What is a Prism Central
Prism Central is a single management plane for the Nutanix platform. Let you manage hundreds of Nutanix clusters (regardless of whether it is VMware vSphere or Nutanix AHV, cloud, or on-prem) and tens of thousands of virtual machines. Apart from standard Day2 operations like VM operations and networking. Prism Central can be used to manage the following services
NOTE: it is not an exclusive list.
- Nutanix Disaster Recovery
- Nutanix Networking Security
- Microsegmentation
- VPC (virtual private clouds)
- Capacity planning and forecasting
- Monitoring
- Automation using Nutanix Cloud Manager (formerly known as Calm)
- ITops using X-Play
- and a few more services
What’s new in Nutanix Prism Central 2022.6
Last week Nutanix released a new version of its management plane tool, Prism Central 2022.6. The release has several new features and a lot of security and bug fixes.
Refactored/Unified Projects – The refactored/unified Projects provide a consistent user experience irrespective of whether the user accesses it from Prism Central, that is, Administration -> Projects or from Services -> Calm -> Projects. Some of the new features include the new project dashboard, workload per project, usage statistics, and so on.
Cluster RBAC for Volume Group – Cluster role-based access control (RBAC) for Volume Group feature enables a super-admin user to provide Prism Admin and Prism Viewer roles access to one or more clusters registered with Prism Central. A user with a Prism Admin role can view and update the entities like volume groups and virtual disks from the allowed clusters. However, a user with the Prism Viewer role can only view the entities.
Sharing Entities in Prism
From this release Prism allows you to share the following entities:
- Analysis Session
- Capacity Scenario
- Dashboard
- Reports
