Dear supporter,
May I have your confirmation on if Foreman can integrate with Nutanix? Can create VM in Nutanix? If yes, could you provide with installation document. Thank you
BR
Tom Chien
Hi,
I’ve moved your thread to the “Support” section from “Development”.
And to answer your question: no, we do not have Nutanix Compute Resource support.
You can of course manage systems running on Nutanix (and provision if you use Bare Metal style provisioning with PXE etc), but the creation needs to happen outside of Foreman.
Hi @evgeni , thank you for your prompt response. Could you explain more on the last sentence? Thank you
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You can of course manage systems running on Nutanix (and provision if you use Bare Metal style provisioning with PXE etc), but the creation needs to happen outside of Foreman.
Sure! Let me point at our provisioning documentation at Provisioning hosts
But here is a high level overview:
- when you have virtualized hosts (be it on VMware, Nutanix, libvirt or some in cloud like EC2 or GCE), your flow to create new ones is often “hey $api, please give me a machine with these specs: …”
- in many cases the “provisioning” of the OS then happens from a template disk and you only need to pass in some details like ssh keys etc
- when you have bare metal hosts, there is no API and also no template, you put the machine in the rack and then either boot it from the network or an installation medium that then installs the OS on the local disk
- Foreman supports both of those methods (template/image based and network/install medium boot)
- You can treat Nutanix as “bare metal” (you go to the Nutanix UI, create a new VM, set it to boot from network) and Foreman will take care of the OS installation, totally oblivious to the fact that the machine is a VM on Nutanix
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Hi @evgeni ,
Similar to the previous question, may I confirm if Foreman support hyper-v?
Does Foreman has hyper-v computer resource? Thank you
Same story, I think. Use it as “metal”