AHV Virtualization

Hi,In the Prism Central v3 API, when making a POST request to the clusters/list endpoint and the hosts/list endpoint, the offset and length parameters are ignored. As a result, the response returns all the clusters/hosts irrespective of the parameters passed.Has this issue already been reported, and do you happen to know when we can expect it to be fixed?Thanks in advance.

HiWe have a cluster running on AHV and have recently found that its not possible to host guest VMs running Hyper-V within them, as a layer 2 hypervisor.The scenario is we have a few Windows 2016 VMs running on ESXi at the moment and each VM has the Hyper-V role installed in Windows 2016, providing containers for Docker.We want to move the VMs to our Nutanix cluster but running Hyper-V within a VM is not a supported type of nested virtualisation.Support say there are only 2 types of nested virtualisation supported:  Credential Guard and WSL2.Docker is able to use WSL2 for containers as an alternative to Hyper-V but our problem is we need to stick to Windows because our apps are coded for Windows and our Dev team are not keen on re-writing everything!I’m looking for an unofficial workaround, is there a way to force AHV to allow in-guest layer 2 hypervisors to run?   Its possible on ESXi, it feels like there should be an option in the host’s BIOS to enable compatibility.Any ideas would be

Is it possible to install AVH on a non Nutanix machine?  If so, where can I download it from? Tia - Phil

Hey Team,I need a little bit of assistance here. I am new to Nutanix and currently attempting to deploy the community edition for some testing. However, I’ve been following several different guides out there and not having much luck.Installing on VM using ESXi 7.0 (VM version 17). I created new VM w/ Centos 7 compatibility and loaded the ISO.ISO was downloaded from here:https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/download-community-edition-38417And md5sum matches.The ISO loads and boots up. I then go through the CLI UI installation and get past to the last screen where it should start installing but then get an error that I need help troubleshooting:Last Screen:Then the Error right after the previous screenshot:Looking at the error, there is reference to minimum requirements but I’m pretty sure I meet them on this VM but if this is what it is, then I can look at a newer beefier server to test on:8CPUs24GB of MemorySata1 20GbsSata2 50GbsSate3 50Gbs​Anyone seen this error before? Any ad

Hi all, after migrating SQL Server(2K12) from ESXi to AHV, all schedule jobs whithin SQL server are taking much longer. any idea what could lead to this behavior?

Hi everyone, We’re using v3/vms/list endpoint to get the information for the VMs. We’re getting last_update_time in the response. Truncated response for a VM:"metadata": { "last_update_time": "2023-06-08T10:49:22Z", "kind": "vm", "uuid": "cff450d3-dd1f-4d7d-9651-9b38164cb7e5", "creation_time": "2023-06-08T10:49:01Z"}I was expecting that if we change any properties of the VM like RAM, Disk Space, etc then last_update_time should get updated. However, irrespective of the value that we change, the last_update_time doesn’t get updated. Additionally, there is no time field which we can use to track the VM updation. Is this an expected behavior? Please let me know if I am missing something. 

access CVM nutanix@CVM$ ssh root@192.168.5.1 "ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=10"nutanix@CVM$ ssh root@192.168.5.1 "ovs-vsctl list port br0" Configure VLAN tags for the CVM:nutanix@CVM$ change_cvm_vlan 10

I wanted to check in to see if anyone has done a Cisco WLC with AHV, we are migrating from VMWare and currently use VGT (VLAN 4095) but it doesn’t look like there is an equivalent. Has anyone been able to get this working?

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There is a way to collect virtual machine performance from Prism Central using v3 RESTApi ?Or my only way is to using Prism Element via v1 RESTApi ?

For our development work, we are using /v3/hosts/list endpoint. As per the specs, we want to use length and offset for pagination to fetch large number of hosts. We tried using it as follows:curl --location --request POST 'https://<host>:9440/api/nutanix/v3/hosts/list' \--header 'accept: application/json' \--header 'Content-Type: application/json' \--header 'Authorization: Basic abc' \--data-raw '{ "kind": "host", "length": 1, "offset": 9}'However, length and offset params doesn’t seem to be working. It returns all the hosts (2 in our case) irrespective of the params passed.  Also, we used the same params in /v3/vms/list and they are working as expected. So, wanted to know if this is expected or is this an open issue? Is there a way to get all the hosts through Prism Central (v3) APIs?  

In waiting for possibility to deploy VMs from templates with Ansible (see https://next.nutanix.com/ahv-virtualization-27/how-deploy-vm-from-prismcentral-template-with-ansible-nutanix-module-41800), i’tm trying to use cloning, see playbook below.  The demo playbook with same parameters works fine to get cluster info for "{{ prism_cluster }}".The cloning fails with error  :KeyError: 'cluster_reference'What is missing in playbook ?Thx  

As stated in the question, how do I create a template from a VM in AHV?And how do I use the template to create a VM?

 As shown in the picture here, my VM’s UUID is not completely displayed. How can I see the full UUID?Or is there any other place I can view the full UUID?

Hi All ,I had created two VM’s of RHEL7 and RHEL8 in AOS 6.5.2 and while validating the SCSI id’s for disk using lsscsi --scsi_id command for RHEL7 am getting vendor specific SCSI_ID identifier and for RHEL8 am getting NAA scsi_id identifier. Is it possible to get the vendor specific scsi_id identifier for RHEL8. Rhel7 SCSI_ID:   Rhel8 scsi_id:  Types:  ThanksTeja K 

I am getting this warning on my Prism CentralWARN: VM ad_linux_test has 1 snapshot(s) that have existed in the storage for more than 7 days.Refer to KB 4273 (http://portal.nutanix.com/kb/4273) for details on aged_entity_centric_third_party_backup_snapshot_check or Recheck with: ncc health_checks data_protection_checks protection_domain_checks aged_entity_centric_third_party_backup_snapshot_check I dont see any VM by name ad_linux_test in my inventory.I have also checked Prism Central UI -> Virtual Infrastructure -> VM Recovery Points -> Select the VMnothing in that  I am not sure how to cleanup this snapshot. I dont want to extend the warning threshold as per the KB 4273

HelloThere are sites that have VDI configurations.Files configured on the above site.There is personal storage allocated for each user using Files.Is there a way to recover only one piece of personal storage other than a full backup of Files using Data Protection?

Hello, under storage details I have had a Snapshot listed using 1.36TiB for a few weeks now and I’m not able to locate where it is. Is there any commands that can help me find it?  acli snapshot.list does not list any   

Hi, I am going to deploy with three node cluster and while doing the node imaging getting dependence issue can any one help me.

ICAP stands for internet content adaption protocol is an open standard being adopted to connect devices to enterprise-level virus scan engine . same way with the nutanix files is to enable communication with external servers hosting third-party anti-virus software to scan inbound data (files) in transit via Secure Proxy before sending it to the backend destination server.ICAP WORKFLOWThe ICAP service runs on each Nutanix Files file server and can interact with more than one ICAP server in parallel to support horizontal scale-out of the antivirus server. The scale-out nature of Files and one-click optimization greatly mitigate any antivirus scanning performance overhead. If the scanning affects Nutanix Files FSVM performance, one-click optimization recommends either increasing the virtual CPU resources or scaling out the FSVMs. This feature also helps both the ICAP server and Files scale out, ensuring fast responses from the customer’s antivirus vendor WHY Nutanix files integration with

Trunked Mode allows multiple VLANs on a single NIC for VMs that are VLAN aware.by default, NIC cards are in access mode.mode can't be changed from the UI (Prism) and the solution is to update from CVM acliyou can also covert exiting NIC card to Trunked Mode however based on my experience best and easy way is to add a new cardStepsSSH CVM acli <acropolis> vm.get VMNAME copy information in notepad nutanix@CVM~$ acli vm.nic_create <vm name> network=<network name> trunked_networks=<comma separated list of allowed VLAN IDs> vlan_mode=kTrunked example:-vm.nic_create VT-LAB-1 network=NETWORK0 trunked_networks=2021,2022 vlan_mode=kTrunkedWHY Trunked is Required Above Setting is required when the virtual machine needs to create multiple networks on a single interface. in my case it's WAF devices that are configured for multiple VLANs, each VLAN is associated with a different kind of applicationif you want to add more VLANs run the belowvm.nic_update TT-WAF-01 00:68:8

Cross hypervisor disaster recovery (CHDR) provides the ability to migrate the VMs from onehypervisor to another (ESXi to AHV or AHV to ESXi) by using the protection domain semanticsof protecting VMs, generating snapshots, replicating the snapshots, and then recovering theVMs from the snapshotsKey notes install and configure NGT on all the VMs When you recover VMs from the AHV hypervisor on the ESXi hypervisor, the VMs come up with E1000 NIC attached by default. However, if you want to bring the VMs up withVMXNET NIC is attached, you must install VMware Tools Static IP address preservation is not supported for CHDR workflows. If a VM has an astatic IP address configured, you must manually reconfigure the VM IP address after its recovery on the target site. Hypervisor-specific properties like multi-writer flags, independent persistent and independent non-persistent disks, or changed block tracking (CBT) is not preserved in the CHDR operation RequirementsNutanix supports only VMs with

ssh nutanix move admin@move on ~ $ rs enter password root@move on ~ $ configure-static-ip Enter the required information as shown in the following example. Do you want to configure static IPv4 address?(y/N)yEnter Static IPv4 Address (e.g. 10.136.97.98)10.136.7.1Enter Netmask (e.g. 255.255.255.0)255.255.255.0Enter Gateway IP Address (e.g. 10.136.97.1)10.136.72.1Enter DNS Server 1 IP Address (e.g. 10.136.74.189)10.136.72.189Enter DNS Server 2 IP Address (e.g. 10.136.74.190)10.136.72.190Enter Domain (e.g. blr.ste.lab)bltr.ste.lab  retry the failed replication

We are running a Nutanix environment with 3 CVM nodes (A,B,C) on 3 separate ESXI hosts (7.0 Update 3) with 3 IPMI configurations using vCLS. Originally, Node A failed during an FSM upgrade and was unable to talk correctly to our Houston Datastore (MCQ-HOU). In doing so, there was no snapshot and we were unable to roll it back. We were currently in the midst of attempting to create a new node on the same ESXI host (.204) through Nutanix Prism but when searching for any existing or accessible hosts it does not find any of them and we are unable to create a new one. We attempted to shut down the cluster, unmount the Datastore on the broken node and re-mount it once we were able to clone a functioning node and change the configuration. In doing so, we are now unable to mount the datastore with the following commands and were presented with an error:esxcli storage nfs remove -v 192.168.5.2:MCQ-Hou Unmountesxcli storage nfs add -H MCQ-Hou -v MCQ-Hou -s 192.168.5.2 MountPlease see the VMkerne

Hi guys, i need imformation about max nodes per cluster for one of our implementation.I cant find any official information for max cluster size.Thanks