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title: "Joining NIOS Virtual Appliances to the Grid"
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Nutanix can be deployed with elastic scaling and without elastic scaling. To deployment without elastic scaling follow steps 1-3 and for procedure to deploy using elastic scaling, follow steps 1-2 and then the procedure described in section *Joining Grid Members in Deployments with Elastic Scaling*.

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# Accessing the NIOS CLI Using the Serial Console

1. In the Nutanix Prism web console, select the NIOS virtual instance.
2. Click the **Launch Console** button at the bottom of the VM table.