Calm

Application Lifecycle Management and Cloud Orchestration

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aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Cloud Native and Calm: Better Together! Part II

Previously we covered importing a Calm Blueprint into your own environment, modifying the necessary fields to customize it, and then deploying a fully functional Nutanix Cloud Native application with Nutanix Calm. Today we’re diving into the architecture of the blueprint. EraNutanix Era is a databa...

aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Cloud Native and Calm: Better Together!

Previously we covered how easy it is for developers and administrators to deploy an application onto Nutanix Cloud Native due to its adherence to open API standards. We deployed an Oscar e-commerce site, backing it with containers running on Nutanix Karbon, a PostgreSQL database cloned by Nutanix Er...

Pawan_sahu Voyager

Get virtual machine UUID based on VM name

Question

Is there any API to get VM UUID given VM name or any work around to get that? Is it possible to delete a VM given only VM name with API? Thanks in advance. Regards, Pawan

calm_mark Nutanix Employee

Nutanix Calm is coming to Prism Central CE!

Hello Next Community! The new release of Nutanix Community Edition (CE) is coming soon and it will include Prism Central CE with Calm automation. Prism Central is Nutanix's multi-cluster control plane, it can control and monitor each Prism Element cluster; therefore for CE, only itself. As describ...

JannikWalther Wayfarer

Calm Project: Getting SYS_FAILURE everytime

Question

Hi! I have a problem. When I try to create, delete or do a other action I always get the SYS_FAILURE but the Tasks goes through and work perfectly. After that I try to delete the action that was created but there I get again the SYS_FAILURE I work with VMware. There I cant find an error the VMs a...

manfred Trailblazer

Calm Blueprint Deployment - error on login

Maybe it is helpful for some others: when I'm deploying a preseeded blueprint I face the issue that the default timeout for the "check login" is too low; the result is that the application deployment throws an error: "script execution has failed with error Client cannot connect to the destination s...

aluciani Community Manager

Calm in Action: Marketplace Clone for vCenter Video

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through modifying a Nutanix Marketplace blueprint to be used with VMware. https://youtu.be/G0-c_iGWGVE

aluciani Community Manager

Calm in Action: VMware CentOS Template Video

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through setting up a VMware CentOS Template to be used with Calm. https://youtu.be/98XtgWyAXLg

aluciani Community Manager

Calm in Action: VMware Initial Setup Video

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through adding VMware vCenter as a cloud provider to be utilized with Calm. https://youtu.be/tudDYQTpmgA

guif Pathfinder

Error when install an Application Blueprint

Question

Hi Everyone, Using CALM, I start a VM but can install an Apache (yum install httpd) via script. I see the error: "script execution has failed with error Domain name not found" My template is a CentOS without a domain. What's the exactly error?

readuni1 Trailblazer

Calm Macros in Blueprint variables

Question

Hi When a blueprint creates an appliction the values of the variables are displayed on the overview page of the application. However if the variables contain calm macros, for example @ @{address}@@ then that text is display and not the value of the macro. I have a blueprint which creates a web ser...

aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Calm – Creating Your First Citrix Blueprint

Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) David Brett wrote a great blog on building your first Nutanix blueprint. It's super detailed and I thought I would share in hopes that it would inspire you to try it out. Nutanix Calm – Creating Your First Citrix Blueprint You can download Nutanix Community Editi...

readuni1 Trailblazer

Self Destruct Calm App

Question

Hi I have a calm blue print which the user can use to create an app which does some processing depending on the value of variables specified by the user and stores the result in persistent storage. But then the user has to remeber to delete the application. Is there any way to get the blue print t...

weiyi Adventurer

Does Apps management (Calm) support ESXi in PrismCentral 5.8?

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I deployed a Nutanix Cluster (AOS version 5.8) with ESXi 6.5. And I deployed a Prism Central 5.8 on it. There're some articles on internet, saying App Management supports ESXi, starting from PrismCentral version 5.7. Is it true? In my case, I can't find Self Service & Apps from the pull-down list,...

chheda Nutanix Employee

New video on Containerized app deployment -- Kubernetes with Calm

David Keefe from Nutanix Services has created another excellent video showing how to deploy K8s on Nutanix using the sample blueprint published to the Calm Marketplace. The video also shows how to create a Calm blueprint for a custom containerized application deployed on the K8s cluster. Lastly, it...

echolaughmk Trailblazer

Windows Authentication Setup with CALM

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Hello, I'm curious if anyone else has had issue getting Windows authentication with WS-man setup within CALM for the Login Check and remote execution of scripts. I have followed the docs and redone the setup a few times for validation, but the login check still fails with a vague error that just s...

JoeLemaire Adventurer

Passing a variable through to cloud-init script in Calm?

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I know in Calm you can create variables in the service, and then use those variables throughout the config using @@{service.variable}@@. However, it doesn't seem like you can use those in cloud-init scripts. I'd like to be able to pass a variable that the user sets at the time of deployment (the I...

echolaughmk Trailblazer

How-To make an AHV VM into Prism Central Image

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Using CALM, it seems the best way to deploy VMs is from a VM image that you add to the Image Configuration store. However, when using Prism Central, it doesn't seem this is possible with ACLI to create an image from an AHV VM. How are people taking an AHV VM in PC inventory and making an image o...

PauloVito Trailblazer

Select the taget container in a Blueprint

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Hi Everyone, The application blueprint in calm I can select a VM templates from image service but when I going to make deploy I can't choose container target and My VMs are create in image container. Thanks,

chheda Nutanix Employee

Videos on deploying apps with Calm

Nutanix DevOps Solutions architect, Andy Schmid has been creating videos on deploying different applications from Calm. Here are ones on SQL Server 2014 and InfoBlox IPAM and I believe has more coming. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T5WeZ3Pl15A https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MSay17ZcxxQ Worth...

aluciani Community Manager

Installing Nutanix Calm and Launching Apps from the Marketplace

Calm orchestrates the provisioning, scaling and management of applications across multiple environments, making the entire IT infrastructure more agile and application centric. In this first video of a new series about how to use Nutanix Calm, Michael Haigh shows you how to install Calm and launch a...

aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Calm Blueprint Using Existing vRO Integrations

Nutanix recently announced the release of Nutanix Calm, an application orchestration and lifecycle management product in the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform. In this demo, we show you how a custom application blueprint created in vRealize Automation (vRA) can be reproduced on Nutanix Calm. Here,...

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