NetApp SAN Configuration Questions

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1 hour ago, Mikensan said:

What I couldn't really find any information on is how nutanix handles nodes with different sets of hardware. With vmware they have EVC via vCenter, so would nutanix be able to support this? It's an issue I have now since one server has a L5520 in one server and an X5670 in another. Looks like OP has a mixture and possibly in a similar scenario. Is CVM (besides being a storage controller) a replacement for vCenter?

It's KVM so it'll have all the capabilities that has, with what ever extras the have added. For KVM you are able to set the CPU features a VM can see etc just like EVC.

 

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/6/html/Virtualization_Administration_Guide/sect-libvirt-dom-xml-cpu-model-top.html

https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/7/html/Virtualization_Deployment_and_Administration_Guide/sect-Managing_guest_virtual_machines_with_virsh-Guest_virtual_machine_CPU_model_configuration.html

https://wiki.qemu.org/Features/CPUModels

 

I've not really used Acropolis much myself as we use ESXi for our Nutanix hosts.