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Our popular Nutanix Certified Associate (NCA) certification is being updated to version 7.5, and we invite you to be part of the process. By joining the beta program, you can help refine the NCA 7.5 exam before its official release. Why Participate?A

Himanshusince1989Trailblazer

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Query Regarding USB HDD Mapping to Nutanix VM

Hello Team,I have recently deployed a Nutanix solution, and everything is working as expected. I have also deployed a virtual machine with the Veeam Backup solution, which is running successfully.I have an external USB HDD that I would like to map or

seantorresmNutanix Employee

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Multi Cloud Experts Meetup Sesión 3

Hola! Ya tenemos abierta la inscripción para la 3ª sesión del foro MC Experts de Nutanix.En esta ocasión nos contarán Russel y Antonio cómo desplegar Prism Central y los primeros pasos para la gestión unificada. Fecha: 16 de junio 2026 Horario: de

Hakkeem SaitExplorer

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I have completed NCP-MCI 6.10 Certification Badge Not Received

Hi Nutanix Support Team,I have completed and passed the Nutanix Certified Professional - MultiCloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) 6.10 exam on May 21, 2026.However, I have not yet received my certification badge or certificate.Could you please check and h

alyshoAdventurer

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

nutanix DR cluster upgrade

i have two cluster main cluster and DR cluster , what is the best practice to upgrade two cluster , can i start with main or DR first , what about replication it is effected with upgade?

anhpcAdventurer

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

NDK 2.1 PFO documentation: What image URL should be used for "migrate-job.yaml"?

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Data-Services-for-Kubernetes-v2_1:top-configuring-pfo-t.html#:~:text=Configure%20the%20migrate%2Djob%20YAML%20with%20the%20names%20of%20the%20secrets%20created%20in%20the%20previous%2

GilesBAdventurer

Hi,I’ve got a question about where a VM on AHV get’s it’s time at boot-up from.Background: I was reviewing the event logs on a couple of windows servers, and looking at the bootup process. Event times, start at UTC and then a bit through the boot-u

Antonio MaesoAdventurer

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Nutanix Assessment

Hola a todos,Actualmente estoy evaluando un entorno Nutanix con el objetivo de calcular los costes y la viabilidad de migrar ciertas cargas de trabajo a Microsoft Azure, considerando tanto Azure Migrate como Nutanix Move.Al trabajar con entornos VMwa

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Enable SNMPv3 Only on AOS 7.5

We are trying to configure the CVM hardening recommendation to enable SNMPv3 only. The Nutanix Bible lists the command as:ncli cluster edit-cvm-security-params enable-snmpv3-only=[true|false] #Default:falseHowever, the AOS 7.5 version of the Securit

jeremy_waldropAdventurer

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X-Ray Reliency Test with Storage Only Nodes

X-Ray 6.2, trying to run the resiliency test on a 5 node cluster where 3 nodes are storage only. Is there way to configure the test to only move VMs between the 2 hyperconverged nodes?

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AHV Virtualization

Query Regarding USB HDD Mapping to Nutanix VM

Hello Team,I have recently deployed a Nutanix solution, and everything is working as expected. I have also deployed a virtual machine with the Veeam Backup solution, which is running successfully.I have an external USB HDD that I would like to map or

Hakkeem SaitExplorer

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I have completed NCP-MCI 6.10 Certification Badge Not Received

Hi Nutanix Support Team,I have completed and passed the Nutanix Certified Professional - MultiCloud Infrastructure (NCP-MCI) 6.10 exam on May 21, 2026.However, I have not yet received my certification badge or certificate.Could you please check and h

alyshoAdventurer

Nutanix Disaster Recovery

nutanix DR cluster upgrade

i have two cluster main cluster and DR cluster , what is the best practice to upgrade two cluster , can i start with main or DR first , what about replication it is effected with upgade?

anhpcAdventurer

Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

NDK 2.1 PFO documentation: What image URL should be used for "migrate-job.yaml"?

https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Data-Services-for-Kubernetes-v2_1:top-configuring-pfo-t.html#:~:text=Configure%20the%20migrate%2Djob%20YAML%20with%20the%20names%20of%20the%20secrets%20created%20in%20the%20previous%2

GilesBAdventurer

Hi,I’ve got a question about where a VM on AHV get’s it’s time at boot-up from.Background: I was reviewing the event logs on a couple of windows servers, and looking at the bootup process. Event times, start at UTC and then a bit through the boot-u

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Hola a todos,Actualmente estoy evaluando un entorno Nutanix con el objetivo de calcular los costes y la viabilidad de migrar ciertas cargas de trabajo a Microsoft Azure, considerando tanto Azure Migrate como Nutanix Move.Al trabajar con entornos VMwa

drharroldWayfarer

Installation & Configuration

Enable SNMPv3 Only on AOS 7.5

We are trying to configure the CVM hardening recommendation to enable SNMPv3 only. The Nutanix Bible lists the command as:ncli cluster edit-cvm-security-params enable-snmpv3-only=[true|false] #Default:falseHowever, the AOS 7.5 version of the Securit

jeremy_waldropAdventurer

X-Ray Performance & Reliability Tests

X-Ray Reliency Test with Storage Only Nodes

X-Ray 6.2, trying to run the resiliency test on a 5 node cluster where 3 nodes are storage only. Is there way to configure the test to only move VMs between the 2 hyperconverged nodes?

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Can I scale in Prism central deployment

Hi Team, We have Nutanix Prism central deployed with scale out option by having 3 PC instances in it. We would like to make it one instance instead of 3. Could you help with Nutanix articles that gives the steps to do do.

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Does live migration traffic use the VM’s network when Backplane LAN is not configured?

Hi community,I'm in the middle of deploying a 3-node Nutanix AHV cluster and have a question about live migration traffic behavior with and without the Backplane LAN configured.My current setup:- 3 Nutanix AHV nodes- 10G SFP+ uplinks for VM traffic (

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