AHV Virtualization

We have a couple of VG’s with 20’ish disks in each, on our 4 node AHV (AOS 6.10.1) cluster. 1 VG is shared with 2 SQL boxes in prd and the other with 2 SQL boxes in our pre environment.  I was patching the environment today with a BIOS update so the hosts needed to be restarted for the update to apply, I had a report from our DBA that they lost connection to the shared disks from the SQL boxes.  What is the expect behavior for VGs with shared disks when a host is unavailable due to a planned or unplanned outage? 

Hi All, I wanted to change VM UUID due to some technical reason, could you please help me for the same. Regards,Ratnakar

How to get Nutanix AHV software's(NOT CE) and trail licenses?

Trying to install latest version of AHV with Foundation (latest ) We get the below error 2025-03-21 07:03:27,122Z environment.py:542 INFO Registered new host with alias '10.8.12.31'2025-03-21 07:03:35,430Z dell_idrac9_redfish.py:209 INFO platform: 14G Monolithic2025-03-21 07:03:35,438Z remote_boot.py:295 INFO Selected tartarus remote boot implementation idrac9 via <Bound command## IDRAC9Redfish instance at 0x230e8e71fd0>2025-03-21 07:03:35,654Z cache_manager.py:133 DEBUG Cache MISS: key(get_md5sum_('C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Nutanix\\Portable Foundation\\tmp\\sessions\\20250321-123220-5\\phoenix_node_isos\\foundation.node_10.8.72.33.iso',)_{})2025-03-21 07:03:38,516Z dell_idrac9_redfish.py:209 INFO platform: 14G Monolithic2025-03-21 07:03:41,289Z dell_idrac9_redfish.py:396 INFO BIOS settings do not match expected values, updating configuration for {  "CorrEccSmi": "Disabled",  "IoatEngine": "Enabled",  "MemoryMappedIOH": "12TB",  "ProcX2Apic": "Enabled",  "SriovGlobalEnable": "Ena

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

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?

Can I please get the Community Roll. I am trying to get going on my Nutanix cluster and I get this error.   

Hi,I am confused by information in the prism central infrastructure guidePrism pc.2024.3.1 - Defining Behaviour for Non-migratable VMs (GPU/CPU/PCI/Host Affinity configured VMs)non_migratable_vm_action: By default, this parameter is set to block, which means the non-migratable VMs are shut down when you put a node into maintenance mode. For more information on non-migratable VMs, see Non-Migratable VMs.If you want to automatically shut down such VMs for the duration of the maintenance mode, set this parameter to acpi_shutdown.It seems both settings result in shutting down the VMs. Am I missing something, or is there an error in the documentation? I assumed block would prevent maintenance mode and keep the VMs running.Same information in the AHV guideAHV 10.0 - Putting a Node into Maintenance Mode using CLI 

Please help me here.I am unable to deploy the prism central. Prism Element is not compatible to enable Microservice Infrastructure: cmsp domain ltimindtree.com name already in use, Domain name must be atleast 3 sub domain long    

Team, Looking for Nutanix Partner Presentations download section, please share the right Location and URL to access the same.

I am considering building a cluster that will use a mix of TLC and QLC NVMe SSDs. I assume that Nutanix will put all of these drives into the SSD-PCIe storage tier and every disk will be a member of the same tier. Since QLC SSDs have lower performance and lower write endurance than their TLC, MLC, and SLC counterparts, it would be advantageous to use storage tiering to encourage cold data to reside on the QLC media and hotter data to reside on the more performant drives. Is there a supported method for this in non-community edition clusters? It would be relatively straightforward to manually change the tier-name for the QLC drives to SSD-SATA, but is that a supported practice?

Hi everyone,anyone face issue, when they run nutanix collector to gather data of PC or PE, but when we open the excel file. we got required data except VM IP details.can anyone resolve this or have any solution to this. without VM IP details, collector is not worth. Please share thought about it.

I have 4 x dell m540 blade servers, running in a VRTX chassis, and would like to install nutanix, I have tried the latest edition and it bombs out with fatal errors before I even get to the installer, does anyone have the legacy isos so I can try this or any ideas why ?, I have even disabled the shared storage and it still bombs out 

I'm Korean. English can be a little awkward. I created a communication edition on my virtual device and accessed Prism. But the next day, I deleted the virtual device and tried to access Prism by creating another virtual device again, but I couldn't connect.

Hello, I'm not able to deploy prism central. I have this error: Encountered Exception in post_deployment step: Failed to enable micro services infrastructure on PC: Failed to deploy base service: Max retries done Kind regards

Hello, I'm not able to deploy prism central. I have this error: Encountered Exception in post_deployment step: Failed to enable micro services infrastructure on PC: Failed to deploy base service: Max retries doneand on log file deployment in the pc.[ERROR] [20250305 04:30:19.110551] [623473] [utils.go:192](GetServiceIPAndPortUsingMSPServiceDiscovery) error retrieving ergon task status for PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment with the error error retrieving task list payload for component type [infra] and operation type [PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment] [ERROR] [20250305 04:30:19.110568] [623473] [svcmgr_configure.go:51](Configure) error retrieving task list payload for component type [infra] and operation type [PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment] [ERROR] [20250305 04:30:19.110599] [623473] [main.go:59](main) error retrieving task list payload for component type [infra] and operation type [PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment] [INFO ] [20250305 04:30:20.458489

Hey Nutants, Iam back with the complicated question once again, iam sure this is not straight forward question and not easy to resolve without support, however let me see if I can get any support from this panel.I have started a migration of a vms through a AsyncPD as my AOS version is 6.5.5.5 and cannot do a cross cluster vm migration to with out a PD, this PD has completed its replication 98% and got stuck for 24 hours now.I have attempted multiple times to abort the migration but with no success, please see the screenshot below.Note: I dont want to complete the migration anymore.Followed below links already.https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA0320000004H2XCAUhttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA0600000008eOHCAYkindly dont tell me to contact Nutanix support as I dont have an active license. :) Thanks in advance. 

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

Issue: I can’t get UEFI to work with VMs at all.CE version of AHV  on Dell 4 year old hardware - AHV and CVM operational and appear fine.VMs appear to be OK as long as it’s using legacy bios. I can’t get UEFI to boot, black screen of X/f2.I was going to attempt a workaround: Install using legacy and convert to UEFI but I can’t get into the VM bios?  Tried F2, DEL, F12 … every F out there and it goes straight to windows.Does anyone have a recommendation? I can take screenshots if that helps 

Node expantion with NVMe drives and newer AOS/AHV on the new node? What is the file to update that updates the cluster to recognize the new hardware models. Bascially having to downgrade a factory G9 node on an older cluster. When you run foundation it doesn’t recognize the newer hardware and errors out.

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 ? 

We have upgrade a old cluster from AHV 6.5.6.6 to 6.5.6.7 but one node are’nt upgrade. And I can perfom the upgrade by web. Is it possible to upgrade one node by cli ? Moreover can upgrade to the ahv 7 ? Kind regards

Hi All,   I would like to setup trial version/community edition of Nutanix virtualization environment. Once we tested fine, we will approach sales team for further movementI have observed the below link. But it was 4 years old one. Download Community Edition | Nutanix Community  If i download the iso from above mentioned link, will it be possible for me to setup the AHV virtualization environment?

Created User in Prism element .Tried Logging in getting error ( The username or password you entered is incorrect. Please try again.) we tried with standrad command ncli user reset-password user-name=xxxxx password=yyyyy still we could not able to change as well not able to login. please let us know solution thanks for the support 

AHV installation is failing for Cisco C m6sx server , failing at 71% percentage  log is below 2025-02-24 12:05:58,524Z imaging_step.py:164 ERROR Exception in running <InstallHypervisorKVM(<NodeConfig(10.96.96.111) @9e80>) @8970>Traceback (most recent call last):  File "foundation/imaging_step.py", line 160, in _run  File "foundation/imaging_step_hypervisor.py", line 53, in run  File "foundation/imaging_step.py", line 346, in wait_for_event  File "foundation/config_manager.py", line 351, in wait_for_eventfoundation.config_manager.EventTimeoutException: Timeout (900s) in waiting for events ['Installing AHV', 'fatal']2025-02-24 12:05:58,541Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <InstallHypervisorKVM(<NodeConfig(10.96.96.111) @9e80>) @8970> from RUNNING to FAILED2025-02-24 12:05:58,955Z log.py:102 INFO installer_vm.py:184 [600/2430] Hypervisor installation in progress2025-02-24 12:06:28,976Z log.py:102 INFO installer_vm.py:184 [630/2430] Hypervisor installatio