Deployment Guide

18 Dell EMC XC Xpress Hyper-Converged Appliance Deployment Guide for ESXi | A02
6 About cluster creation
The following tasks outline the details of creating the cluster using Nutanix Foundation. For the sections below
refer to the Deployment Checklist for required information.
6.1 Discovering appliances with Nutanix Foundation Applet
The Nutanix Foundations Applet provides a graphical user interface for discovering the XC430 Xpress
appliances.
1. From the management workstation, navigate to the folder where you downloaded the Nutanix
Foundation zip file.
2. Extract the all files to the same folder.
3. Double-click the nutanix_foundation_applet.jnlp file.
Note: It may take several minutes for all appliances to be discovered even after they have successfully
booted for the first time.
4. Verify that all XC Xpress appliances have been discovered by the Foundation applet by verifying the
Service Tag (Serial Number) in the Foundation applet (Figure 5).