Cisco B-Series B200 M5 Nutanix Compatibility

[oabbas]

Hi there,

I have been doing an extensive search regarding the compatibility of Cisco B-series servers with Nutanix, and I've found that it used to be compatible with B-Series M4 only, but now it's reached its EOL (https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/compatibility-interoperability-matrix).

I am in a situation where I have two Cisco B200 M5 servers currently running VMware ESXi connected to two 6200 Fabric Interconnects (I know that the minimum number of nodes for a Nutanix cluster is three). Is there any possible way to deploy a Nutanix AOS cluster or to deploy & manage AHV without AOS on these servers? If yes, is there any guide for this deployment?

Thanks

[marce1000]

 - Look at the Cisco equipment mentioned in https://dcparts.net/hardware-support-and-maintenance-nutanix-cisco-ucs/
    the M4 is listed the M5 not which confirms your assertion , I guess you will need to contact Nutanix 'TAC' for
   an authoritative answer , 

 M.

[Riaan van Niekerk]

What leads you to believe that M5 is not supported? https://www.nutanix.com/products/hardware-platforms/specsheet?platformProvider=Cisco lists Mt.

This Nutanix Field Installation Guide for Cisco UCS M4 and M5 Servers mentions M5 blades. Cisco are certifying M6 & M7 for Nutanix with ESXi & AHV as per the Cisco HCL. I am assuming that pre-M6, Nutanix performed the certification/validation, or leveraged the Cisco HCL entries for ESXi when running Nutanix AOS on ESXi.