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The document discusses running Nutanix Foundation in Windows using a portable version. It describes downloading the Nutanix Foundation beta version as a Windows MSI file, installing it through a wizard, and manually launching the Foundation process from Windows. Once started, the Foundation GUI can be accessed through a web browser. This allows configuring and managing Nutanix clusters directly from a Windows laptop.

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Run Nutanix Foundation in Windows (Portable Foundation) - InfraPCS

The document discusses running Nutanix Foundation in Windows using a portable version. It describes downloading the Nutanix Foundation beta version as a Windows MSI file, installing it through a wizard, and manually launching the Foundation process from Windows. Once started, the Foundation GUI can be accessed through a web browser. This allows configuring and managing Nutanix clusters directly from a Windows laptop.

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Run Nutanix Foundation in Windows


(Portable Foundation)
Nutanix Foundation is the tool used for Nutanix Field Installation, it could be used in below scenarios:

1. Configure and create a new Nutanix cluster; and


2. Re-image the new Nutanix node to expand the existing cluster.

From Foundation version 4.3, there is an option to run Foundation in Windows (which is named portable
foundation).

The beta version could be downloaded from Nutanix support site with file name foundation-4.3.2-windows-
beta.msi. (Around 1.55 GB in size)

Installation

The installation process is straight forward to double click the foundation-4.3.2-windows-beta.msi and follow
the wizard.

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Launch the Portable Foundation.

The portable Foundation will not launched automatically. It is required to start manually from Windows.

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After the Foundation process is started (can be checked from Task Manager), launch the browser and navigate
to http://localhost:8000/gui/index.html, the Portable Foundation is there.

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Now, you can connect your laptop to the related switch or Nutanix node to start the configuration.

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