Deployment Nutanix Witness VM on ESXi

Deploy the ova

You can change the ip in the following config-file

$ sudo vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

change the parameters

NETMASK=“255.255.255.0″

IPADDR=“10.10.10.10″

BOOTPROTO=“none“

GATEWAY=“10.10.10.1″

$ sudo reboot

After the reboot please enter folliwing comand to create the witness (as a witness)

$ cluster -s 10.10.10.10 –cluster_function_list=witness_vm create

Register the witness in the nutanix menu and set the witness at the protection domains.