Nutanix Community Podcast: The AI-Ready Platform: Nutanix Simplifies Enterprise AI
Webscale Virtualization for the Enterprise
Recently active
We automate the creation of new VMs in our AHV cluster using RestAPI calls and JSON provided VM specification (generated by script etc). Nowhere in our provided JSON do we specify the storage container that vdisks should be created in, but all new VMs have their storage allocated inside ‘SelfServiceContainer’. Wondering if SelfServiceContainer is somehow configured as a default inside AOS - as I would like to change this to a different container if such a config exists? Now I know that I can specify the storage container inside the JSON I provide for each VM creation (and this might be the only way I achieve this), but I am trying to understand if there is someway of configuring a default storage container inside AOS?Thanks in advance, Paul
PE-PC Connection FailureHello, I have an alert on Nutanix PE-PC Connection Failure Description: The remote {remote_vm_type} {cluster_ip} is unreachable. I would like some support to correct this alert. Thanks in advance.
I have two clusters managed by a vCenter Server Appliance (v7.0). One of those clusters is a Nutanix cluster. All hosts in all clusters are running ESXi 6.5. There is no storage shared between the clusters. What is the best and easiest way to migrate the vCenter Appliance to the Nutanix cluster. I’m already configured to move other VMs using Enhanced Shared-Nothing vMotion and that is working fine. Can I use the same method to live migrate the vCenter Appliance to the Nutanix cluster? If possible to live migrate, should I set DRS to manual and disable HA on all clusters before live migrating the vCenter Appliance?
i wants to Migrate VMs from AHV cluster to AHV Cluster, my Source AHV Cluster running on AOS 5.20.0.1 LTS and destination cluster running on 5.20.3.5 LTS, so can configure Data protection and migrate VMs from source ahv cluster to destination ahv cluster with mismatch AOS version.?
Currently, the Nutanix cluster consists of three nodes.The Prime Element has 90% Cluster Memory usage.Data Resilience Status is indicated by "OK". I'm trying to add more memory to the node in this environment.If you change a node to maintenance mode for memory DIMM expansion, the VMs on that node will be migrated to another node. The average usage rate of re-memory is over 90%, will the migration be successful?The Fault Tolerable of Data Resilience is all "1"... I don't know for sure. I wonder if live migration is possible in this environment, and if not, do I need more nodes or downtime?
CVM running but no route to host, installed in vmware workstation, advanced ip scanner indicated cvm is up but not running
Hello,Is it possible to install OTP modules or agents on CVM/AHV? Is it possible to get OTP certification when logging in to CVM/AHV ssh? After installing the OTP agent on the Guest VM, is OTP authentication possible when login to the VM ssh?Thank you.
I hate to duplicate questions, but the original was closed and I have yet to see an answer. Is it possible to schedule automated reboots/shutdowns with an AHV? Similar to what you can do in VMware vSphere with Scheduled Tasks: How to schedule a VM power state with AHV
I have started to code this but thought maybe someone might have already completed this. My issue is I have a windows server in AHV with 10 disk drives. When I get a call from my windows team to expand a drive they will give me the drive letter. However I cannot use that to map back to Nutanix AHV. So outside of coding a tool that will map these 2 systems is there a way to correlate what drive is what? I do not want to have to log into a VM every time I get this request if possible.
How to power on the CVM from AHV. It is showing power off prism and power on option is greyed out.
We migrated many guests from vmware esx to Nutanix sans cd-rom. They are all in production now. But we find that many of them need NGT for better backups. The bus type is SCSI. To add NGT you need CD-ROM but we have none. The NGT install looks to be unique per guest with special certificates injected into the CD-ROM. We dont want the extra CD-ROM hardware always lingering so we remove it after NGT install.Consider this a plea for help, a gripe and a feature request.To add NGT, we must shutdown the guest. Add CD-ROM (because it wont let us hot-add). Boot, install NGT. Shutdown, remove CD-ROM and boot.Why no hot-add capability?Can someone offer a simpler workflow that only involves one reboot?Why not make the ISO available to the guest in additional ways like a SMB share or Web\SSL download link.Why not add a feature to the NGT install that allows any guest to negotiate the needed certificates with the cluster on the fly?If any of these problems have a solution, please update the kb’s an
It’s unclear to me whether or not it is supported to mount datastores, whether NFS or iSCSI, from external sources onto VMware hosts running on Nutanix for VMDK storage for VMs. I apologize if this has been answered before or clearly stated in docs somewhere.
Currently I have 2 Cluster of 2 CPU with 2 core per CPU. so haw I calculate vCPU:pCPU Ratio?
Can someone chime in on how Licensing woudl work when using AHV? For example, we currently have Windows 2012R2 Datacentre edition on each host and we have the ability to have unlimited licensed Windows Servers virtualised. I know that AHV doesn't require a license but does that mean that a license for each Widnows Virtual Server will need to be purchased hence invalidating our Datacentre license???
Hello,We are buying a Nutanix Cluster of 3 nodes nx-3170-g8, but the management, also intending to buy vSphere 7 licenses thinking to replace the Hypervisor in the Nutanix boxes.I would like to know, if this can be done? and if yes, what documents or procedures must be followed?Thank you in advance,
Hi TogetherIs there a way automatically provisioning Linux Server on Nutanix Platform with RedHat Satellite? It doen’t seem there is a nutanix provider for satellite.And this link covers only Redhat subscription management: Simplified Subscription Management for AHV with Red Hat Satellite ServerSomeone tried “Libvirt” Provider in satellite with Nutanix?Kind RegardSteve
Hello everyone,Someone before me in my current job created a couple of VMs in AHV with IDE bus type for their disks instead of SCSI. Just a quick glance of the documentation I found this:AHV does not leverage a traditional storage stack like ESXi or Hyper-V. All disk(s) are passed to the VM(s) as raw SCSI block devices. So my question is, why would someone decide to create IDE disks? Am I missing something? I know it’s common practice for CD-ROM drives, but not storage disks. No wonder I noticed a really bad performance on those servers recently.
Is it possible to live migrate a VM from one AHV cluster to another AHV cluster ? or live migration is only within one AHV cluster ??
Hi,I have a confusion between the role played by foundation and phoenix, during a LCM firmware upgrade, moreover I am not finding a deep dive article explaining this end to end:1. Once the phoenix iso is created and mounted to the host along with the upgrade bundle, Can phoenix run independently and complete the upgrades or needs help from foundation for performing some tasks like host reboot ?2. During LCM upgrade, since the node undergoing upgrades, will have all VMs powered off including the CVM, will it take help from a remote CVM foundation to orchestrate the upgrades on this host ?3. Putting host in maintenance mode is taken care by LCM or foundation service?4. Can you please give a high level working of the phoenix mechanism, since the hypervisor installer itself is a separate iso, which needs to be mounted, just wondering how phoenix handles multiple iso, does it mount simultaneously with the upgrade iso?
