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AdamNTXVoyager

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Updating tools results in hanging at uefi upon reboot. Has to be power cycled to then boot to Windows Server

SCSI disk 100gb, 16gb mem, Server 2016 standard desktop experience, dual xeon icelake Likely other configurations, as this has happened with multiple VMs, still collecting data, but wanted to get something started in case others have experience with this. My first thought is obviously some uefi configuration with boot order or something, but doesn’t really make sense, since it only *seems to happen* right after tool updates. *updated as it’s not like we reboot often, maybe it will happen without updating as well.

HaroonAdventurer

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How to install Nutanix CE 2.1 in Dell server T350

Dear Team, I have Dell server T350 with 3 HDD of 2TB and 32GB of memory and 4 Core server. I want to deploy Nutanix AHV(Hypervisor) to that server and provision some VMs for LAB. I have downloaded Nutanix CE 2.1 ISO and loaded to USB, cant move ahead of installation after disk selection. Kindly advise on this!!

GuillemVoyager

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Nutanix CE Installation Issue - InstallerVM Timeout

Hello Nutanix Community, I'm trying to install Nutanix Community Edition (CE), but I'm encountering an InstallerVM timeout issue. The installation keeps retrying, and the hypervisor setup does not complete successfully. My hardware setup: 1 HDD (480GB) → Intended for data storage. 1 SSD (2.8TB) → Assigned to CVM storage. 1 USB Drive (32GB) → Used for the hypervisor installation. Issue Description: The installation starts but gets stuck with repeated messages: INFO Hypervisor installation in progress INFO InstallerVM timeout occurred, current retry 0 I have already disabled RAID and set the SATA mode to AHCI in the BIOS. The disks are correctly recognized when using lsblk and fdisk -l. I tried wiping the disks (wipefs -a and dd if=/dev/zero), but the issue persists. Troubleshooting Attempts: Checked system RAM → I have more than 32GB available. USB Boot Media → I recreated the bootable USB with a fresh Nutanix CE ISO.

ryoujiVoyager

asked in Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

I checked the log rotation interval for CVM and Prism Central in the manual, but I couldn't find any information. With the default settings, how often are logs rotated, and how many generations of data are retained?

blanketvmAdventurer

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Duplicated CVM machine?

Hello, After 3 node cluster deployment, I can see 4 CVMs. Two of them looks like the same VM but duplicated. How to fix it and remove one of them? I cannot update vs0 on the node where two CVMs are placed.AHV/CVM reboot did not help. And I cannot use acli on that node. nutanix@NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM:10.170.0.11:~$ ncli vm list Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::7fa39b58-506c-40f9-b5b8-54146d84855e Uuid : b452d890-a399-49b3-b415-e975c489d577 Name : NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM VM IP Addresses : 10.170.0.11, 192.168.5.2, 192.168.5.254 Hypervisor Host Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::5 Hypervisor Host Uuid : f20c4224-3d4f-4472-bb79-2e8aa0968bc5 Hypervisor Host Name : NTNX-b7617012-A Memory : 20 GiB (21,474,836,480 bytes) Virtual CPUs : 2 VDisk Count : 0 Protection Domain : Consistency Group : Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::9aef76d3-3584-49a1-af9c-4b50c900dd9d Uuid : 1a269e5c-0aee-4af3-af21-e036ccf0e80f Name : NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM VM IP Addresses : 10.170.0.11, 192.168.5.2

sudongxingWayfarer

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Can you help authorize CE's permission？

Your .NEXT account does not have the required Community Edition. role. Please request the role from your Nutanix contact or on the .NEXT forum. xing.sudong@kiongroup.com Our company will deploy Nutanix in the coming months. I plan to familiarize myself first. thank you!

fasterfourierVoyager

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Storage tiering for QLC SSDs

I am considering building a cluster that will use a mix of TLC and QLC NVMe SSDs. I assume that Nutanix will put all of these drives into the SSD-PCIe storage tier and every disk will be a member of the same tier. Since QLC SSDs have lower performance and lower write endurance than their TLC, MLC, and SLC counterparts, it would be advantageous to use storage tiering to encourage cold data to reside on the QLC media and hotter data to reside on the more performant drives. Is there a supported method for this in non-community edition clusters? It would be relatively straightforward to manually change the tier-name for the QLC drives to SSD-SATA, but is that a supported practice?

alucianiChevalier

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Community Chronicles: A Weekly Roundup from the Nutanix Community (March 11)Blog

Welcome to your weekly dose of all things Nutanix Community! 🚀 Think of this as your tech highlight reel—we dig through the latest discussions, insights, and hot topics so you don’t have to. Whether you’re here for powerful how-tos, deep dives into hybrid multicloud, or just the best community banter, we’ve got something for you. So, grab a coffee (or Tea—no judgment), and let’s explore the top posts and conversations that got everyone talking this week! Prism Element - Update Virtual Switch @trb48 PowerShell Coding Standards – Nutanix Self-Service (calm) @Avico Prism Central Alerts - Part III Send to Microsoft Teams @trb48 Live! From a Private Cloud Near You! @trb48 Maximize Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) with Cost Governance @rpatel Backing up your Nutanix cluster with HYCU – Creating backup jobs @Exe Migrations, Migrations, Migrations! @trb48 Nutanix is not guilty just a person of interest - Windows License @Andrea Ribeiro Prism Central Capacity Planning @trb48 Exploring Druv

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Nutanix Community Podcast: Answering Top Questions from CIOs about Hybrid MulticloudBlog

In Episode 2 of Nutanix CXO Pulse, Paul Harb, VP of Performance and Solutions Engineering at Nutanix, addresses some of the most critical challenges CIOs face when navigating the hybrid multicloud landscape. Paul shares expert advice on selecting the right cloud provider, designing a future-proof cloud strategy and balancing cloud benefits with cost optimization. He also discusses best practices that can strengthen cloud security and how to avoid common pitfalls during cloud migration. Tune in for a compelling discussion that will help CIOs and other IT leaders optimize their cloud environments and make well-informed decisions about their cloud strategy. Resources Nutanix CXO Focus Making Hybrid Multicloud Simple If you have any questions, feel free to reach out to me on X (formerly known as Twitter) and if you haven't already done so, make sure you are subscribed to the show wherever you consume podcasts. Subscribe to the podcast using iTunes or Spotify

SumedhWayfarer

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Not showing VM IP details in nutanix collector.

Hi everyone, anyone face issue, when they run nutanix collector to gather data of PC or PE, but when we open the excel file. we got required data except VM IP details.can anyone resolve this or have any solution to this. without VM IP details, collector is not worth. Please share thought about it.

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AdamNTXVoyager

asked in Installation & Configuration

Updating tools results in hanging at uefi upon reboot. Has to be power cycled to then boot to Windows Server

SCSI disk 100gb, 16gb mem, Server 2016 standard desktop experience, dual xeon icelake Likely other configurations, as this has happened with multiple VMs, still collecting data, but wanted to get something started in case others have experience with this. My first thought is obviously some uefi configuration with boot order or something, but doesn’t really make sense, since it only *seems to happen* right after tool updates. *updated as it’s not like we reboot often, maybe it will happen without updating as well.

HaroonAdventurer

asked in Installation & Configuration

How to install Nutanix CE 2.1 in Dell server T350

Dear Team, I have Dell server T350 with 3 HDD of 2TB and 32GB of memory and 4 Core server. I want to deploy Nutanix AHV(Hypervisor) to that server and provision some VMs for LAB. I have downloaded Nutanix CE 2.1 ISO and loaded to USB, cant move ahead of installation after disk selection. Kindly advise on this!!

blanketvmAdventurer

asked in Installation & Configuration

Duplicated CVM machine?

Hello, After 3 node cluster deployment, I can see 4 CVMs. Two of them looks like the same VM but duplicated. How to fix it and remove one of them? I cannot update vs0 on the node where two CVMs are placed.AHV/CVM reboot did not help. And I cannot use acli on that node. nutanix@NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM:10.170.0.11:~$ ncli vm list Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::7fa39b58-506c-40f9-b5b8-54146d84855e Uuid : b452d890-a399-49b3-b415-e975c489d577 Name : NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM VM IP Addresses : 10.170.0.11, 192.168.5.2, 192.168.5.254 Hypervisor Host Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::5 Hypervisor Host Uuid : f20c4224-3d4f-4472-bb79-2e8aa0968bc5 Hypervisor Host Name : NTNX-b7617012-A Memory : 20 GiB (21,474,836,480 bytes) Virtual CPUs : 2 VDisk Count : 0 Protection Domain : Consistency Group : Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::9aef76d3-3584-49a1-af9c-4b50c900dd9d Uuid : 1a269e5c-0aee-4af3-af21-e036ccf0e80f Name : NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM VM IP Addresses : 10.170.0.11, 192.168.5.2

sudongxingWayfarer

asked in Nutanix User Group

Can you help authorize CE's permission？

Your .NEXT account does not have the required Community Edition. role. Please request the role from your Nutanix contact or on the .NEXT forum. xing.sudong@kiongroup.com Our company will deploy Nutanix in the coming months. I plan to familiarize myself first. thank you!

fasterfourierVoyager

asked in AHV Virtualization

Storage tiering for QLC SSDs

I am considering building a cluster that will use a mix of TLC and QLC NVMe SSDs. I assume that Nutanix will put all of these drives into the SSD-PCIe storage tier and every disk will be a member of the same tier. Since QLC SSDs have lower performance and lower write endurance than their TLC, MLC, and SLC counterparts, it would be advantageous to use storage tiering to encourage cold data to reside on the QLC media and hotter data to reside on the more performant drives. Is there a supported method for this in non-community edition clusters? It would be relatively straightforward to manually change the tier-name for the QLC drives to SSD-SATA, but is that a supported practice?

SumedhWayfarer

asked in AHV Virtualization

Not showing VM IP details in nutanix collector.

Hi everyone, anyone face issue, when they run nutanix collector to gather data of PC or PE, but when we open the excel file. we got required data except VM IP details.can anyone resolve this or have any solution to this. without VM IP details, collector is not worth. Please share thought about it.

MaarkAdventurer

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Filed to start systems management device drivers.

I have been trying to install Nutanix phoenix. But everytime i try to install it i run into the same error instsvcdrv.service not being able to start. I have tryed to find the file on the system and start it without any luck. I downloade ce from here = Download Community Edition | Nutanix Community The full line says = Failed to start systems Management Device Drivers.See ‘systemctl status instsvcdrv.service’ for more details. The only other ones i found on here with the same problem was Nutanix CE fails to install | Nutanix Community

UweFaberVoyager

asked in Installation & Configuration

How to find vlanid for cvm with VMware HV

Hi, i have to extend a Cluster with ESXi7 HV, and in the foundation Software i have to fill in the vlanid for the cvm. I guess this is the default vlan, so with AHV i knew the commands to find out the vlanid, but with ESXI i have no experience. So could someone tell the the comands to find out the vlanid ? Regards Uwe

wileyrfWayfarer

asked in Installation & Configuration

fresh install -> cvm cluster created/started, all services

I have a fresh install of CE 2.1. Single node - Intel S2600GZ (Dual E5-2650). LSI 2380 HBA. All SSD RAID10 disks. 4x1G Intel NICs. ~400G for CVM/Data. I create the single node cluster ...waited 2 hours and cluster services are still down. Thoughts? cluster status output shows: nutanix@NTNX-c3fc6bae-A-CVM:172.16.0.20:~/data/logs$ cs 2025-03-10 14:44:49,368Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:136 Using multithreaded Zookeeper client library: 1 2025-03-10 14:44:49,370Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:248 Parsed cluster id: 5826532148493501106, cluster incarnation id: 1741611593263670 2025-03-10 14:44:49,371Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:270 cluster is attempting to connect to Zookeeper, host port list zk1:9876 2025-03-10 14:44:49,388Z INFO Dummy-1 zookeeper_session.py:840 ZK session establishment complete, sessionId=0x1958025e2ec0011, negotiated timeout=20 secs 2025-03-10 14:44:49,391Z INFO MainThread cluster:3302 Executing action status on SVMs 172.16.0.20 2025-03-10 14:44

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Is it possible to deploy a Witness VM for Metro Availability at the disaster recovery (DR) site?

If I have two AHV clusters distributed across a primary site and a disaster recovery (DR) site, and I configure Metro Availability between them, is it possible to deploy the Witness VM at the DR site?

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