AHV Virtualization

How can I set a UEFI default resolution using the API to create a vm?

Hi,Nutanix friends,I’m considering to choice many disks hardware using NCI Edge license.In actually I need 800TB effective capacity.However in my recognation,using NCI Edge licence is not over 5nodes each cluster.Which hardware shoud I choice?Perhaps,NX-8055-G9 is the most disks installed,180TB hdd per node.

I am currently operating a Nutanix cluster with Cisco UCSC-C240-M7 nodes. I am considering expanding this cluster by adding two Cisco B200 M5 servers as compute-only nodes. Before proceeding, I’d like to confirm the following:1. Is it possible to install AHV Hypervisor on Cisco B200 M5 servers and integrate them as compute-only nodes into our existing Nutanix cluster?2. Are there any specific configurations or firmware requirements for the B200 M5 servers to ensure compatibility with Nutanix AHV (the blades are UCS managed)?3. Can you provide any documentation or guidance on the best practices for this type of integration?Thank you

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

Nutanix offers compatibility with all major hypervisors (Hyper-V, ESXi, XEN) to be able to host virtual machines on it and leverage the benefits of a truly distributed scale out storage fabric.Nutanix qualifies all releases of 3rd Party hypervisors in order to ensure smooth operations for customers using the respective hypervisors.From the Nutanix Support FAQs:For hypervisor releases:For Major/Minor hypervisor releases (eg ESXi 6.5, Windows Server 2016 Build 14393) the goal is to qualify within 90 days of the software GA release date. Nutanix may qualify the latest hypervisor Major/Minor release in conjunction with the latest (or upcoming) AOS release first. Nutanix advises customers to wait until any Major/Minor release is qualified by Nutanix prior to deployment.Please make sure to visit the following link in

Is there any resolution to the "svm failed with reasons (None)" error during install using foundation 

when i issue this command there different foundation versionshow can i upgrade 10.11.12.35 to the same version of other cvmsallssh 'cat ~/foundation/foundation_version'================== 10.11.12.35 =================foundation-5.5-02013d8b================== 10.11.12.37 =================foundation-5.6.1-a98b2e5f================== 10.11.12.36 =================foundation-5.6.1-a98b2e5fnutanix@NTNX-16SM6C420270-B-CVM:10.11.12.36:~$ 

NIC MAC address can only be configured via acli.It is not possible to change MAC address for an existing NIC. A NIC has to be deleted and then added back with the new MAC address. Nutanix AHV assigns NIC MAC addresses from the range: 50:6B:8D:00:00:00 – 50:6B:8D:FF:FF:FF A statically configured MAC will persist on a Protection Domain migration, but not on any clone or recover from snapshot operation Run the following command on any CVM in the cluster to add a new NIC with a customized MAC address:nutanix@CVM~$ acli vm.nic_create <vm name> network=<network name> mac=<new MAC address>If Network name is not working or not present, we can use Network UUID from acli vm.get <VM-NAME> or acli net.list:nutanix@CVM~$ acli vm.nic_create <vm name> network=<Network-UUID> mac=<new MAC address>Note: “:”

Hi, Hello,Am looking for help on snapshots and reverting to recovery points. Is my PC GUI fully equipped to handle snapshots and restore to snaps? sometimes for some vms it works and it doesn't for for few other vms. as a workaround we were asked to do it via CLI. though this may get fixed in later versions, any RCA on why this happens? am on AHV 6.x version.Are these snapshots work exactly like the snapshots from VMware or is it different?

Hello everyone, I am trying to deploy VMs from a template by using terraform ( nutanix_deploy_templates_v2 ). I have located the UUID of the template i want to use and terraform plan works with no issues. When I go to apply the changes it errors telling me the template is not located on that server. I have quadruple checked the addresses etc and even had it peer checked so we are happy with the code. Has anyone else experienced this or am I just being dumb?Any help would be appreciated - cheers

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 ?

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. 

Memory and CPUs are hot-pluggable on guest VMs running on AHV. You can increase the memory allocation and the number of CPUs on your VMs while the VMs are powered on. You can change the number of vCPUs (sockets) while the VMs are powered on. However, you cannot change the number of cores per socket while the VMs are powered on.You can change the memory and CPU configuration of your VMs by using the Acropolis CLI (aCLI), Prism Element (see Managing a VM (AHV) in the Prism Web Console Guide), or Prism Central (see Managing a VM (AHV and Self Service) in the Prism Central Guide).Memory OS Limitations On Linux operating systems, the Linux kernel might not make the hot-plugged memory online. If the memory is not online, you cannot use the new memory. Perfo

has anyone else seen this issue?  We have a Azure NC2 cluster (not in prd yet) and have been notified that we could face the following issueWe would like to inform you about a recently discovered issue where inconsistent CPU microcode configuration will affect the ability to live migrate VMs (internally tracked as ENG-723026). This arises when a Nutanix cluster is upgraded to AHV versions 20230302.103003, 20230302.102005, 10.0.0.1, or 10.0, followed by cluster expansion or node replacement. In such cases, live migration of newly created VMs will encounter issues. Our records show that your Nutanix Cloud Cluster is susceptible to this inconsistent CPU microcode configuration. For details on the action, you can take to remediate, please refer to this Knowledge Base Article. If you have any questions or require assistance, please feel free to open a support ticket.   Anyway I planned on doing the  upgrade to the fixed version in the AHV 20230302

Network I/O control is a feature available since vSphere 4.1 with the Virtual Distributed Switch (VDS) which uses Network resource pools determine the bandwidth that different network traffic types are given. When network I/O control is enabled, distributed switch traffic is divided into Customer Network Resource pools and/or the following predefined network resource pools: Fault Tolerance traffic, iSCSI traffic, vMotion traffic, management traffic, vSphere Replication (VR) traffic, NFS traffic, and virtual machine traffic. From vSphere 5.0 onwards, you can also create custom network resource pools for virtual machine traffic. You can control the bandwidth each network resource pool is given by setting the physical adapter shares and host limit for each network resource pool. The physical adapter shares assigned to a network resource pool determine what share of the total available bandwidth will be guaranteed to the traffic associated with that networ

Enable or disable console support for a VM with only one vGPU configured. Enabling console support for a VM with multiple vGPUs is not supported. By default, console support for a VM with vGPUs is disabled.To enable or disable console support for each VM with vGPUs, do the following: Run the following aCLI command to check if console support is enabled or disabled for the VM with vGPUs.acli> vm.get vm-nameWhere vm-name is the name of the VM for which you want to check the console support status.The step result includes the following parameter for the specified VM:

Understanding and knowing where a Virtual Machine stores its vDisk is important for Admins. In our previous post we explored a couple of ways, we can use to find where Virtual Machine vDisks are stored on a AHV / AOS Cluster. Quick Recap:VM Disks (vDisks) are stored in a Container on AOS Cluster Acropolis service is responsible for all VM Operations Acropolis service offers a powerful interface called acli acli offers TAB Completion acli can be executed from any CVM in the cluster, for VM info operationsIn this post we will first find the vDisk of a given virtual machine and then use WinSCP to connect to the cluster and download the vDisk.Su

A customer would like to run Microsoft Windows Server DataCenter 2022 in an AHV environment and we are looking at licensing for this.  We want DataCenter cause of unlimited VM’s. We have recently heard that this has changed in the past year and only retail or perpetual licensing can run on Hyper-V and you can not run on AHV or Vmware anymore.  This is because it needs the host to communicate with some licensing portal.  So we have to purchase Open Value with SA for running AHV which is considerably more money and have to pay on a yearly subscription. They gave us this description. Windows Server 2022 Datacenter 2-Core License + SA (3 Yr)SKU: 9EA-00643Open Value with Software Assurance (3 Years)(3) 24-Core Hosts & Unlimited VMSNutanix HypervisorFulfilled with MAK/KMS LicenseDowngrade Rights to 2019 & 2016 Can anyone confirm this?If true this is crap and Microsoft is pushing t

I am using the New-NTNXVirtualMachine PowerShell cmdlet to create a VM on an AHV cluster.  Up until now, I haven’t included the “-BootConfig” option and it has defaulted to “BIOS”. Now I need to specify UEFI and Secure Boot for Boot Configuration.  AI gave me examples and information but it must be out-dated because the properties were not named correctly.  Or maybe my cmdlets are out-dated. It gave me this:$bootConfig = New-NutanixObject -Name BootConfig$bootConfig.uefi_boot = $true$bootConfig.secure_boot = $true$bootConfig.boot_device_order = @("kCdrom", "kDisk", "kNetwork")New-NTNXVirtualMachine -Name "MyUEFIVM" -MemoryMB 4096 -NumVCPUs 2 -BootConfig $bootConfig -Cluster "MyCluster"When I tried it, I found there were actually no underscores in the name.  But I did not find any reference to a property for “secureboot”.$boot

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

Hello Dears , I want to install nutanix on lenovo HX650 V3 storage IS , i am not sure that the hardware is preinstalled image or not .how can i know the servers that will came preinstalled or not ?can you explain the best way to foundation on lenovo servers ? 

Dear Nutanix team .We need to deploy Cisco Unified Communications Manager and UCCX by Cisco  on Nutanix AHV.Today, it is not possible to run Cisco CUCM and UCCX on Nutanix AHV while also being supported by Cisco.They shared ova file with us, But Cisco  requires VMWARE Esxi virtualization only.In this situation we have not any choice.Could you help us with this case? Maybe you can discuss this issue with Cisco and they will add some solution and support for Nutanix Platform.How can we use this solution by cisco on Nutanix ?

i have already seen this article, but have many questionshttps://next.nutanix.com/ahv-virtualization-27/is-there-a-way-to-export-prism-central-s-network-flow-data-42446?utm_source=chatgpt.comWhere is a comprehensive KB that explains the requirements, licen, PC components, services and feature that must be in place to enable an ipfix exporter. I am not talking about an extensive api configuration guide, i need the pre-requisites to create an ipfix exporter and the detailed steps to do so.for instance:1-enable microservices2-enable the adv network controller3-change vlan from basic to managed4-configure ipfix exporter through rest api v4 Please dont direct me to my account team for a PS engagement sell… this information should be pu

In our previous posts, we briefly explored some basics of vdisk management on AHV via Acropolis cli (acli). You can explore further namespaces in acli by logging on to any CVM and entering the acli shell.In some scenarios you may need to move disk from IDE to SCSI bus or vice versa. Sample scenarios including but not limited to:VM does not boot due to missing SCSI driver.  In such scenario disk can be converted to IDE to install missing driver and then move back to SCSI. Wrong disk type was used during VM creation. Disk index should be changed due to application requirements.From the AHV Best Practices Guide:Nutanix recommends using SCSI-based disks wherever possible for maximum performance. 

AHV hosts support GPU pass-through for guest VMs, allowing applications on VMs direct access to GPU resources. The Nutanix user interfaces provide a cluster-wide view of GPUs, allowing you to allocate any available GPU to a VM. You can also allocate multiple GPUs to a VM. However, in a pass-through configuration, only one VM can use a GPU at any given time. Host Selection Criteria for VMs with GPU Pass-Through When you power on a VM with GPU pass-through, the VM is started on the host that has the specified GPU, provided that the Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler determines that the host has sufficient resources to run the VM. If the specified GPU is available on more than one host, the Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler ensures that a host with sufficient resources is selected. If sufficient resources are not available on any