Older Nutanix hardware

[dTardis]

I have access to an old Nutanix G3. Its a 4 node supermicro chassis. Nutanix is no longer supporting this hardware so I thought I'd bring it into a lab to play with TrueNAS Scale. I'd like thoughts and opinions on doing this.

Each of the 4 nodes have the following"

2 xeon E5-2650
128 Gig Ram
2x 200GB- SSD
4x 1TB- HD

 

[Arwen]

Seems decent. Though if it is pretty old, it might have a side job as a space heater and jet engine noise simulator.

Does it have IPMI?
If so, it may be difficult to use, as many old IPMI used Java. Older IPMI tend to need specific versions of Java that are hard to find or use today.

 

[danb35]

If so, it may be difficult to use, as many old IPMI used Java.

Highly likely; that'd be a X9-series board, which also means the Java-based IPMI is not upgradable to the HTML5-based version that became available for the X10 and later boards. There's a Docker deployment that's supposed to wrap up all the necessary stuff and put it in a browser, but I wasn't able to make that work--but a Windows 7 VM with IE and some old version of Java works well enough.

 

[NickF]

Highly likely; that'd be a X9-series board, which also means the Java-based IPMI is not upgradable to the HTML5-based version that became available for the X10 and later boards. There's a Docker deployment that's supposed to wrap up all the necessary stuff and put it in a browser, but I wasn't able to make that work--but a Windows 7 VM with IE and some old version of Java works well enough.

You can use a flash enabled browser off of GitHub and an old version of Java without having to make a VM.

 

[dTardis]

It does have IMPI, but I don't think I'll need to use it.
How should I setup the storage?

 

[artlessknave]

Java-based IPMI

openwebstart replaces the java and javawebstart that oracle ate. it doesnt work with some of the oldest supermicros available, but those really shoud be replaced anyway. (x8dt6)