AHV Virtualization

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Guys has anyone used any tools for Disaster recovery that will handle  AHV ,and Hybrid HCI and 3 tier Esxi.  

Hello, This question came to mind when i was exporting  a VM . Where the OVA file is actually stored?because i didn’t get to choose the storage container where the OVA file will exported to? 

Hi,I decided to write my own Terraform provider/resource for managing a StoragePolicy as the Nutanix provider does not include this capability yet. When writing the delete/destroy function, I followed the Golang example in the API page: https://developers.nutanix.com/api-reference?namespace=datapolicies&version=v4.2#tag/StoragePolicies/operation/deleteStoragePolicyById However, I found it failed with 500 using the example. After debugging I found that the client expects a map with string and pointers to string for its values, not actual strings (https:

Hi. New to Nutanix. We have a 3-node test cluster to evaluate. We are at RF-2 (1N/1D). I am hoping someone can clarify some things for me. I know I can lose 1-node or 1-drive and I will still have data availability. My question is this:If I lose 1-node will data-resilency be rebuilt in that I could actually lose a drive in 1 of the two remaining healthy nodes and still have data available? My thought process is Curator will simply rebuild the data to another healthy drive on the same node?I am trying this now where I cleanly shut a node down, and after 44 minutes Element still shows data-resilency as critical. I would assume since there is tons of free space the resilience would move to “OK” and I could tolerate a drive failure. I must really be misunderstanding something, I am certain I have read that would be work. I just cannot lose a drive with the node down during the rebuild process. Thank you for clarification!

Greetings,In our lab, we have an old Nutanix cluster of 4 NX-8155-G6 machines. I am looking at installing Open Source AHV and AOS however CE may be our solution as well. It looks like the only way to install AHV on the appliances is using Foundation. So two tracks:AHV on the old cluster and install with Foundation Install CE on the old clusterDoes anybody have experience installing CE on older Nutanix Hardware?

Hello Nutanix Community,I’m reaching out for help after spending a significant amount of time troubleshooting an issue where a Nutanix cluster cannot complete initialization. I would truly appreciate any insight from the community, as I believe I have exhausted all standard troubleshooting paths.This cluster was previously created successfully and had been running in production without issues.However, due to security-related changes in our IT infrastructure, we were required to re-address the entire environment, including: CVM IPs Hypervisor IPs IPMI IPs Because of this requirement, I intentionally chose the cleanest and officially recommended approach, which was: Reclaim licenses Stop the cluster Destroy the cluster Rebuild the cluster from scratch using Nutan

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? 

Hi All, Regarding restoring Linux IP, it becomes different from the original,I think it's because after the restore, the Mac differently than before,so the settings are different too. Is there a way to make the IP address the same as before after the restore?

Hi All, I would like to ask: If cluster is not joined to Prism Central, will it become lockout to login to the Prism Portal after the license expired. AHV, AOS: 6.10.1.12

Earlier, we tried deploying Prism Central on our newly rebuilt cluster. This isn’t a new Nutanix model—it’s an older one. I wanted to get your insight regarding an error we encountered during the deployment of the instance. We uploaded the tar and metadata, but the deployment consistently stalls at 91%. Previously, deploying through Prism Central was straightforward, so I’m not sure why we can’t access the GUI now.The VM appears to deploy successfully, and I can SSH into it. All services are running fine, NTP is working, but our newly rebuilt DNS might be a major factor in this issue—I’m not entirely sure if this is causing the problem. I forgot to take a screenshot, but the failure showed an “MT timeouts during deployment” or something similar.

Hi All, Good day to you.Recently, I’ve encountered an issue of unable to image the nodes with Foundation for Windows. Only one of the nodes was completed and the rest 2 nodes failed with fatal: waiting for installer to boot up. Can someone suggest me how to solve this issue? AOS: 6.10.1.7AHV: el8.nutanix.20230302.103032 P.S all node have the same hardware specification but the successful node have different BIOS version. Thanks,

Hi,This topic has already been discussed several times but no solutions applied (reconnecting, importing the module, prefixing the cmdlets ...).I’ve setup an isolated environment with PowerShell 7.5.4 and the Nutanix Powershell Module 2.1.1.I can connect to Prism Central but any Get-* command will end up with the error :“Object reference not set to an instance of an object”I cannot find a way to get the cmdlets to work.Any idea ?Best regards

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Hello All, A problem I've come across recently is that 2 nodes in a cluster do not show a bios version in the inventory nor do they recognize that there is an available update for their bios. While another node that is the same hardware does. I’ve follow KB 10833 a bit but i was hesitant to do a reset to default the ipmi just yet. Has anyone faced something similar?     

I want to Install Nutanix on Dell power edge R740xd but i faced lots of error, there log screens show these errors When i Used nutanix foundation for windows the error i faced IPMItools is missing, i tried foundation on virtualbox but still ipmi can,t mount iso file What should I do to run th

Hi guys, i have configured Active Directory As Authentication Method Using LDAPS,When i am testing User accounts from PE , results are success but i cannot log in to PE using AD credentials, “ Server Not Reachable “ , Please Advise if anyone knows whats wrong or how can i fix it, Thanks <33

We have accessed prism element dashboard, but when we click on ‘Register or create new prism central’. We are getting issue to deploy the microservices.   # ncli cluster info    Cluster Id                : 0006451c-8b67-1207-1f32-005056bae2ac::2247859509063770796    Cluster Uuid              : 0006451c-8b67-1207-1f32-005056bae2ac    Cluster Name              : CENUC    Cluster Version           : 6.8.1    Cluster Full Version      : el8.5-release-fraser-6.8.1-stable-a8aad732dfbfaa2b3bcea0b0c27fbd51d8480f4e    External IP address       : 172.29.30.3    Node Count                : 1    Block Count               : 1    Shadow Clones Status      : Enabled    Has Self Encrypting Disk  : no    Cluster Masquerading I... :    Cluster Masqueradin

HiI was trying to deploy a single node AHV cluster on a HPE host. As previous task I’ve applied the latest Service Pack for Proliant and I’ve updated the ILO6 to the latest version 1.72 and configure the static network on ILO. Then I uploaded the AOS 7.3.1 and AHV 10.3.1.11 (latest releases) to the Foundation (windows app) and I’ve launched the deployment wizzard.The foundation process started but it crashed at 41% with the following errors: 2025-11-27 13:19:11,970Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(139.128.156.70) @ff10>) @f7c0> from PENDING to RUNNING2025-11-27 13:19:11,974Z imaging_step.py:159 INFO Running <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(139.128.156.70) @ff10>) @f7c0>2025-11-27 13:19:11,978Z cache_manager.py:133 DEBUG Cache MISS: key(common_validations_()_{'global_config': <foundation.config_manager.GlobalConfig object

Hello all, I've come across an issue when attempting to create a VM via Prism central i get a fetch error below. Nonetheless i haven't found much on the issue and am turning to see if anyone has any insight. 

Hi all,I have a nested environment with a three-node cluster and also a one-node cluster with AOS 7.3.0.7 and AHV 10.0.1.1. When I tried to update AHV to any available version, the upgrade failed. Does anyone have advice to find a solution or experience with this issue?Thanks

Hi Community,Is there any best practice or guideline I can follow for naming VMs in Nutanix? For example, are there any restrictions on which characters can be used?

Hi. I am new to Nutanix. Our first cluster was pre-configured. We use two internal NTP appliances at the time, and we just purchsed a third. I was logging in to configure it and noticed some oddities.It appears first that I had to set add the new NTP server both to prism central and element. After I added it to Element this command on a CVM was accurate “ncli cluster get-ntp-servers” However the AHV hosts do not appear to get this new server from either prism central or element.  “sudo chronyc -n sources -v” confirmed the original 2 ntp servers were the only ones configured. I added the third and restarted chronyd and it showed up now and is syncing however moving on to the 2nd and 3rd AHV host, the chrony conf is much different. It has the ntp server as the first ntp host? Was this a mistake on part of the installer? I would assyme it should have the exact chroyd.thank you for any clarificaiton.

Hi Everyone, Just throwing this out there and was wondering how others have experienced this.We use VEEAM as our backup solution and were having some issues trying to move from ESXI to AHV. Every time we started a move using Nutanix Move we’d have an error about CBT not being enabled. Our resolution? Disabling CBT (yes disabling not enabling) using the following PowerCLI script!After we ran the script the move completes succesfully! (Make sure to run it before creating your migration plan)No clue if anyone has the same issues as us but if you do this might be a solution!Import-Module VCF.PowerCLIConnect-VIServer -Server YOUR.VCSA.SERVER$vm="YOUR.VM.NAME"$vmtest = Get-vm $vm| get-view$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec$vmConfigSpec.changeTrackingEnabled = $false$vmtest.reconfigVM($vmConfigSpec) Regards,West

Hi Folks,am updating my script for creating a snapshot and store in file device am currently using V3 prism central APIs and want to migrate to use V4 APIS. someone help me with the sample response of APIS in V3 and V4 for List VMS.V4: https://{pc-ip}:9440/api/vmm/v4.1/ahv/config/vmsV2 prism element:  $CLUSTER/PrismGateway/services/rest/v2.0/vms → am using this currently. any dummy VM response is fine just want to estimate the changes and complexity.