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CVM not Created after the AHV installed on Dell XC 770, 760 core nodes

  • September 20, 2026
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As per the infrastructure deployment SDK:

  • Typically, Dell ships their hardware pre-configured to automatically install AHV after you first turn the node on. The downside is that, when you turn the node on for the first time, it runs a series of scripts to install the hypervisor and create the CVM. Customers often turn the machines off before the preparations are finished because they don’t know to leave the machines on. It’s usually less complex to use a standalone Foundation VM on bare-metal nodes.

after power on the node and wait about an hour, the AHV is installed and the CVM not created, what can cause this issue and what is the expected time for the node to install the AHV and create the CVM?

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  • Vanguard
  • September 20, 2026

Hi,
have you seen below article:
[Dell-XC] Deployments with BIOS 2.5.4 or 2.6.3 may have missing CVM
I am not sure if it is related to your case (and it is kind of old to be honest).
if you are not sure, I would engage either dell support or nutanix support, they will help you out.
I believe you should be able to use foundation to do the foundation manually.


JeroenTielen
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  • Vanguard
  • September 20, 2026

I’ve installed hundreds of xc nodes and always always use foundation. You are way more in control if using good old foundation. AHV and OAS are already getting correct IP’s and lacp (if used) is directly running. 


LMohammed
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  • Outrider
  • September 20, 2026

Hi ​@Omara 
I recommend using a Foundation VM instead It's much more reliable gives you full control over all IPs and AOS/hypervisor versions and automatically form the bare-metal nodes into a functional cluster in one go.