So I’ve failed my first attempt at migrating. I was just using a single machine to test Foundation with, and for whatever reason, I keep getting the same error. I’m running the Foundation Portable, which is a Windows program that supposedly has everything the Foundation VM has. But it doesn’t. For some reason, when it starts, it cannot start the built-in NFS server. I’ve enabled SMB v1 AND NFS as suggested, and still no dice.
I can install CE, no problem. But then the hardware management feature isn’t there. I like the idea of a single plane of view to manage keeping all your devices updated. I feel defeated, but I am not giving up yet.
I’ve tried Foundation Portable on Windows 11, and Windows Server 2019. I’m going to next try on Windows 10. Here’s the error, just in case someone else has seen it (on starting Portable Foundation):
2024-06-17 23:15:47,598Z console: Starting nfs server: <Thread(Thread-2, initial daemon)>
INFO:console:Starting nfs server: <Thread(Thread-2, initial daemon)>
2024-06-17 23:15:47,608Z console: failed to start nfs server: No module named 'rpc'
ERROR:console:failed to start nfs server: No module named 'rpc'
I’m hoping to get the Foundation VM to try. Otherwise, I guess I will have to go the CE route. More work that way — manually installing on each node, manually creating the cluster, changing the drives to be hardware passed through, etc. But maybe, I should this way just to learn more of the inter-working?
edit: Just for reference, someone said it may be the hardware. First — it doesn’t even attempt to connect to the CIMC interface. There’s no network traffic over the interface. The error I get is when Foundation first starts. And of course, there’s a new version available, but I cannot get it. And it’s not just the hardware features of LCM, it’s other things as well. First, I think I am actually going to have to edit my plan and install ESXi on top of Nutanix initially so I can have access to external storage. I will reinstall, mount the datastores via iSCSI, move the VMs to the Nutanix-managed storage, then migrate the cluster. And from everything I read, ESXi on CE isn’t supported (The installer tells you) and while you CAN get it to work, there are all kinds of problems.
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