} and click Next{.action}
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Click the Attach Disk{.action} button.
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Enter 60 in the Capacity field and click Save{.action} to create a 60 GB disk.
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The image must be imported before it can be used in a new virtual machine.
For more information on importing images, see the Go further section of this guide.
Click Attach Disk{.action}.
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Change the Type{.action} settings to CD-ROM, Operation{.action} to Clone from Image, Image{.action} to WS2022EN.ISO.
Click Save{.action}.
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This image contains the disk controller driver and should also be imported. It is available on the Nutanix website if you have a Nutanix customer account.
Click Attach Disk{.action}.
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Change the Type{.action} settings to CD-ROM, Operation{.action} to Clone from Image, Image{.action} to Nutanix-VirtIO-1.1.7.iso.
Click Save{.action}.
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Click Attach Subnet{.action}.
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Leave the default fields and click Save{.action}.
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Click Next{.action}.
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Select your timezone and click Next{.action}.
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Click Create VM{.action}.
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The newly created virtual machine will then appear in the dashboard.
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Select the virtual machine on which you want to install Windows Server 2022, by ticking the box to the left of the VM.
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Click the Actions{.action} menu then Power ON{.action}.
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Click the Actions{.action} menu then Launch Console{.action}.
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Choose your local settings and click Next{.action}.
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Click Install now{.action}.
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Select Windows Server 2022 Standard (Desktop Experience) and click Next{.action}.
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Review the Microsoft software licence terms and conditions, accept them and click Next{.action}.
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Click Custom: Install Microsoft Server Operating System only (advanced){.action}.
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Click on Load driver{.action}.
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Click Browse{.action}.
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Select the correct folder e:\Windows Server 2022\amd64 and click OK{.action}.
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Select these drivers:
Nutanix VirtIO Balloon Driver{.action}Nutanix VirtIO Ethernet Adapter{.action}Nutanix VirtIO SCSI pass-through controller{.action}QEMU FWCfg Device{.action}
Click Next{.action}.
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The 60 GB disk will appear, click Next{.action}.
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Enter and confirm the password in both fields and click Finish{.action}.
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Windows Server 2022 and WS2022 specific drivers for the AHV hypervisor have been installed.
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NGT are tools that enable better interaction with Nutanix, particularly in terms of backups and snapshots.
Start the virtual machine console, right-click a CDROM drive, and click Eject{.action}.
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Go back to Prism Central and select the virtual machine.
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On the Actions{.action} menu, click Install NGT{.action}.
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Click Confirm & Enter Password{.action}.
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Click Skip and Mount{.action}.
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Return to the virtual machine console and right-click the CDROM drive containing the NGT.
Click Install Nutanix Guest Tools{.action}.
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Review the terms and conditions, accept them, then click Install{.action}.
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The installation will then begin.
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Once the installation is complete, close the installation wizard using the Close{.action} button.
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The installation of a virtual machine on Windows is then complete.
Migrating a virtual machine involves moving a hot VM from one node to another in a cluster.
If you have several clusters and the appropriate licences, you can also migrate a VM from one cluster to another.
This guide only shows you how to migrate a VM within the same cluster.
In Prism Central VM Management, click WS2022N{.action}.
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Check which node the VM is currently running on. It is displayed next to Host.
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Click the More{.action} button, then Migrate{.action}.
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Choose a destination node.
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The name of the new node will appear in front of Host if the migration is complete.
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Presentation of a Nutanix cluster
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