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How to migrate VMs from one AHV cluster to another AHV cluster?

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New KB Articles Published on Week Ending February 14, 2026

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Fatal error during installing Nutanix CE 6.8.1

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upgrade AHV on host using community edition

Hi Guy’s I'm trying to update our Dev environment which runs on community edition, and AOS, NCC etc all working via LCM, for the AHV though it will just keep failing every single time.It just goes round in a loop watching from the ilo, it first does

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Backplane segmentation, pros and cons

HiI’m reviewing the network design for a Nutanix AHV cluster and I would like to clarify best practices regarding CVM backplane traffic.Specifically: Is it considered a best practice to separate the CVM backplane (CVM-to-CVM traffic, Stargate/metadat

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Licence warning during (planned) failover

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Daniel MartinezTrailblazer

AHV Virtualization

How to migrate VMs from one AHV cluster to another AHV cluster?

HiImagine you have two AHV clusters that are Active-Active (each site has live VMs on it). They are both connected and they are doing Metro-Sync between them.Now you want to move some VMs from one site to the second site. As far as I know I could per

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How to execute a command on Prism Central VM in Blueprint

In my blueprint, I need to execute a command on Prism Central VM. The command will be a script on Prism Central VM. My blueprint uses the existing Prism Central VM as the substrate. I tried different ways to execute the command but none of them worke

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Problems installing CE on Workstation 25.0.0.24995812

Trying to deploy the latest CE image (phoenix.x86_64-fnd_5.6.1_patch-aos_6.8.1_ga) on a VMware Workstation 25 machine, the VM is being deployed with the recommended hardware (8 cores, 32Gb, 3 drives (64, 200 and 500). The machine I’m deploying on is

YourAdminVoyager

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Fatal error during installing Nutanix CE 6.8.1

Hello, I'm trying to install Nutanix CE on my workstation. I keep getting “error 1155 could not create tmpvol.bin” and “Failed to create tmpvol”. I've already tried it on two different PCs and with different HDDs and SSDs. I tried it with UEFI and wi

Mark SimpsonAdventurer

AHV Virtualization

upgrade AHV on host using community edition

Hi Guy’s I'm trying to update our Dev environment which runs on community edition, and AOS, NCC etc all working via LCM, for the AHV though it will just keep failing every single time.It just goes round in a loop watching from the ilo, it first does

Daniel MartinezTrailblazer

AHV Virtualization

Backplane segmentation, pros and cons

HiI’m reviewing the network design for a Nutanix AHV cluster and I would like to clarify best practices regarding CVM backplane traffic.Specifically: Is it considered a best practice to separate the CVM backplane (CVM-to-CVM traffic, Stargate/metadat

djSandgirlAdventurer

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

Licence warning during (planned) failover

Hi, We have two cluster, Prod and DR. We have protection policies all set up, as well as recovery plans. However, when performing a planned failover (for testing) , the execution of the recovery fails. But it also succeeds… with warnings. The w

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GUI: PC/VM - VM not power on (PC version 7.5.0.1

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Microsoft certificates for Secure Boot expire in June 2026

HI!Microsoft certificates for Secure Boot expire in June 2026Will AHV, CVM, and VM legacy boot continue to function properly after the certificate expires?Secure Boot expiration will only affect guest VMs using UEFI?

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