Hi,
Does Nutanix AHV allows to deploy VMDK (VMware) or VHDx (Hyper-V) file format VMs in nutanix cluster without converting it to a nutanix supported format?
VHDx file format VMs in nutanix cluster
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Userlevel 4
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Hi,
Yes,
- Use Image Configuration to upload the disk files and use clone from image service option while adding disk to VM
Note: for VMDK it should be flat.vmdk file
- Copy the files to container and use NDFS file option while adding disk to VM.
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Hi,
Thanks for the response.
How about vhd files? When i deploy new vm from vhd file it doesnt boot.
Userlevel 4
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Hi,
Same thing with vhd file as well.
The image service feature allows you to build a store of imported files that you can use to create a CD-ROM from an ISO image or an operating system disk from a disk image when creating a VM. The image service supports raw, VHD, VHDX, VMDK, VDI, OVA, ISO, and QCOW2 disk formats.
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Userlevel 6
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Hi,
Thanks for the response.
How about vhd files? When i deploy new vm from vhd file it doesnt boot.
The no boot could be due to bios/uefi mismatch. If the vhd(x)/vmdk is create on a bios virtual machine make sure the one on ahv is also bios (and the same goes for uefi)
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Hi,
After changing the boot configuration, the VM started to boot. For windows based VMs, we have to manually inject the drivers. Refer the link below.
https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000kAWeCAM
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