Users Guide

Boot error message for missing SD card

The Dell appliance has only one SD card. When you start the appliance, you may see the following error message:

The secondary SD card is missing, not responding, or in write-protected mode. Do one of the

following:

Install an SD card media in the secondary SD card slot.

Reseat or replace the SD card media.

3 If the secondary SD card is intentionally not installed or write-protected mode is expected,

then no response is required.

The message is a known issue and you can ignore it.

Deployment outline

The ow of tasks in deploying the XC Series Hyper-Converged Appliance is shown here.

Figure 4. Deployment workow process.

First time boot scripts for Nutanix Acropolis

Nutanix Acropolis appliances have been per-congured and do not require additional rst-time boot conguration. These appliances boot to

the hypervisor and are ready to be clustered after the CVM has all services up and running.

Creating a storage cluster

• Use the Nutanix web-based tool to create a Nutanix storage cluster from all locally discovered nodes that are ready to be clustered.

During this process, the following parameters are set:

– Cluster maximum Redundancy Factory (RF)

– Cluster name

– Cluster virtual IP (optional for AHV)

– Subnet mask and default gateway (iDRAC, hypervisor and CVM)

– Domain Name Server(s) (DNS)

– Hypervisor hostnames

– Node IPs (iDRAC, hypervisor and CVM)

– Re-installation of new hypervisor and CVM (optional with Nutanix Foundation CVM)

• Option to create Nutanix storage cluster manually using command line interface.

Deploying your appliance