This script supports staging HPoC clusters for Nutanix Workshops. It automates the majority of the Workshop Setup Guide. After HPoC Foundation, you can have push-button Calm in about half an hour!

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Table of Contents

• Available Workshops
• HPoC Cluster Reservation
• Staging Your HPoC
  • Interactive Usage
  • Non-interactive Usage
  • Validate Staged Clusters
• Authentication

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Available Workshops

1. Calm Introduction Workshop (AOS/AHV 5.5+)
2. Citrix Desktop on AHV Workshop (AOS/AHV 5.6)

See the WORKSHOPS list at the top of stage_workshop.sh.

HPoC Cluster Reservation

Make your new reservation on https://rx.corp.nutanix.com/ with:

• AOS + Hypervisor: proper versions for your workshop, specified above
  • Recommended: AOS and AHV 5.8
  • Older or newer versions may not function as expected
• VM Images: you do not need to specify images (CentOS, Windows2012, etc.) for your reservation

Staging Your HPoC

All clusters must be Foundationed prior to Workshop staging.

This script should be run from a host on the corporate/lab network, such as a CentOS VM running on an HPoC cluster or your laptop with VPN access. Execute the following:

git clone https://github.com/nutanixworkshops/stageworkshop.git
cd stageworkshop
chmod +x stage_workshop.sh

Next, you'll need to create or reuse and update a text file (e.g.: example_pocs.txt) containing your cluster IP and password details. It's easiest to create this file in the same directory as the stage_workshop.sh script. Input files must use the following format:

<Nutanix Cluster #1 IP>|<Cluster #1 Password>|first.lasty@nutanix.com
<Nutanix Cluster #2 IP>|<Cluster #2 Password>|example@nutanix.com
...
<Nutanix Cluster #N IP>|<Cluster #N Password>|example@nutanix.com

For example:

10.21.1.37|nx2Tech123!|you@nutanix.com
10.21.7.37|nx2Tech517!|me@nutanix.com
#10.21.5.37|nx2Tech789!|first.last@nutanix.com <-- The script will ignore commented out clusters
10.21.55.37|nx2Tech456!|se@nutanix.com

Finally, execute the script to stage the HPOC clusters defined in your text file.

Interactive Usage

./stage_workshop.sh

Running the script interactively will prompt you to input the name of your text file containing your cluster IP and password details. You will then be prompted to choose a Workshop to stage.

Non-interactive Usage

./stage_workshop.sh -f [example_pocs.txt] -w [workshop number]

Each staging option will deploy:

• all images required to complete a given workshop
• a domain controller (ntnxlab.local)
• Prism Central
• configuring AHV networks for your Primary and Secondary VLANs.

Ask questions not covered here to the Global Sales Technical Enablement team via Slack, review the pinned items in each channel first:

• #technology-bootcamps: for customer and prospect bootcamps
• #hands-on-workshops: for Nutanix Partner and SE workshops

Validate Staged Clusters

After staging (~30m), you can re-run the stage_workshop script and select "Validate Staged Clusters" to perform a quick check to ensure all images were uploaded and that Prism Central was provisioned as expected.

Example:

./stage_workshop.sh
Cluster Input File: example_pocs.txt
1) Calm Introduction Workshop (AOS/AHV 5.6)
2) Citrix Desktop on AHV Workshop (AOS/AHV 5.6)
3) Change Cluster Input File
4) Validate Staged Clusters
5) Quit
Select an option: 4
10.21.44.37 - Prism Central staging FAILED
10.21.44.37 - Review logs at 10.21.44.37:/home/nutanix/config.log and 10.21.44.39:/home/nutanix/pcconfig.log

Authentication

One can use Windows Server: Active Directory, but for simpler and faster results, the automation leverages AutoDC.