Nutanix network port diagram
I spent some time to produce small Visio with Nutanix ports diagram to visualize interaction between Nutanix software components (CVM, Prism Central), hardware (SuperMicro IPMI – it is remote management console like HP iLO, Dell DRAC) and hypervisor (in this case VMware ESXi and Nutanix Acropolis hypervisor AHV). Some of you might ask, where is vCenter or SCVMM ? Well, Nutanix don’t need to “talk” to vCenter or SCVMM in order to run :-), we do not relay on vCenter or SCVMM at all. What we need is, talk to hypervisor, in this case ESXi, AHV and Hyper-V – all three supported by Nutanix. Communication between CVM and VMware ESXi, Nutanix AHV fly over SSH that’s why when you run Nutanix you can’t disable SSH on either ESXi or AHV.
Components on the diagram:
- CVM – controller VM – the distributed brain of Nutanix solution, the core of the web-scale.
- Foundation – Nutanix provisioning tool. It does provision and configure automatically CVM and hypervisor as well as create Nutanix cluster, create storage pool, container and mount container into ESXi as datastore. check my two-part series about Nutanix Foundation
- Prism Central – customers can manage many Nutanix clusters across many locations from a single pane of glass using the simple and intuitive Nutanix Prism Central interface. Read more about Prism Central.
- IPMI – remote management console like HP iLO, Dell DRAC but for SuperMicro servers. I used to work with iLO and DRAC and must say IPMI is far faster form those two mentioned.
- ESXi – hypervisor
- AHV – Acropolis Hypervisor
- Azure and AWS – Nutanix supports public cloud providers as target for backup and DR
- Administrator – it is Admin workstation
- AFS – Acropolis File Server
Nutanix network port diagram with VMware ESXi – infrastructure services included.
Download Nutanix ESXi network port diagram in PDF
For full list of vCenter and ESXi ports check out VMware documentation and KB articles:
Nutanix network port diagram with Acropolis (AHV) – infrastructure services included.
Port Description
- 22 – SSH
- 443 – SSL
- 2074 – NGT (Nutanix Guest Tools) to CVM
- 8000 – Nutanix foundation page
- 9440 – PrismUI (including RestAPI calls, PoSH, remote ncli)
Download Nutanix Acropolis network port diagram in PDF
Nutanix network port diagram with Microsoft Hyper-V – infrastructure services included.
Download Nutanix and Hyper-V network port diagram in PDF
Nutanix network port diagram for Disaster Recovery between two Nutanix clusters as well as backup from Nutanix cluster to Azure and AWS
Read more about Nutanix Data Protection and Nutanix backup to cloud support
Download Nutanix DR and backup, network port diagram in PDF
Nutanix network port diagram for Acropolis File Server
Port Description
- 2100 – genesis operation on AFS
- 3205, 3260 – stargate iscsi access
- 7501 – access AFS services on CVM
- 7502 – access minerva service running on AFS
- 9440 – send rest calls to CVM
ChangeLog:
- Sep. 19 2014 – initial version
- Jul. 17 2015 – added Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor – AHV
- Jul. 21 2015 – updated Nutanix and VMware ports diagram v 0.4
- Aug. 04 2015 – removed ports 80 and 443 (communication from Admin WS to CVM) on AHV and ESXi diagrams
- Aug. 04 2015 – added port 2220 on AHV diagram
- Aug. 22 2015 – added IPMI ports to all diagrams and Nutanix and Hyper-V diagram
- Dec. 08 2015 – added DR ports diagram
- May. 03 2016 – update Nutanix port diagram with Hyper-V, SCVMM communication ports has been added
- May 27 2016 – Acropolis File Server diagram added
- June 23 2016 – added port 2074 for NGT (nutanix guests tools) communication to CVM
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