📄️ Overview
This field installation guide, created for a fictitious Managed Services Provider (MSP) called RS Tech Services, enables field engineers to efficiently perform initial deployments of Nutanix Community Edition at customer sites, reducing the need for calls to senior technical personnel.
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📄️ What is Community Edition?
Nutanix Community Edition is a free version of Nutanix’s Acropolis Operating System (AOS), which runs Nutanix’s Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) platform. Community Edition consists of the following components:
🗃️ Recommendations
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📄️ Install Cluster
Before proceeding, ensure the node’s boot device is set to USB in BIOS (if you are using a USB boot device). Typically, you will need to press a function key or the escape key to enter the BIOS settings. The hotkey needed typically displays during POST. If it does not, consult the hardware vendor instruction manual.
📄️ Destroy Cluster
Destroying a cluster resets all nodes to the state they were in before the cluster was created. This process also destroys all guest VMs.
📄️ Appendix
Glossary and Acronyms
📄️ References
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