AHV Virtualization

Hi All, I've just published an article on my blog regarding what I consider the top 5 best practies or tips for successful SQL Server virtualization projects. Thought you might like to check it out: http://longwhiteclouds.com/2017/02/01/best-practices-for-running-sql-server-virtualized/ Kind regards, Michael

Hey Everyone. So, I am relatively new to the whole Nutanix game. Im curious what everyone is suggestion is for CVM allocation. We had nutanix do our original provisioning, but the provisions the installer set it up with seem a bit excessive. 10 Cores and 32gb ram per CVM, Any thoughts?

Hi, we have the need for nested shares on our fileserver. While this was easy on NetApp Filer it seems impossible with Nutanix AFS, or I am missing something. We are currently on latest GA release AFS 2.0.2. with AOS 5.0.2 on ESXi 6.0U2. Is this on the roadmap or even possible with AFS 2.1? Replacing Fileservers (Windows or NetApp, doesnt matter) could only be done with full feature set. best regards Steffen

I am suffering with exausthives crashing in my Domino server and IBM support said that the possible problem is related to disks. I did an analysis in Prism and there are really trace of problems. The storage bandwith for this VM is much higher than all others. Is there anyone running Lotus Domino sever on Nutanix Cluster? I would like to hear your feedback and feeling about it. I am using Nutanix with vSphere 5.5.

As the most of you probably know, with AOS 5.6, has been introduced the Volume Group with Load Balancing function, well known as VGLB As i know the 5.6 version is in short term support. Now i'm deploying a two Oracle 12c RAC clusters on 2 8000 6-nodes AOS-AHV clusters with AOS 5.5.3.1. It involves using volume group with multiple vdisk, network related configuration, Linux related tuning and so on... Of course, with 5.5.3.1 (so far the latest GA version in long term support), i've not the VGLS choice, every volume group's I/O is managed by a single CVM. By the other side, with AOS 5.6, i could distribute this load on every single CVM and every single node storage on the cluster. Of couse this heavily impact on the resiliency, the performance and the resources distribution. The questions are two and i need some suggestions. 1) could be better to upgrade to 5.6 even if it is in short term support? 2) is it possible to update "on the fly" the volumes's configuration with "vg.upd

Can anyone tell me if the inter-site (not intra-site, I am talking about DR replication traffic between clusters) is moved to the backplane traffic port when network segmentation is enabled? The Prism Web Console Guide v5.5 does not say so (it only mentions intra-cluster traffic): The traffic entering and leaving a Nutanix cluster can be broadly classified into the following types: Backplane trafficBackplane traffic is intra-cluster traffic that is necessary for the cluster to function, and comprises traffic between CVMs, traffic between CVMs and hosts, storage traffic, and so on. (For nodes that have RDMA-enabled NICs, the CVMs use a separate RDMA LAN for Stargate-to-Stargate communications.) Management trafficManagement traffic is administrative traffic, or traffic associated with Prism and SSH connections, remote logging, SNMP, and so on. The current implementation simplifies the definition of management traffic to be any traffic that is not on the backplane network, and th

Good evening. We are evaluating some nutanix offerings from a local partner. However I have some Microsoft related question and the partner is taking too long to respond. 1- Is there a version of Nutanix Acropolis/PRISM (4 node)that allows me to run unlimited Windows VMs without me needing to purchase a MS Windows DataCenter Core License from Microsoft? 2- Is there a PRISM/Acropolis Pro version that comes with a built in Windows Datacenter valid license? Or 3-Do I need (as usual) to buy my Datacenter Core licenses to properly license my new Windows VMs? Thanks

I have a BOM based in cluster 1465 G6 and the end customer wants the estimate IOPS or performance that the solution can be reach. ¿Where I can get this information? Regards.

I'm monitoring server from NUTANIX found memory full 100% anytime , How can I fix for this problem?

I am currently running VMware but will be soon switching to AHV. Will be purchasing a APC UPS with parchute software. Does anyone know if this is compatible for AHV? Does anyone out there with a UPS running AHV care to comment how they are managing the graceful shutdown of their Nodes and VMs in the event of power loss?

My issue is related to installing the Direct Access role on a AHV VM running server 2016. Here is my environment. AOS: 5.6 Hypervisor: Nutanix 20170830.115 Windows OS: Server 2016 VirtIO Drivers 1.1.2 Server Imaged with SCCM I've deployed many Direct Access servers in the past and I am seeing very unique issues with trying to configure it on AHV for the first time. 1.) After configuring the role, the Tunnel adapter 6TO4 is NOT created 2.)After configuring the role, the Tunnel adapter IPHTTPSInterface is NOT created 3.)After configuring the role, the server fails to retrieve gpudpates 4.) Upon rebooting the server, the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service fails to start. However, if I deploy the EXACT same server image on a VMware VM, it works perfectly. Is there a known issue when deploying the DirectAccess role on a AHV(KVM) VM?

Hello, like other post i know if exist an UPS brand to graceful shutdown Nutanix clusters in Vmware enviroment. I've read that about APC, is ti working? https://next.nutanix.com/blog-40/apc-powerchute-network-shutdown-is-certified-nutanix-ready-core-management-operations-19890 Thanks in advance

Can any one high light or point me the core technical differences between AFS and native file services solution??

Nutanix Tech Marketing Engineer Andy Daniel wrote up a short paragraph recently as an overview to the Storage efficiency features including compression. Share what you are doing for your different workloads in your environments (Nutanix or otherwise). -- To optimize storage capacity and accelerate application performance, the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric uses data efficiency techniques such as deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. They are intelligent & adaptive, and in most cases, require little or no fine-tuning. In fact, two levels of post-process compression are enabled in conjunction with cold data classification by default on new shipping clusters. Because they’re entirely software driven, it also means existing customers can take advantage of new capabilities and enhancements by upgrading AOS. DSF provides both inline and post-process compression to maximize capacity. Many times, customers incorrectly associate compression with reduced performance, but this

Hello everyone What is important to be aware of migrating Windows VM from ESXi to AHV?Is the version of AOS important? Anything else? Please help me.

I have recently upgraded my vCenter from 6.0 -> 6.5u1, and I'm not looking to upgrade my ESXi 6.0u3 installs to 6.5u1. My first attempt was to use one-click hypervisor upgrade, and I was able to uploading the ISO and MD5 checksum, but the pre-upgrade check errors out pretty quickly with a fairly generic error message saying "unable to determine version of bundle." Did a few re-download and re-upload attempts to verify my file integrity but the error persisted. I then tried to do the upgrade old-school style using VUM which is conveniently baked into my VCSA as of 6.5, and I got another generic error message inside of update manager, "The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs:" with nothing but blank space following the colon. Typically I would have expected to see an individual VIB called out in list form, but there is just nothing there. I am fully patched to current using Nutanix LCM, so I suspect it is probably one of the LSI HBA updates that LCM has slipped in

We wanted to look at deploying teradata on to our vmware / nutanix environment. Does anyone have expereince with this? I'm hearing that Teradata does nto support nfs for datastores when virtualized, but the way nutanix handles disks negates a lot of the typical nfs problems. Are there any best practices to follow for teradata, and has anyone had experience with this?

Is there a definitive list of guest operating systems that are supported on AHV?

Hi, We are runnning PC at 5.5.0.2 & NX cluster with AOS 5.5. While uploading meta & binary it showing error as "NOS binary version is incompatible with Registered PC" whereas on software upload showing warning as "There was a problem in retrieving the compatibility information. Please make sure that the upgrade version is compatible with your PC version."

Hi... I can't create a Instance in Availiable Zone on openstack portal with this error. PS: Hypervisor is an AHV on Nutanix Hardware with Nutanix openstack component (OVM)

Is it possible to download AHV vm disk in AOS 5.5 using 2222 scp?

Hi, In 5.5 when you upload image using prism central it gets uploded at selfservice container. If I want to create different container using image stored in selfservice container how to achieve that?

Hi, we're starting to look at using Spark on our Nutanix cluster. Not in a huge way but to run some ETL processes in parallel. I'm under pressure to install Hadoop, or at least HDFS on the cluster but the entire concept of adding a distributed, resilient "filesystem" (actually I think it's more an object store) on top of the one already provided by Nutanix seems somewhat off. Is there a recommended way of doing this? I know that containers are exported to ESXi via NFS. Would that be usable? Would that be able to leverage stargate to access from anywhere? All I really need is a globally available volume shared between all my nodes.

Hey you splunkers – with Splunk conf right around the corner, bet you are all jazzed up and ready for the show. Wanted to let you know that Nutanix is participating in our first ever Splunk Conf and we are sure excited to be here. We have some amazing giveaways and some exciting events planned for the week. We have demos at our booth #G10, a Breakout Session at 12:05 on Tuesday Sep 26, 2017 and a great Happy Hour on Wednesday Sep 27 from 6:00- 8:00 PM. First off, if you don’t know Nutanix- we are a company founded with a vision to simplify the datacenter. Making it super easy and efficient to run Splunk software with the performance and flexibility you need to solve your business challenges and focus on the app, not the infrastructure, is the continuation of that original vision. We are pronounced “Newt-Anix” and no we are not a health cereal and granola company, we are an amazing technology Enterprise Cloud Company. For those of you who know us, you probably already love all our g

Hi I found the KB below stating you can't virtualize domain controllers on Nutanix Hyper-V. https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/kbs/details?targetId=kA032000000TTGWCA4 Quote: "Why? Because Hyper-V wants to contact the AD server before it can power up any VM on Nutanix storage, and the AD server would not be available because the VM cannot be booted." I am of the understanding that this might have been a thing in up until 2008 R2, but this should not be a problem when running Hyper-V on 2012 R2. Anyone that could shed some light on the matter? Would like to call the support line, but that is not an option right now since it has nothing to do with our own nutanix nodes. EDIT: Solved. Found out it is due to the SMB3 share of the nutanix cluster, which requires authentication from the domain.