Documentation forSolarWinds Platform Self-Hosted

Nutanix Hardware Health monitoring requirements

This topic applies only to the following products:

SolarWinds Observability Self-Hosted

SAMVMAN

Requirement Details
Software

These are the supported versions of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix for the latest version of VMAN (2025.1). To see supported versions of VMware, Hyper-V, and Nutanix for previous versions of VMAN, see previous version administrator guides. Please reach out to our support team for any questions about past versions and compatibility.

Supported versions of VMware server:

  • vCenter Server 6.0 Update 3b
  • vCenter Server 6.5 Update 1
  • vCenter Server 6.5 Update 2
  • vCenter Server 6.7
  • vCenter Server 6.7 Update 1
  • vCenter Server 6.7 Update 2
  • vCenter Server 6.7 Update 3
  • vCenter Server 7.0 (VMAN 2020.2 and later)
    • vCenter Server 7.0.2 and higher (VMAN 2020.2.5 Hotfix 1 and later)
  • vCenter Server 8.0 (VMAN 2023.1 and later)

Supported versions of Hyper-V and Windows Server:

  • Windows Server 2012 R2
  • Windows Server 2016
  • Windows Server 2019
  • Windows Server 2022 (VMAN 2020.2.6 Hotfix 5 and later)
  • Windows Server 2025 (VMAN, SAM, HCO 2025.1 and later)

Supported versions of Nutanix:

  • Nutanix AOS 5.10
  • Nutanix AOS 5.11
  • Nutanix AOS 5.15
  • Nutanix AOS 6.1.1
  • Nutanix AOS 6.5.1 (VMAN, SAM, HCO 2023.1 and later)
  • Nutanix AOS 6.5.3.6 (VMAN, SAM, HCO 2024.2 and later)
  • Nutanix AOS 6.8.1 (VMAN, SAM, HCO 2024.4 and later)
  • Nutanix AOS 6.10 (VMAN, SAM, HCO 2024.4 and later)

Hypervisors

Nutanix Acropolis HyperVisor (AHV)

Microsoft® Hyper-V 2008 R2

VMware vSphere®

Polling

For Hyper-V and AHV, polling occurs via the Nutanix Command Line Interface (CLI).

For ESXi, polling occurs via the Common Information Model (CIM).

Credentials

Collect Nutanix credentials for AHV nodes, as well as Hyper-V and VMware hosts.

Controller VM (CVM) credentials require privileges to connect via SSH to hosts and execute Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) commands.

SolarWinds Platform supports NCC 4.5 and later.

API access

The SolarWinds Platform main polling engine or Additional Polling Engine (APE) — whichever polls the node — must have access to the Nutanix AOS API (© 2021, Nutanix, available at https://portal.nutanix.com, obtained on December 22, 2021).

The SolarWinds Platform uses a combination of AOS API v1 and v2.

Did you know that SAM now includes an API Poller feature? Click here for details.

Ports

SSH port for Nutanix Hardware Health polling: 22

Communication port for Nutanix API: 9440

Subnet

All CVMs and hypervisor hosts must be on the same subnet. A hypervisor can be multi-homed as long as one interface is on the same subnet as the CVM.

If Intelligent Platform Management (IPMI) interfaces are connected, they should be on the same subnet as CVMs and hypervisor hosts.

Guest VMs can be on a different subnet.

Nutanix port requirements

Port Protocol Service/Process Direction Description Encryption
22 SSH SolarWinds Job Engine v2 Outbound

The port used for Nutanix hardware health monitoring.

 
9440 HTTPS and TCP SolarWinds Cortex Bidirectional Communication between polling engines and the Nutanix AOS API. TLS 1.2