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dave15Explorer
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CE install failed in VM - failed to start AHV firstboot script

Trying to install CE edition in a VM to test with, single node installISO mounts fine and installs, gets to the reboot prompt then fails to start AHV firstboot script  I took a look at the firstboot log, shown below Any help much appreciated 2024-03-07 16:21:57,622 INFO  Running cmd ['touch /root/firstboot/phases/expand_boot_partition']2024-03-07 16:21:57,625 INFO  Running cmd ['/sbin/iscsi-iname']2024-03-07 16:21:57,631 INFO  Running cmd ['/sbin/restorecon -R /etc/iscsi']2024-03-07 16:21:57,637 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh version']2024-03-07 16:21:58,076 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh net-list --all']2024-03-07 16:21:58,116 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh net-list --all']2024-03-07 16:21:58,156 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh net-define /root/net-VM-Network.xml']2024-03-07 16:21:58,199 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh net-start VM-Network']2024-03-07 16:21:58,239 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh net-autostart VM-Network']2024-03-07 16:21:58,280 INFO  Running cmd ['virsh net-list --all']2024-03-07 16:21:58,320 INFO  R

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2 months ago
TimGaray
TimGarayTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Powershell cmdlet Connect-PrismCentral is failing

I am working on converting my scripts to Powershell 7.x. I tried to use the Nutanix cmdlets 2.0.1 provided for Prism Central. Attempting to connect to Prism Central is failing. Six months ago I played around with it and it worked then but now does not.Our main Prism Central instance is pc.2023.1.0.2. We also have a test instance which is pc.2023.4. I get the same error when attempting to connect to either.PS H:\Scripts\Nutanix> Connect-PrismCentral -Server MLBPRISMTST1.cs.myharris.net -Credential $AdminCred -AcceptInvalidSSLCertsConnect-PrismCentral: Error from MLBPRISMTST1.cs.myharris.net: Could not connect. Please make sure to the remote server is Prism Central.PS H:\Scripts\Nutanix> Connect-PrismCentral -Server MLBPRISMTST1.cs.myharris.net -Credential $AdminCred -AcceptInvalidSSLCerts -ForcedConnectionConnect-PrismCentral: Error from MLBPRISMTST1.cs.myharris.net: Could not connect. Please make sure to the remote server is Prism Central.I am not encouraged by the Reddit post I

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TimGaray
2 months ago
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orlandoferrazWayfarer
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Is there any way to download the Nutanix Guest Tools ISO?

Want to download ISO NGT . Same process like VBox_Tools for example .

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JeroenTielen
2 months ago
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GcompVoyager
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Installing Nutanix CE 2.0 Test Bench Server

Greetings All,I am new to the Nutanix world (VMware refugee). We have a small vSphere deployment with 3 ESXi hosts (6 functional guests) being backed up via Veeam (on-prem). I am considering replacing this with Prism and AHV also backed up via Veeam. This would seem rather straight forward but it is not proving to be at the moment. Working with the CE installer and following along with the YouTube video by Nutanix University I keep getting stopped by various issues that do not align with what seems to be known issues. The first was the Realtek driver (I deactivated the onboard NIC and replaced with an Intel Server NIC). I am able to ping the AHV but the CSM is not running so I cannot get past the 6:50 point in the video which is ping the CSM. I should mention that I selected to install the AHV to nVME1, Data to nVME2 and CSM tonvME0. Interestingly if I altered the devices, I ran into different issues like first boot failures so I am wondering if there is a communication issue with the

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2 months ago
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GcompVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Installing Nutanix

Greetings All,I am new to the Nutanix world (VMware refugee). We have a small vSphere deployment with 3 ESXi hosts (6 functional guests) being backed up via Veeam (on-prem). I am considering replacing this with Prism and AHV also backed up via Veeam. This would seem rather straight forward but it is not proving to be at the moment. Working with the CE installer and following along with the YouTube video by Nutanix University I keep getting stopped by various issues that do not align with what seems to be known issues. The first was the Realtek driver (I deactivated the onboard NIC and replaced with an Intel Server NIC). I am able to ping the AHV but the CSM is not running so I cannot get past the 6:50 point in the video which is ping the CSM. The test server specs are as follows:Intel Core i9 12900k3 nVME drives (1TB each)64GB DDR4 memoryIntel I350T2V2 Server NIC

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2 months ago
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BoomschtickVoyager
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Brand New Install. No Web Gui

Hello all!  My work uses Nutanix in a three node cluster, but I didn’t have anything to do with setting it up.  For my home, I’m installing CE on a Lenovo workstation with a Xeon E-2134 processor, 16 gigs of ram (getting more).  I installed the CVM to a 250 gig Samsung.  I have a 500 gig SSD and a 12 TB HDD set for data drives.  The hypervisor installed to a USB 3 drive.The install didn’t throw any errors, but neither the host (10.3.0.5) nor the CVM (10.3.0.7) have a web interface.  Checking those IP’s there’s no port 80 or 443 open.  I can SSH into the AHV host, but that’s it.  I’m not sure what to do from there.  I saw something about running the cluster command from the cli, but the AHV doesn’t have that.I’m sure that I’m missing something basic.

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2 months ago
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MCUSAADAMVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Container settings for vdi non persistent

I am running 220 non persistent vdi desktops with it’s own designated container.I have compression enabled, but I was wondering in the real world is anyone running deduplication as well.

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2 months ago
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Yuan FengVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Issue Logging in via NEXT account

Hi guys,After installation and login into the Prism Element, I could not login via the NEXT account. May I know what can I do to resolve it. I have no Active Directory services on hand as this is my home lab testing. 

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3 months ago
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jallamasc01Explorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Unable to install Enterprise or CE

Hi Next!I've been trying to deploy Nutanix on three HPE DL380 G10 without success.Hardware config is exactly the same on the 3 nodes, 2 x Platinum 8260Mm 1 TB RAM, 6 X 3.82 SSD drives, 4 port onboard 1 Gbps NIC (not used), 1 x Infiniband adapter (not used) and 2 x 2 port HP CN 1100R 10Gbps SFP+ cards. All firmware update with latest available PSP (september 2023). First tried Foundation, version 5.5 with installer package fraser-6.5.5.1 and with either ESX 7, ESX8 (HPE Cutomized ISOs) and AHV version integrated in the installer package. Foundation timeout after several retries, and checking iLO server console looks like the installer is not able to assign IP addresses to any network interface so foundation VM is not able to contact the server. If I try to manually assign IP addresses after foundation fails it returns an error indicating that eth5 to eth8 (10 GBps ports) file is not available. If I try to deploy using phoenix ISO (created from foundation VM / with ESX and also with AHV)

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2 months ago
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insanwinWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Nutanix AOS_ESXi installation getting failed through Foundation

I'm trying to install “AOS+ESXi” on Dell XC6320 Node, through Foundation VM. but installation is getting failed with below errors. Exception: This node is expected to have exactly 1 HBA with pci id 9005:028f. But phoenix could not find any such device2024-02-12 10:43:42,845Z ERROR Exception in running <ImagingStepRAIDCheckPhoenix(<NodeConfig @bcd0>) @b8b0>Traceback (most recent call last):  File "foundation/imaging_step.py", line 160, in _run  File "foundation/imaging_step_misc_hw_checks.py", line 154, in runException: Couldn't find hardware_config.json DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepRAIDCheckPhoenix(<NodeConfig @bcd0>) @b8b0> from RUNNING to FAILEDDEBUG Setting state of <InstallHypervisorESX(<NodeConfig() @bcd0>) @b4c0> from PENDING to NRWARNING Skipping <InstallHypervisorESX(<NodeConfig() @bcd0>) @b4c0> because dependencies not met 

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2 months ago
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AkborVoyager
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Removing failed node

Hi everyone,We had an issue with SATADOM on of the nodes, which has been replaced.  Unfortunately, we had to rebuild the CVM as well as they hypervisor and now need to add the rebuilt node back to the cluster.  The problem is we can’t remove the existing node as we are getting the following error:Error: Cannot mark node for removal. Node xx (xx.xx.xx.xx) is to be added back to metadata storeDoes anyone know how we can overcome this error?P.S. we don’t have Nutanix support coverage anymore.Many thanks in advance.Akbor 

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3 months ago
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PietroKVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

SFP transceiver matrix for NX-1175S-G8-4314-CM

I ask if J9150A-OEM it’s supported.ThanksPietro

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2 months ago
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PeterRoozeVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

HP 360 GEN 10 Fails | Special Device /dev/sda2 doesn't exist.

I keep getting the following error while trying to install Nutanix CE. All disks have been formatted. There is no raid setup initialized.2x HP 1TB disk.2x Samsung 870 500Gb SSD's.Any Idea what can cause this, and how to fix it? Couldn't find any related topics.

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3 months ago
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rockketlauncherVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Install Proliant DL360 GEN9 error installation

Hi,I want to install on Proliant GEN9 but i have error at the installation: I dont have a RAID on this server.

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3 months ago
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neyrignouxAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Unable to remove crashed host from the cluster

I have a AHV host who crashed suddenly and does not want to start again 🙄.Like he is in a test environment i tried to remove it from the cluster with ncli command. Host remove-start id=0005f4c2-012c-5363-0000-000000019191::6 force=trueCommand failed because RF2 not permit to remove 1 of the 3 hosts cluster.I decided to reinstall this host with Foundation with new IP’s and new host name.Then, via Prism, i expanded the cluster with this new installed host.A new host appears to be added in cluster, but his status stays as “NEW”…I was hoping that by adding a new host to the cluster, I could then remove the one that crashed 🤔Why this new host stay in status “NEW”?Thanks for your help.

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3 months ago
klayne
klayneExplorer
posted in Installation & Configuration

Does NGT fail to install on your Linux VM? Here's what I found...

If you’ve tried to install (specifically):CentOS Stream 9 Red Had Enterprise Linux 9.x server Debian 11and encountered issues with running the installer scripts, you are more than likely missing packages that the NGT install scripts are dependent on. Debian 11.xDebian was pretty simple to troubleshoot in my case. The setup_python.sh script would error in the first few lines. The first thing I found was that Debian 11 did not come preinstalled with bash, it only had a symbolic link that pointed bash => dash. So after installing bash and running the script with bash setup_python.sh, instead of the typical ./setup_python.sh, the script ran up until the next error which was thrown because the python tarball was failing to unzip. This was a result of xz was not being installed.Solution:# install dependenciesapt install -y xz-utils bash# from the source directory of the installer scriptsbash setup_python.sh CentOS 9/RHEL 9First thing I noticed again, was an issue with tar. My minimal inst

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klayne
3 months ago
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Abdulrahman AldhayanAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Separate Mgmt traffic from VMs traffic

Hello everyone, I want to separate the management traffic to different interface and make vs0 interface for VMs communication. So, I understand that I have to create new vs which is in my case will be vs1 but then what is next, how to assign it to be the management port. And another question, is it ok to use the shared IPMI port and make it the management port or I shouldn’t use it and make it free. BR,

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JeroenTielen
3 months ago
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Bobby DVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Community Edition Installation

Hello, I just  acquired a 3 node nutanix chassis. I have not had experience with a system like this and was wondering if there is an installation guide for setting up the hardware and getting CE installed & configured using all 3 nodes as a multi-node cluster.Here’s the model of the system: NXS2U4NL12G500

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JeroenTielen
3 months ago
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TimG-RAFMWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Virtual Machine already Moved from Hyper-V

Hello, I have tried to move a Windows 2016 server VM from Hyper-V to AHV. Move would not configure the move automatically because WinRM wasn’t running.Manually installing the agent gave me the following:Firewall: Inbound port [8087] is openService state: [Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management] is not running. Starting service…Service install failed. Please check logs at [location]The log:Log file created at: 2024/01/22 08:50:30Running on machine: reaperBinary: Built with gc go1.18.10 for windows/amd64Log line format: [IWEF]mmdd hh:mm:ss.uuuuuu threadid file:line] msgE0122 08:50:30.724796   11652 service.go:396] Could not access service: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.E0122 08:50:30.740733   11652 service.go:433] Service start failed for [vmms] When I looked at the VM in Hyper-V there was a note saying that the VM had already migrated, so the target VM in Nutanix must have moved but the application clearly failed so we rolled back to the Hyper-V.Is there a way

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Moustafa Hindawi
3 months ago
Khalidologist
KhalidologistVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

From VMW to NTNX

Hi Gurus, Is NTNX CE will allow me to explore all NTNX technologies and features? I am shifting skills from VMW to NTNX so my question is if I have a physical server how many of CEs I can install as nested and learn NTNX and to which level I canPlease help me demystifying NTNX 

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Kcmount
3 months ago
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RavenHawkTechVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

New Installation of Nutanix CVM not accessible

I’ve created a VM within Proxmox, I’ve been able to log into AHV but the Web Portal and CVM are not Accessible they are on the same networks. 

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Kcmount
3 months ago
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ShehabALIPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration

VMs not accessible when attached 2 vNICs with two different VLANs

Hello, We have two Nutanix box each one has a node, both of them are connected to one physical switch.The Scenario is: We have one VM with Windows Server 2019 that has a File Server solution that needs to be accessible for two different VLANs (10.9.61.xx && 10.9.64.xx)The Steps that we did.1- Created one virtual switch "vs0" with Active-Back2- Created 3 VLANs on the same switch "Vlan0, VLAN 61, and VLAN 64".3- Attached 2 vNICs with VLAN 61 and 64 to that VM.The issue is: that we are unable to access the server from the "user device that is part of VLAN61 or 64".  but accessible from VLAN 0 if attached to the VLAN 0.

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Jamie Terrell
4 months ago
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JohannyAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration

CVM rebuild NX-1065-G5

Hello,I Hope finding some help here, I have a now freshly outdated 3 nodes NX-1065-G5 on AOS 6.5.2 LTS with Starter License, recently a SSD crashed on a node and CVM failed.My nutanix portal is now closed, and documentation access is restricted...Cluster is in production with now no resiliency,I manage to find a new accepted SSD and start the phoenix repair process to rebuild the CVM.CVM started now successfully, wrong management IP after phoenir repair, so I set it up in /etc/sysconfig/ifcfg-eth0 OK, now I can ping it, BUT CVM didn’t rejoin the cluster.What can I do to make my CVM fully operationnal and getting again resiliency ? Thanks you,A desesperate IT guy.    

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4 months ago
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LinKanTrailblazer
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When will Lenovo HW support AOS 6.7.1 with ESXi 8.0?

Dears:I saw AOS 6.7.1 is released right now with support ESXi 8.0. But only NX, HPE and DELL are now supported hardware platforms. When will Lenovo support this? Thanks!

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5 months ago
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GodabaWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Want to upgrade Firmware for NX- Esxi host

Hi Team,can any one please guide me through, how upgrade Firmware for Esxi hosts and cautions to be take care.And what are all the aspects we can upgrade the firmware.Our Model Hosts : G5, where can I look for the compatible version to upgrade.

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JeroenTielen
5 months ago

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