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Install Nutanix CE Nested on ESXi Walkthrough – Part 1

Install Nutanix Community Edition (CE) Nested on VMware ESXi v6.7 Walkthrough – Part 1

Register on the Nutanix community site:

https://next.nutanix.com/

Go here:

https://next.nutanix.com/download-community-edition-15/download-getting-started-with-ce-5-10-24210

Download:

Disk Image-based Full Install

http://download.nutanix.com/ce/2019.02.11/ce-2019.02.11-stable.img.gz

Hash: 092a9b7042ea3168732c09d4df15293e
Check it!

Extract the file

Install StarWind V2V Converter if you don’t have it.

-> Select Convert a local file

-> Browse to the .img file and then click Next.

You need to select a standard ESX server image .vmdk and not the growable one. I tried the growable one several ways and didn’t get it to work.

Notice that disk type is greyed out. That is okay.:

I suggest naming the file so that it matches the name of your virtual machine.

While it is converting, which will take a moment, go ahead and create the base VM. The following is the base configuration/minimum requirements:

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VMware ESXi – Two filesystems with the same UUID have been detected – Solved

The Error:
Two filesystems with the same UUID have been detected. Make sure you do not have two ESXi installations

Troubleshooting:

I recently got the above error and PSoD (Purple Screen of Death [similar to a BSOD in the VMware world…]) after a fresh install of VMware ESXi v5.5 u2a on a newly built white box.

The information found at this VMware KB was not helpful, in my case, aside from allowing me to reboot and finish booting into ESXi successfully:

  1. Restart the system.
  2. During the reboot, when the hypervisor screen appears, press Shift+O.
  3. In the boot option, type overrideDuplicateImageDetection and press Enter.

While I was able to boot in ESXi via the GUI, shell, SSH, and vCenter with no errors using this method, the PSoD reoccurs when you reboot. The various methods mentioned around the web didn’t work for me to FIX not workaround the problem.

The Fix:

Delete any partitions that remain on drives you’re not using.

My Method:

  1. Take notes about the drive where ESXi is installed (whether logical or physical) and any other Datastores you want to keep – the drive sizes will be your biggest giveaway.
  2. Go get yourself a fresh copy of the GParted Live Bootable CD ISO here: http://sourceforge.net/projects/gparted/
  3. Burn the ISO to a fresh blank CD
  4. Boot your ESXi box to the CD and let GParted load
  5. At the top right walk through each of the drives. If any partitions remain on drives you don’t want, delete all of the partitions on the drive.
  6. Make sure to apply all of your changes
  7. Reboot

In my case this completely solved the PSoD and the system is happy.

Good Luck,
Mike

P.S. If you get the following error when trying to create a datastore:

Call "HostStorageSystem.ComputeDiskPartitionInfo" for object "storageSystem-10" on vCenter Server "vcenter01" failed.

Cleaning off the old partitions will likely clear this issue as well.