AHV Virtualization

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.

How to Get Total vCPU count details from a cluster? 

With the proliferation of ARM64 servers upwards of 96 to 128 cores per socket, when can we expect a Nutanix AHV focused on ARM64? RedHat and other vendors have already hopped on the bandwagon.

Hello, I want to enable button for Microservices Infrastructure, but the button is disable. please see this first capture :I click “here” to see reason error, and it showing error in cmsp sub tasks, please see this second capture : How can we solve this or re-enable button “Enable Now” on first capture ?Thank you all Regards,

Hello Experts,I hope you are doing will,Can you please assist in providing a document or an explanation regarding the ramifications from switching between AOS LTS and AOS STS releases -if its possible - ? so far I have seen threads talking about switching from LTS to STS only.  BRAdel

What is the Best way to Delete Old Snapshots of VMs autmatically?

HiI have a question about VM snapshots.  I dont think this is possible otherwise I’m sure it would be obvious in PE or PC but I’ll ask anyway:Can we snapshot the VM’s active memory?  i.e. include the active OS memory in the snapshot, the equivalent of ESXI’s .vmem fileI’ve read up on crash vs application consistent snapshots but I dont see a mention of capturing the OS memoryThanks

Hello,There is a way to enable and configure IPFIX exporter to an external servicewhich is not Application Discovery service ?

Guys, Aim building a Nutanix resume ,please share with me if anyone has, will be grateful for that RegardsRabbani 

Hi guys, I have 3 node  1065 G7 cluster 5.20 and planning to upgrade to 6.5.1.6. Post I am adding 1065 G8 to the existing. Is there any issues if I image the 1065 G8 to 5.20 then add it to the cluster and upgrade all together tp 6.5.1.6? 

Hi,I followed instructions to migrate a Windows 2013 server from ESX to AHV successfully according using Nx MOVE to https://www.vmwaremine.com/2019/01/24/migrate-windows-2003-x86-to-nutanix-ahv/#sthash.8hpeCflP.T3i44mTW.dpbs, it works great by the way. Now… In the process SCSI disks are cloned to IDE and the Windows 2013 SCSI controller is not recognized.  In this scenario, Is it possible to reconvert those disks back to SCSI? I guess I need to get the driver first (Fedora?) and follow available procedure to reconvert, Has anyone done this? Thanks! 

I am posting this as a general FYI in case others encounter this issue and are looking for a work around. Additionally, I am making this more Nutanix specific.I recently created a base image for Windows Server 2022 Standard. I started with a small C Drive, 100GB.When I cloned it for my first production server and I went to expand the C Drive, the default partition scheme that Server 2022 installs with, places the Windows recovery partition AFTER the primary partition. The result is an inability to expand the C Drive partition through Disk Management.Preface: I mention these because many online forums suggested these as solutions.I understood that I could simply delete the recovery partition. For various reasons I did not want to. I understand it is best practice to install most applications etc. onto another drive. In this instance I did not want to. I understand that there are 3rd party applications that I can use to manipulate the partitions. I did not want to.Solution: Overall you n

Hey Guys,I have a 3 node cluster. I am planning to add a new node to the existing. Since I already have a cluster, once I rack mounted and connected the cables to the nodes should I go for foundation for node setup or can I use expand cluster option?

The setup is a cluster with 3 hosts. The cluster is up and running.However, the VMs connected to one of the hosts are not able to access the internet or other VMs on the network.If any of the affected VM is migrated to another host in the cluster, then it will be able to access the internet or other VMs on the network.Once it is returned to the faulty host, the connectivity problem will persist again. 

Hi. So our nutanix system is arriving in a few days, it’s now in the country.  I’m going onsite in mid January to set it up where do I begin.  We are going to be using Acropolis (excuse the spelling if wrong). From what I gather i’m just going to have rather a lot of boxes around 95kg in total, I guess once i’ve worked out how to put the hardware together where the heck do i begin getting acropolis installed on it all, I possibly just missed it but was expecting an easier Idiots guide this is where you start with your new system. We are going to be setting up various windows servers when we get to that stage.  I’m ok with VMWare but never used Nutanix before. I might be in the wrong forum dumped it in AHV Virtualisation as i’m assuming that’s Acropolis.  That’s how new  I am :) Cheers EDIT: Only just thought i guess i should wait till i see the kit it might come with a start here guide.