Nutanix Support for VMware

If you have a Nutanix™ Cluster with ESXi as your hypervisor, you can enable Nutanix support for PowerChute in the PowerChute Setup wizard.

Enable Nutanix Support

To enable Nutanix support, open the PowerChute Setup wizard and follow the steps below.

Select Nutanix from the Hyperconverged Infrastructure Support drop-down list in the vCenter Server Details screen and click Next.

The Accept Untrusted SSL Certificates checkbox is unselected by default. If left unselected, only SSL certificates signed by a trusted CA will be accepted when connecting to vCenter Server and ESXi hosts. By default, these certificates are self-signed and this will cause a cause connection error. This is for increased security and to prevent man-in-the-middle (MITM) type attacks. Select this checkbox if you want to use untrusted/self-signed SSL certificates to connect to vCenter Server and ESXi hosts.

Alternatively, you can add the vCenter Server root CA certificate to the PowerChute-keystore by following the steps detailed in the vCenter Server Settings topic.

In the CVM/Cluster Details screen, enter your Nutanix credentials to connect to your Controller Virtual Machine or Cluster. The recommended configuration is to connect to your Nutanix Cluster.

You can authenticate the connection by entering either the CVM/Cluster IP address and a password, or a SSH key file path. If both authentication options are specified, PowerChute will use the password to connect to the Controller VM/Cluster.

NOTE: You must use the "nutanix" user account credentials to connect to the Cluster/CVM. You cannot use Prism user account credentials to connect.

The SSH key file, if configured, must be located in the user_files folder, or a sub-folder, in the PowerChute installation directory. If the default installation directory was chosen during installation, this location will be:

C:\Program Files\APC\PowerChute\user_files for Windows systems
/opt/APC/PowerChute/user_files/ for Linux systems

NOTE: If you are upgrading to PowerChute v4.4, any SSH key files used in a previous version of PowerChute must be manually added to the user_files folder. If the key files are not added to the directory, you will see the below error in the Event Log:

ERROR: The ini contains an invalid value for ssh_keyfile_path in nutanixClusterDetails.

It is strongly recommended you validate your configuration after an upgrade.

When you have entered your credentials, click Next to connect to your Controller VM/Cluster.
If the connection to your Controller VM/Cluster is successful, you will be directed to the Virtualization Settings screen where you can configure your Nutanix settings. These settings can later be edited in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.

Nutanix Virtualization Settings

When Nutanix support is enabled, additional sections will appear in the Virtualization Settings screen in the PowerChute UI.

For more information on these sections, see: