AHV Virtualization

I have just installed the module Nutanix for Ansible. The demo playbook works fine.https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/08/05/getting-started-with-the-nutanix-ansible-module/But I can’t find in the module documentation how to deploy VM  from a VM template just like we do with https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_module.html ?Thx

Hello I'm currently working on a Windows Server 2022 image these days, and something got weird on the 3 below scenarios1) From PC - deploying a new VM from image by specifiying guest customization with only username and password Sysprep seems to works but logs are quite short 2) From PC - using a unattend.xml in the guest customization settings that only change username/password Same result as you can see below 3) Manually from inside the VM, launching sysprep.exe /generalize /reboot /oobe Logs are very long (file is like 145ko vs 5ko for 1) and 2) and a lot more stuff seems to be done rather than 1) and 2) , as you can see below My questions are :Does the guest customization from PC is really working ? what should be the best way to sysprep a VM from PC ?  Thanks a lot for your help :) 

 I have the same issue described in https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/ansible-missing-aruments-41627This post have 10 replies but I can’t see them.To test,  I have written values of nutanix_host, nutanix_password, nutanix_username are directly in dem playbook. No way. What is the solution ?thanx a lot

Hello comunity, i need info if these cmdlets are updated or there is new cmdlets for booting configuration?i am preparing boot configuration for deploying VM with UEFI and SATA combination but those cmdlets are not working for me. I am using latest cmdlets downloaded directly from the Prism Element.$boot=New-NutanixObject BootConfig$boot.uefi_boot=$true$boot.secure_boot=$false$boot.boot_device_type='DISK'$boot.disk_address=$diskAddressThose line are throwing errors…Thanks and regards

Hello everybody, We have a customer who informs us about a problem on his AOS/AHV platform:We have encountered in our testing phase several Nvidia problems on the Linux stations:-    Name of the VDI does not show up in the license server;    Unrecognized driver causing the GPU not to be used. Nvidia advised to upgrade to version 13.7.But the version supported by nutanix for the client version is 13.3, the one already in place (https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads?product=ahv) The current versions of the client : AOS: 6.5.1.6AHV: 20220304.24Nvidia grid : 470.129.04nvidia software : 13.3 Can we upgrade from nvidia to version 13.7?Is it supported by nutanix? Thanks for your help Bernard

Hello,Is there a way to deploy Linux Server on Nutanix AHV with RedHat Satellite? I can’t add compute resource in Infrastructure/Compute Resources in Satellite GUI I opened a case on RedHat side and they told me :“The RFE (Request for feature enhancement) has been raised with respect to Bugzilla #2010211, however, the Red Hat Satellite Engineering team has confirmed that this RFE will not be implemented.”Does anyone succeeded to deploy VM On Nutanix with Satellite ?I’m not talking about virt-who, this part is working. 

HiAs Microsoft advise / Windows Server 2022 isn’t Legacy BIOS compatible anymore, i have to set up a brand new template using UEFI.However, if i tick “EFI” and Secure Boot from VM configuration or not, I can’t boot on my ISO at all. It still go to EFI Shell or in the UEFI Menu.I also tried to update VirtIO drivers directly into my Windows image (on install.wim and boot.wim on all indexes) but i can’t go so far in the installation part. Does anyone was able to use EFI settings with Windows Server 2022 ? If yes, what was your settings  ? 

I have installed CE 2.0 on top of Esxi Environment.  I have created new guest VM. While powering on I am getting the following Error.libvirtError: the CPU is incompatible with host CPU: Host CPU does not provide required features: monitorany have idea?im running on amd epyc cpu

I added ssd to the Nutanix cluster, but the tier looks hdd. How can I fix it?

We have 2 Nutanix prism tenants and would like to share the VM resources to keep the logs such as the SNMP logs and Syslog together, Our local services suggest having 2 public IPs to connect it with the VPN tunnel.  Is it possible to configure the virtual network for this solution without the Public IP?I’m not sure it is the best practice to connect 2 local tenants with the VPN tunnel so the packet will route through the public network.

if We have 400 virtual machines and we dont know that who use that virtual machines and we want to know IDLE SERVERS, means the servers no one use. 

Hello guys, I am aware of the application discovery and monitoring feature that comes with prism pro to get the metrics for apps running inside vms. But currently it offers support for only vcenter and mssql server. Is there any other way from nutanix or any third party software that can be leveraged to achieve this?  

is any possiblity to install AHV on Virtual Desktop ? l want to install on VMware Workstation, VirtualBox etc.

Greetings all,Testing out an upgrades I have faced some problems upgrading cluster from 5.20 straight to 6.5.2 AOS version using dark site web server. Even though the Upgrade Path shows that such upgrade is supported, and I was able to upgrade all the other components including the AOS itself using Prism LCM. The only problem is that after Performing Inventory and even after the upgrade complete it does not show AHV version changed or the upgrade available and the AHV version stays the same. I have tried to perform Direct Upload too and even though I could see the uploaded AHV version I still was unable to upgrade it. Upgrade to 6.5.1.8 version went successful, however. So  I had to try it with 6.5.2.5 and the result stays the same as with 6.5.2First I tried to upgrade fromAOS 5.20.1.1 AHV 20201105.2096 → AOS 6.5.2 AHV 20220304.342then after reimaging the cluster toAOS 5.20.2.1 AHV 20201105.2244 →  AOS 6.5.2 AHV 20220304.342.Both upgrades showed same results, then after reimaging the c

Hello guys, I managed to create a new VM running Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 with the help of the Fedora Redhat VirtIO drivers. Everything works fine so far. Question now ... has anbody managed to get the current Nutanix Guest Tools to run inside? I downloaded SHA-2 Microsoft Patches KB4474419 and KB4493730 for Windows Server 2008 x64, installed them and rebooted but the installation of Nutanix Guest Tools still fails. Any ideas? Thanks

How to create a new vSwitch in AHV to separate the VM traffic to go thru different physical nics?Example, CVM on default vSwitch on eth0, VM traffic on vSwitch on eth1?Also I need to configure LACP on the connection.Thanks. Anthony Yen.

I have need to stand up an ESXi nested VM for running a Singlewire Informacast VM that refuses to run on AHV natively. Following some blogs/guides, I’ve manually created a NIC with the e1000 model and it seems to work fine under ESXi 6.7 but the ESXi 7.0 installer won’t recognize the NIC. From what I’ve seen online, the e1000 driver might not be supported on ESXi 7.0 anymore.In any case, I wanted to see if anyone else has had any luck getting ESXi 7.0 working as a nested VM on AHV. Thanks.

Hello,Is there any way that we can monitor a particular VM activity - log file from Nutanix and forward it to the Syslog server.

Hello,I have been searching for KB(s) that show the services we can restart without an impact on the cluster (wither a single node or more) such as genesis stop cluster_health in KB 13150, do we have such information that we can use without the need to open a case with support? BR   

Hello,We have a scenario where we need to grant access to console VM's to some users without this users have access to prism. Do you know if exist some way that bypass authentication to launch console VM? Maybe a API call that I can pass this authentication in a code, for example? I know that in url vm, I can inform the uuid of VM's the access works, but I need grant access without directly logon on prism Thanks 

For installing a Ubuntu Server Cloud image is it still required to customize it to add the serial port as described in a 2-year old article in this forum for installing Ubuntu Server Cloud.  Also do Ubuntu Server 22.04 OVA images work or must use .img? See: Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) [20230107]  

Hi All,I am installing Nutanix AOS into Fujitsu RX2540 M5 node via foundation 5.3.3. But the installation failed with dependencies not met and Failed to register internal hypervisor. Any suggestion?===============================================================2022-12-30 18:47:18,205Z DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(192.168.100.34) @cb90>) @bc90> from PENDING to RUNNING2022-12-30 18:47:18,210Z INFO Running <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(192.168.100.34) @cb90>) @bc90>2022-12-30 18:47:18,213Z DEBUG Cache MISS: key(<function common_validations at 0x7fc52aae17d0>_()_{'global_config': <foundation.config_manager.GlobalConfig object at 0x7fc528086cd0>})2022-12-30 18:47:18,214Z INFO Running redundancy factor validations2022-12-30 18:47:18,216Z INFO Validating parameters. This may take few minutes2022-12-30 18:47:18,217Z INFO Running validations to ensure non-duplicacy of hostnames2022-12-30 18:47:18,218Z INFO Running hypervisor

There is an option to have the Storage widget turn yellow when the cluster reached a warning threshold of resilient capacity. This feature does not appear to trigger an alert in Prism Elements. Are there any options to make this trigger an alert or are there options to alert on the resilient capacity of the cluster? Managing the capacity based on anything else creates more management overhead when each cluster has to have the capacity calculated individually and the thresholds set/reset with cluster changes. Since this widget is already doing the calculation it seems redundant to have to edit the storage pool alerts on every cluster. This is an example of the Storage Widget with the warning triggered. But the storage pool has not triggered an alert based on these numbers because it doesn’t take into consideration the resilient capacity. 

When a cluster goes down due to a power failure, the VMs power back up when the hosts come back online.   Is there any way to control this and create a boot order for those VMs?

We have migrated a few Windows 2003 server VMs running on Nx / ESX to a new AHV cluster but in one of them after 3-4 hours the principal guest VM NIC stops responding and the VM has to be rebooted. We have tried deleting and adding the NIC manually with the same result so we had to roll back and boot that specific VM on the old Nutanix / ESX cluster. We plan to upgrade Fedora drivers to latest instead of stable and maybe change some network registry settings according to W2k3 best practices. Has anyone experienced this before? Any advice will be welcome.