AHV Virtualization

Hello form the User Experience Research team at Nutanix! In our last Friday of September, I would like to invite you all to participate in a very brief survey to collect feedback about VM Start Ordering for High Availability and Disaster Recovery events. The survey shouldn’t take longer than 5 minutes at most but it will go a long way in helping our teams design and develop to your needs!You can access the survey here: https://nutanixpoc.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_9npNH7BrNVCxzg2

We’re migrating from Vmware to AHV in parts of our environment.  In Vmware, our helpdesk has permissions to reboot virtual desktops.  Our desktops are all in one folder and their rights are limited to “View”, “Console” and “Change power state”.  How can I do this in Nutanix Element?  It doesn’t look like I can create folders.  And it looks like my options are pretty much administrator or view only.  Am I missing something?

Hello.I detected a problem using the latest kernel 6.1.0.-25-amd64 with all my VMs under Nutanix. I recently upgraded all my Debian servers from version 12.6 to 12.7: in version 12.6 the linux kernel in use was 6.1.0-23-amd64 and in version 12.7 is 6.1.0-25-amd64. The issue is related with the download speed using this kernel in all my upgraded VM’s. It’s extremely slow. So after 2 days trying to figure out what was happening (installing debian 12.7 in a new VM same problem....installing in VirtualBox no problem at all), so I decided to rollback to the old kernel, maintaining the Debian version 12.7 (with kernel 6.1.0-23-amd64) and the problem stopped. I’m using the following system, see picture:  Here are some speed tests: Debian version 12.6:wget https://proof.ovh.net/files/100Mb.dat--2024-09-05 01:26:12-- https://proof.ovh.net/files/100Mb.datResolviendo proof.ovh.net (proof.ovh.net)... 141.95.207.211, 2001:41d0:242:d300::Conectando con proof.ovh.net (proof.ovh.net)[141.95.207.211]:4

Hi, Sorry if my english is poor, i’m trying to describe my problem as short as i can.Recently, we’ve bought new G9 NX appliance, and migrate all our production on it, that great.So now, we got 18 G5 NX node.I made 2 clusters of 9 nodes, no problems.My problems starts here :- With one of my collegues we want to try to create a bridge but without plug the ethThe test we want to do was successfull, and we were making somes XRay bench by the same time.-Finally we want to suppress this bridge and it’s now possible, i got a message were “Curie Scenario failed to revoke token.I’ve tried to follow KB7071 but nothing is solve.There is some jpg of my AOS & CVM I’ve even check if i can kill a queued or running task with ergon, but not finding it.Its impossible to put host in maintenance mode or doing a LCM by now.Please help me :)   

Hi there We are running pc.2023.4.0.2 and because we would like to upgrade to AOS 6.8.1, we need to first upgrade the Prism Central to pc.2024.x. However, upgrading from pc.2023.4.0.2 to any pc.2024.x at the moment, it’s not supported. As of today, the latest PC Version is 2024.1.0.2. I do understand the upgrade N to N+2, but when it comes to PC, i don’t know what N+2 means relative to pc.2023.4.0.2.Considering that AOS 6.5 is going EOM in Oct 2024, we are a little afraid that we’ll not be able to upgrade our AOS’es 6.5.x to AOS 6.8 in time, because PC 2024.x is a prerequisite for AOS 6.8. What to expect here, and how to proceed? Best regards,Casian

I'm looking for information about VM creation with REST API or Postman, and so far I can't find anything “good”, I find it strange because Nutanix always have very good information, but in this case I can't find much, neither videos, I know there is no Test Drive. But they should have some videos on this important topic.

I want to setup LACP balance SLB but in the KB it only shows balance TCP? How to Enable, Disable, and Verify LACP on AHV hosts (nutanix.com)

Hi teams, I needed to change bonding mode in AHV from active-backup to active-active for my production cluster .can you help me by giving me the best practice 

From prism Central Element, I am trying to deploy Prism Central. When I go for create new Prism central through Prism Central Element GUI, it did not list out available versions. Instead, it just shows “No compactible versions for Deployment”. Following is what I have. I am using nutanix hardware.Version 6.8.1 - COMMUNITY LicenseNCC Version: 5.0.1LCM Version: 3.0.1.1 Not sure, how I can deploy prism central If I do not have binary. If I uncheck the option “Only show compatible versions”, it lists out following public version.pc.2023.4.0.2pc.2022.6.0.10pc.2022.6.0.11pc.2022.6.0.12 In that case, I had deployed pc.2023.4.0.2 but i never able to get GUI. I suspect the compatibility issue.Any help would be appreciated.

Any update on using copy/paste from our workstation/laptop into a VM Console of windows VM hoted on AHV cluster? How Do I Enable Copy and Paste in AHV? | Nutanix Community this would be a great feature to implement but it does not seem to be any information as to when this would be available and we would be deploying 3 new AHV Clusters so not sure if this is on the pipeline. thank you

Hi all,Today we have Set up a Windows file failover cluster.WE have configured a volume group with one vdisk for quorum and one volume group with two vdisks for data.Windows see the two disks in the second volume group seperately. WE have attached the volume groups directly to the Windows VM.Why is the volume group seen as seperate disks?Should it not be only one? Regards,Thomas  

when i issue this command there different foundation versionshow can i upgrade 10.11.12.35 to the same version of other cvmsallssh 'cat ~/foundation/foundation_version'================== 10.11.12.35 =================foundation-5.5-02013d8b================== 10.11.12.37 =================foundation-5.6.1-a98b2e5f================== 10.11.12.36 =================foundation-5.6.1-a98b2e5fnutanix@NTNX-16SM6C420270-B-CVM:10.11.12.36:~$ 

Nutanix environment supports FC sharing for the backup process

Hi all,I just setup a new AHV environment and was wondering if it still needed to change the passwords for the users:adminnutanix...on AHV!https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide-v6_8:app-ahv-access-initial-config-t.htmlThe reason for asking is, that they do not seems to be the default passwords (tried to login with them  - did not work: nutanix/4u) - and also the standard alarm that informs that you need to change these disappeared just after I changed the root password!Has something changed in ver. 6.7 / 6.8 ? 

Hi,         I am doing 4 node AHV cluster decomission. I did all the steps and finally gave cluster destroy and ensure it was destroyed completely. I want to do factory reset of all the nodes where the hypervisor /cvm configurations like hostname, IP etc will we wiped out. Let me know the procedure on this. Thanks.

I need to edit XML <feature> <hyperv mode> <cpu mode> by command “virsh edit vm_name”on the host.but when powered off VMs there not show UUID on any host. acli vm.update cannot edit XML file like “virsh edit vm_name”  

Hi,Please help me on below quarry,while migrating the vm getting below issue,  if it is ports issue, please help me which ports need to allow from firewall side.

Hello, I am seeking your assistance with enabling replication on my cluster, which consists of 5 servers and 60 VMs. I am undecided between Metro mode and Asynchronous mode on Prism Central. Given that I have two clusters using Metro-type replication, we encounter difficulties when Metro mode is activated, as clients experience significant slowdowns on their VMs. This is why I am considering enabling Asynchronous replication on Prism Central. My question is: if I activate Asynchronous replication on Prism Central while other clusters are using Metro mode, will this have any impact? Thank you for your help. 

How can I find out the address of UUID when it is powered off? I need to edit some custom option by command “virsh edit vm_name” before power on.

I have taken a bare metal server backup which is running windows server 2016. need to to know Nutanix VM support this kind of backup. if not how can i restore bare metal backup.

Currently, my AOS Version is 6.5, Nutanix requires upgrading to AOS 6.5.3, but I want to upgrade to a newer version. How do you know that the upcoming AOS version will not affect the current AHV version?

Hello,We have an old VM that is in our Nutanix cluster. It is running an old version of Windows server, and our Cyber department does not want it connected to the network. There has been a request to retrieve historic data from the server.  Is there a way to boot the server with the network disconnected and use a USB drive connected to the Nutanix host to export the data? If there is no way to do that what other possibilities will work? Can the virtual disk from the old server be mounted on a new network connected VM? Thanks

Hi team,When I try to log into the PRISM web interface, I get the error message "Unable to authenticate. Please contact the Nutanix administrator." This has never happened before. What should I do in this situation?  

HP DL380P Gen 82x Xeon E5 2667128GB RAMboot: 128GB SSDhypervisor: 1TB SSDstorage: 1TB HDD=============================Thanks in advance for any advice! Everything installs fine. I selected the ‘single node cluster’ option in installer and put my local DNS server. I waited the ‘15 minutes after installation’ for the cluster to be automatically created.=============================I do see ports opening on the CVM but not 8000:Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-15 16:58 Atlantic Daylight TimeNmap scan report for 10.110.10.101Host is up (0.0033s latency).Not shown: 960 filtered tcp ports (no-response), 33 closed tcp ports (reset)PORT     STATE SERVICE22/tcp   open  ssh111/tcp  open  rpcbind2099/tcp open  h2250-annex-g2100/tcp open  amiganetfs2103/tcp open  zephyr-clt9876/tcp open  sd9877/tcp open  x510MAC Address: 50:6B:8D:F7:85:3A (Nutanix)=============================$ cluster status2024-08-15 12:06:08,460Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:191 cluster is attempting t

Okay, so I am still seeing weird behavior on my AHV server.At present I am unable to log into the console. Let’s say the username password is root:test. It’s not, but let’s say it is. It tells me it’s wrong, try again. Lather rinse repeat.I go to my PC and ssh into the same box, it works. Here is what it looks like:userpc:~> ssh root@nutanix1 Nutanix AHVroot@nutanix1's password:  Last login: Mon Jul 15 20:14:14 UTC 2024 on tty1Last failed login: Tue Aug 13 18:46:23 UTC 2024 on tty1There were 11031 failed login attempts since the last successful login.Last login: Mon Jul 15 20:14:14 2024I run a command:[root@NTNX-cdb56c24-A ~]# uname -a Linux NTNX-cdb56c24-A 5.10.139-2.el7.nutanix.20220304.342.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 12:00:00 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxI logout.[root@NTNX-cdb56c24-A etc]# exit logoutConnection to nutanix1 closed.I immediately try to log back in…userpc:~> ssh root@nutanix1Nutanix AHVroot@nutanix1's password:  Permission denied, please try again.What in