AHV Virtualization

Hi Guy’s I'm trying to update our Dev environment which runs on community edition, and AOS, NCC etc all working via LCM, for the AHV though it will just keep failing every single time.It just goes round in a loop watching from the ilo, it first does choose AHV re image, the it reboots and get to that same screen and then just boots to current AHV OS.So is there a way to do this manually without it affecting the CVM’s config running on them?ThanksMark

Hello every one Can you supporting me in my Case we have now 3 nodes NX and we need add new node NX-8135N.When I foundation vm the installation failed and I get this log error  

Hi,I have recently deployed a pair of AHV clusters on a customer. Each cluster has its own Prism Central cause they are going to be part of a Metro availability environment with a witness VM on a third site.Now the customer is asking me if he could have some kind of overview and managing of both clusters from a single dashboard.I think that Nutanix Central could accomplish that request, however I’ve never deployed it and I have some questions.Checking the documentation I see that you can deploy it onpremise by downloading it from each Prism Central marketplace. So I assume it will deploy a VM appliance on each cluster (similar to prism central) and I should have to config it.Are there any specific tips that you could provide before deploying it?By the way, both clusters have PC 7.5.0.5 and AHV 11, everything is up to date, so I assume there is no incompatibility with nutanix central.T

Hi Does anyone having experience or recommendation for tuning Postgresql Server Workload on Nutanix? We followed the Nutanix SQL Server Best Practices and Micheal Webster's Recommandations for vDisk and LVM layout at: http://longwhiteclouds.com/2014/11/27/performance-testing-mysql-and-postgresql-with-hammerdb-and-pgbench/ Unfortunately, the Performance does not meet our expactation compared to our old PostgreSQL server running on a NetApp Filer. Out Setup: 3 Nodes Nutanix Cluster NX-6035-G4 with 1200 GB SSD, NOS 4.6.11 vSphere 6

Hi,I am trying to move a Windows Server 2012 R2 VM from Xenserver to AHV. With reference to this article: AHV | Migrating a Windows VM from XenServer to AHV everything is working great except when I am at the last step. When I turn on the VM in AHV, I am getting a boot device not found error and windows will not boot up.Windows will start with a windows icon throws the error and restarts, then goes into disk repair, reboots and same error and goes into the troubleshooting menu and when I am restart the VM in AHV it again and always goes into the boot disk inaccessible error.I made sure all the Xen components are already uninstalled from the vm and Nutanix VirtIO drivers are also installed. Tried with loading the image as scsi and IDE, but still going into the same error. Also tried booting up in safe mode, tried di

I was honored by my company, and recieve 1 block 4 nodes NX-3060-G5 for use on my own projects. It’s a old node without support and inside of EOL list. What happened is that, i don’t know how, received an alert saying that AHV had a crash on files. But 20 seconds after the host was okay, and the alert was solved itself. But, 3 machines which was working into this node crashed too, preventing access through console, migrate the VMs, power off, etc. I tried remove the host for reimage it, but is stuck: And when I ran the NCLI command to remove the host, trying get the status, shows the follow:  Anyone could help me for solve this issue? An

Hi All, Just wanted to let you know that using traditional SQL failover clusters and SQL FCI, or any MSCS / Microsoft failover cluster is available in tech preview as of NOS 4.1.5. This is because we have introduced SCSI 3 Persistent Reservations to the iSCSI stack. To implement a cluster you need to use the MS iSCSI Initator and the Nutanix Volume Groups contract and iSCSI target for in-Guest iSCSI access. This will become a full GA feature in an upcoming release of NOS. Please experiment with it and let us know your thoughts.

We attempted to migrate our ODNS as well as setup new VM's in AHV by extracting the vmdk's but each time we get the below screen on boot. Has anyone else successfully got the ODNS VA to run in AHV? I've tried editing the vm's xml file to change the video type and vram but no luck as of yet:

I want to Install Nutanix on Dell power edge R740xd but i faced lots of error, there log screens show these errors When i Used nutanix foundation for windows the error i faced IPMItools is missing, i tried foundation on virtualbox but still ipmi can,t mount iso file What should I do to run th

Hi fellas,Does anyone have a clear answer of what is the real cost of AHV?  I’m told that AHV is free but is this referring to only Nutanix Community Edition? What about AOS? when purchasing a Nutanix node/block/cluster, these come pre-installed but the cluster essentially has no ‘smarts’ without the CVM which is AOS.Referencing this Licensing Quick Reference Guide, it looks like AHV is included with AOS but AOS’ licensing metric is charged per node.  Am I reading this correctly?Is it possible to run AHV without AOS? Thanks,JS

Hello mates, We have 2x NX3350 and Arista switch which handle roughly 100 VM. Workloads are: 20x VM with heavy disk workload which are used mainly for reporting and analysis. R/W ratio is roughly 50/50. They created 20K IOPS workload when they lived on SAN storage with RAID10 and tiny flash tier and average latency was always below 5 ms. 10x VM which are used for application virtualization 70x VM which are use for desktop virtualization. Now, when we migrated to Nutanix, we have only 4K cluster IOPS and 20 ms latency which does not seems to be very good for us. Trying to resolve the issue, we enabled inline compression and increased CVM memory up to 20GB. We also tried to change tier sequential write priority. Unfortunately, this does not help. ncc, cluster status and prism health claim that everything is ok. Before we migrated our environment, we've run diagnostic VM and the results was roughly 100K IOPS for re

Hello Nutanix Community,I’m reaching out for help after spending a significant amount of time troubleshooting an issue where a Nutanix cluster cannot complete initialization. I would truly appreciate any insight from the community, as I believe I have exhausted all standard troubleshooting paths.This cluster was previously created successfully and had been running in production without issues.However, due to security-related changes in our IT infrastructure, we were required to re-address the entire environment, including: CVM IPs Hypervisor IPs IPMI IPs Because of this requirement, I intentionally chose the cleanest and officially recommended approach, which was: Reclaim licenses Stop the cluster Destroy the cluster Rebuild the cluster from scratch using Nutan

Dear Community, I have an issue. I'm installing a Windows 2008 standard (not R2 nor SP1) on a AHV cluster and then I need the virtIO drivers. It works fine for the iSCSI passthrough driver and the baloon. But the Networking adapter is failed. It says drivers are not signed and cannot be verified, I bypass the warning and then it says there is an error, driver corrupt blablabla. I have tried the latest Nutanix virtIO without any luck - whatever OS version, they all failed. any magic idea ? Thanks 😉

Does anyone have some experience with running SAP on Nutanix, doesn't matter if it runs on HyperV or VMware. Oracle or MS SQL is ok. Just looking for some feedback and best practices. Kind regards Bart

A warm happy new year to all Nutanix community.As a Nutanix SE role one of my objective is to collect customer feedback not only on features and functionality but also for UI and UX (user experience).I often get some user interface feedbacks from customers while doing HPOCs or Demos, but I would like to understand if you can help us improve even more. I would like to understand what are the main areas where our graphical interface could be a little better. ⚽🏀🎾 I want to play a little game with everyone would like to join 🏏🏈🏐 [Game Rules]Post a screenshot of our interface (feel free to blur out some information) Highlight some areas of the screenshot Write do

i want to migrate VMs from ahv to ahv in the same cluster (let say from node A to node B) but the VMs status is powered off, in my case i dont want to powered on the VMs, i just want to migrate the VMs to another host without powered it on(live migrate). is there any workaround to do that ?Thank you all

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 ??

RDP to guest vm’s running Windows Server 2022 are freezing a few seconds after connecting. Running latest VirtIO drivers 1.1.7. After rebooting the guest, RDP seems to work ok for an hour or so before freezing again. Guest memory utilization 48%, CPU 3-5% so no issue there.

I am trying to deploy Prism Central but unable to do that, getting below error. Not sure what I am doing wrong, this happens during post deployment.  

We have just had a new cluster installed and its running AHV, I have used Nutanix for about 6 years but always with ESX so its all a bit new to me!I’m sure I’ll have a few questions but currnetly I have this annoying issue! I have uploaded a few images to PC, qcow2 files, but when I deploy a VM using the images it always creates the VMs in the selfservicecontainer storage container, which is a tad annoying as I then have to move it manually using  acli vm.update_container vm-name container=container name wait=false In PC the storage container drop down box for the VM is grayed out so I can’t change it in the PC web GUI.  the cli works but I would like to create the VM in what ever storage container I want without having to move it after the event!  Is this possible? 

G'day one and all, We're a new nutanix site and have been migrating machines from our previous HyperVisor over to Acropolis/KVM. Our older servers have been no problems at all, 2003 and 2008 servers. however all our 2012R2 servers are having problems where the storage drivers are not being seen. To test I have tried a new install ont a VM from install DVD. Driver load screens comes up and I point it to the correct location on the nutanix VirtIO drivers ISO image. All drivers are seen, i.e. shows the correct drivers to load, but when selected and goes to load the drivers, and error stating "No new device drivers were found. Make sure installation media contains the correct drivers" The VM Disk is configured as scsi Regards, stephen...

Hello Everyone! I am using AHV and would like to create a duplicate of my production environment alongside the actual production environment. The point is that we have some highly specialised network software that needs to be tested as though in the actual environment before we actually deploy it there. This software is frequently updated and occasionally an update creates havoc, requiring lots of downtime and restoration of significant portions of the network. So what i am looking for is to have a protected space in AHV that thinks and behaves identically to our production environment (but with no actual interaction with the real network or the internet ... just via AHV consoles.) Thank you in advance for any help you can offer!

What is the best approach to migrate data to a nutanix hyper-v failover cluster from a normal hyper-v failover cluster. I used export from the old host (Whitelisted in PRISM) and it succeeds fine but as the data is exported to the cluster FQDN, how do I know which node to use to import the files to make best use of data locality? is there a way to have the VM exported to a specific node?

Hi I am an absolute noob so please be gentle to me. Can I know if Nutanix supports applications built that run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Basically, I have many applications that run on RHEL 7 that I am in the process of virtualizing using RHEV. So when I googled and saw this article below I was curious if Nutanix really supported RHEL and RHEV? http://www.computerweekly.com/news/2240173672/Nutanix-supports-Red-Hat-KVM-in-upgraded-storage-stack-hardware-and-OS Can someone confirm?

I ugraded my ESXi hosts using 1-click upgrade to VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-15160138.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A04 with no issues. Trying to apply patch ESXi670-202004002.zip using 1-click upgrade and get the following error: Upgrade bundle is not compatible with current VIBs installed in hypervisor. [DependencyError] VIB QLC_bootbank_qedi_2.10.19.0-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922 requires qedentv_ver = X.11.15.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. I am able to successfully patch using esxcli and update manager.  I updated the image profile to DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-15160138-A04 on the hosts thinking that may resolve the issue but this did not work. Anyone have any suggestions to get 1-click upgrade to function with 6.7u3?