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Provisioning and Orchestration Across Multicloud

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Announcing Calm SaaS General Availability

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Calm Cookbook: Using Postman to Import a Blueprint

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Calm in Action: Single VM on Public Clouds - Video

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Phianne CalistaExplorer
asked in Self-Service
Nutanix Calm DSL version requirements

Hi, I am interested in using Nutanix Calm DSL to automate certain Calm tasks, specifically updating our existing applications to use python3 escripts instead of python2. I noticed that the docker tags for DSL only run from v3.7.0. May I know if there is a minimum version of Nutanix Calm that DSL needs to run on? We are using Calm v3.5.2 at the moment and I don’t have an environment with a later version to try out DSL. Thanks.

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Nutanix Employee
2 months ago
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AvicoAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
Cannot use dynamic vars with credentials in runbooks after being published to marketplace

Hi guys,New runbook.I’ve added a variable with escript that gets a list from DB (using a credential object to connect to the DB)Very simple and straightforwardwhen executing the runbook the variable populates the list and everything is working fine.Unfortunately, after publishing it to the marketplace (with the ‘Publish with secrets’ on) it will give this error upon execution:Warning: These variables cannot be resolved: DBUser.username, DBUser.secretI really can’t understand why it isn’t workingDid someone encounter this behavior? what was your solution?Thanks!

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3 months ago
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GiuseppePinoAdventurer
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Replace calm vm 3.7.2.2

Hi,I upgraded Calm vm from 3.7.2.1 to 3.7.2.2 but now I read from release notes of calm vm 3.8 that isn’t possible to upgrade from 3.7.2.2 to 3.8.How can I safetely remove calm vm 3.7.2.2 and reinstall the version 3.8?Thanks Regards

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Nutanix Employee
3 months ago
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GiuseppePinoAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
Unable to delete apps

Hi,I used calm vm 3.7.2.2, it worked fine for a couple of days but now I receive error when deploy a blueprint and also when I tried to delete or soft delete the existing one.Nothing logged.  

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4 months ago
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GauravPandviaNutanix Employee
posted in Self-Service
Announcing NCM Self-Service (Calm) DSL Tech Documentation

We're thrilled to announce the release of the new technical documentation for Nutanix Self-Service DSL on nutanix dev website ! Check it out now and start automating your infrastructure like a pro!LinkDSL is our Python-based Infrastructure as Code utility, designed to simplify and streamline application deployments and orchestration through Nutanix Self-Service. With this comprehensive documentation, you can now:🚀 Automate application deployments with ease ⚙️ Orchestrate complex workflows efficiently 📚 Access detailed guides and examples to maximize your productivityWhether you're a developer, DevOps engineer, or IT admin, this documentation is tailored to help you leverage the full potential of Nutanix Self-Service DSL to help you automate your infrastructure with more ease. Drop a comment below if you have further queries on DSL.

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Nutanix Employee
4 months ago
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Nutanix Employee
chhedaNutanix Employee
posted in Self-Service
Session Recommendations for Service Providers at .NEXT 2024 Barcelona

 Our .NEXT Conference Barcelona is a month away. Our teams are excited to host thousands of partners and customers including our service providers and system integrator partners. We are also thrilled to have a Service Provider Pavilion with Nutanix Elevate SP partners -- Adista, Atlas Cloud Services, OVHCloud, and Systematika. I wanted to share sessions that I believe are relevant for Service Providers and System Integrators attending the show.May 21 -- Tuesday 09:00 – 09:45 -- Unlocking the Potential of Nutanix Prism: A Blueprint for Efficiency and Scale10:00 – 10:45 -- Practical Considerations for Reducing Risk in Light of the Broadcom Acquisition11:00 – 11:45 -- Build a Profitable Managed and Cloud Service Provider Business with Nutanix15:30 – 17:00 -- Elevating Nutanix Cloud-Native Portfolio: Our New Cloud-Native Products16:30 – 17:15 -- Driving profitability with Nutanix Portfolio, Solutions, and Building Value Added ServicesMay 22 -- Wednesday11:15 – 11:45 -- Beating Your Competi

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Nutanix Employee
6 months ago
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nivlevTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
PlayBook - Cluster stop

Hello everyone,We are looking for an automated and organized way to stop all machines and servers in the cluster.Can anyone help me create a playbook that will perform the following actions:Shutdown all machines in the cluster.Shutdown 3 CVMs - after ensuring that all machines in the cluster are shutdown.Stop the cluster - cluster stop.Shutdown the hosts.And is it possible to perform the reverse action? To start the cluster.Thank you very much.

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6 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
How can I Protect/Prevent a VM from deletion in CALM/Self Service?

I am looking for a way to protect the VMs that I’ve stood in as Applications in Calm/Self Service from accidental deletion (mostly by me). I don’t see a way to do this in any areas of Prism or Calm, and I don’t see anything in the Policy Manager docs that would address it, either. Is there any kind of pattern or feature for this? Thanks

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mcascone
7 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Passing cpu/ram/disk runtime vars via Jenkins calm plugin

I initially developed a Jenkins pipeline to launch Calm blueprints using the raw API, which works, but i hadn’t yet figured out how to pass runtime params to it.It was then that i found the Jenkins plugin, which simplifies the process significantly. It is easy to pass values to the app variables that are exposed in the blueprint. What i don’t see is the ability to pass runtime-editable fields. For example, i can set an App Variable for a user-supplied value, via the plugin. But I don’t see a way to set, for example, the `vCPUs` field that I have marked as a runtime field.It is available to set when launching the Blueprint via the Prism UI, but is it possible to set these fields using the Jenkins Plugin?PS: i am also unclear how to set params via the raw API, but i’ll ask that in a separate topic.

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mcascone
7 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
CALM blueprint editor - user-modifiable field setting does't stick

When setting up my blueprints, i want to lock down most of the configuration to prevent user error. I basically only want a user to be able to adjust the cores, RAM, and size of the data disk. So, i’m clicking the running-person icons to set them to black, meaning not-user-changeable. However, when i Save the change, it goes back to blue. I can’t get the user modifiable/not-modifiable config to stick. Am i missing something here? Thanks!

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mcascone
7 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Can I create a lease or timeout on an Application or VM?

Back in my VMware vRA days, we could set VMs to expire and delete themselves after a set period of time, called a Lease. This prevented test VMs lasting too long and using up resources unnecessarily. The default was seven days, and it could be extended or set as desired by the users if a VM was needed for longer. Is there a way to configure a similar mechanism in CALM/Self Service?

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Moustafa Hindawi
7 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
How to use Variable Types from the library?

I would like to create variables that are reusable in blueprints - things like package store URI, proxy URL, etc. I don’t think it makes sense to define these in every blueprint, as they’re identical; we want to keep that kind of thing DRY.The docs state that Variable Types defined in the Library are reusable across blueprints. But if I define MY_VAR as a new Variable Type with a value, it has no value when expanded in a blueprint script as @@{MY_VAR}@@. What is the trick to defining these vars at the Library level and using them in Blueprints? Thanks!

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mcascone
7 months ago
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Martin EdeliusTrendsetter
asked in Self-Service
How do I launch a blueprint with a project reference?

Hi all!I’m guessing I’m missing something obvious here, but I can’t figure it out so I’m hoping that the community can give me a helping hand. :)I want to launch a blueprint using the /blueprints/{uuid}/launch API call as the “simple launch” call doesn’t do what I want. I want to automatically associate the new application with a project and as far as I can tell I have to use the “normal launch” for that.I grabbed the exact payload that Prism Central/Calm sends and have spent half a day trying to clean it up so that I can re-use it, but this is where I get nowhere. If I remove too much, I get an error directly from the API but most of the time I can submit the request without errors.Compounding the issue is that there is nothing showing in the Tasks-indicator in Prism Central, not even an error or a warning, after I sent in the call - there is simply no trace at all of the task I just created.If I check the pending launch details with the /blueprints/{uuid}/pending_launches/{launched_u

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mcascone
8 months ago
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Martin EdeliusTrendsetter
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Where can I find the UUID of a single-VM blueprint app profile?

Hi all.I have a single-VM blueprint that I want to launch using the “Launch blueprint” API call. The schema for this call requires that I specify an app profile UUID but no matter where I look, I can’t find any reference to this UUID, neither in the UI nor via API calls.To be fair, I haven’t gone through every single API call so there might still be one that eludes me.How do I know what app profile UUID to include in my payload when using the “Launch blueprint” API call?Thanks!

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mcascone
8 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
app_blueprint_template error when deleting images

This question has been asked a few times on this forum but has never been fully answered.When i try to delete a disk image, I get an error:Attribute _app_blueprint_template not set I can not find any mention of this attribute anywhere, and I can’t find any other way to delete the image. I tried the API method from this post but it has the same result.What’s the trick here?  

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mcascone
8 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Basic Patterns for creating base images from vms

I have been relatively successful using a blueprint to define all the tasks and installations to create a solid VM. I now want to bake this VM into an image, so it has all those tasks already performed on it. I tried creating a VM template, but when i launch an instance from it, it has no Dynamic IP assigned. What is, or can someone point me to, the best practice/standard pattern for building a catalog of images with various apps and tasks pre-baked-in, so we don’t have to apply their installation every time?thanks!

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mcascone
8 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Disks in Catalog Items not showing in Blueprints

I want to build a blueprint that provisions a CentOS8 VM. I have added a CentOS8 disk to the Catalog Items list in Prism Central. When I go to build/edit my blueprints in Calm/Self Service, the disk does not show up as an option in the Disks configuration field. How do i enable a disk image from the Catalog Items to be available in Calm blueprints?Thanks!

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
9 months ago
mcascone
mcasconeTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
TLS Handshake failure on Check Login step

Or, “How does the ‘Check Login’ step actually work?”I consistently get a TLS error on any attempt to connect to the new VM from CALM. Every time. This is a blocker for me, as I can’t do much to the VMs during provisioning without this connectivity, and I can’t/shouldn’t do everything in the cloud-init step.  I am able to ssh into the new VMs successfully using the same credentials, so I know that the credential is correct, but I don’t think the credential is the issue - the error is happening before the system tries to use it. The screenshots below are from two different blueprint deployments.Script execution has failed with error: tls: first record does not look like a tls handshake.Could not connect to the service running at 1.2.3.4.From a higher level, how does CALM initiate the connection to the new VM when starting the “check login” step? The TLS handshake issue implies a mismatch of HTTP/S protocols, and/or mismatched TLS 1.1/1.2/etc versions. But this is supposed to be an SSH co

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
9 months ago
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AshwaraExplorer
asked in Self-Service
update endpoints

While making a rest call to update an endpoint, I am getting below error.{    "api_version": "3.1",    "code": 500,    "message_list": [        {            "details": {},            "message": "uuid",            "reason": "INTERNAL_ERROR"        }    ],    "state": "ERROR"}Steps performed:Make a get call to the resource UUID Remove the status key blog from the body received from step 1 update the value key with new IP update the spec_version from current set of 0 to 1 use this updated body to make PUT call to the resource UUID

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10 months ago
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AvicoAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
How to verify a variable input before runbook execution

Hi,My challenge is to verify a user’s input before she clicks ‘execute’ For example: I’ve created a variable named MyNumber with Data type = integerI want to verify that the provided value should not be higher than 3Using input type as Escript, I’ve tried:if @@{MyNumber}@@ > 3:    print(3)But when executing the runbook I get the warning that I have a cyclic dependency and the input is not available.Is there a way to achieve this input verification?Thanks

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10 months ago
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nivlevTrailblazer
asked in Self-Service
Add Vm's to category based on VLAN

Hello We want to create an automation that any new VM based on its subnet (Vlan) will be automatically added to category.(I have tried to use a playbook, but it's not working.)How can we do that?Thank you

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
10 months ago
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DC000Adventurer
asked in Self-Service
Nutanix Updates query

Hi,  I have 2 cluster and are planning to update the hypervisor and VM.1 cluster with 4 Dell nodes with Hyper V server 2019 Hypervisor and multiple VM with Window server and ubuntuanother cluster with 4 Dell nodes VMware Hypervisor and multiple of Window server ubuntu VM too. I have downloaded the LCM bundle package for Dell and the LCM packages and publish it onto the Dark web IIS server. However I can only see the Hardware build and the manifest.Where do I download the software build? Does the Software build package include the AOS and the Hypervisor?  Where does the Hypervisor package include? Hypervisor version ? If it is hypervisor version, does it means update the vulnerability or upgrade the version? Does the package include the monthly Microsoft vulnerability patches for window or SQL? What is the procedure or steps to do the entire updates? I do know the that hardware is the last Update Guest OS, node OS or update AOS first? Is there any available checklist that I need to d

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sl.farhanparkar
11 months ago
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AvicoAdventurer
asked in Self-Service
How to use a secret variable passed from another task

HiIn task 1 I'm setting a variable with print(“test,secret=john”)How can I use the content of test variable (John) in task 2?Trying to use @@{test}@@ as a string will only return xxxx (the mask but not the content)Thanks,Avi

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1 year ago
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Phianne CalistaExplorer
asked in Self-Service
Nutanix Calm API request returns incorrect task UUID

I am currently using Nutanix Calm API v3. After creating a crash-consistent VM recovery point using the POST endpoint /api/nutanix/v3/mh_vms/{vm_uuid}/snapshot and verifying that it exists on Prism Central, I attempted to revert the VM to this recovery point using the POST endpoint /api/nutanix/v3/mh_vms/{vm_uuid}/revert using the recovery point uuid in req body. The response has 200 status code but the task reference returned has task_uuid value of ‘something’. I also cannot see any alerts on PC indicating that the VM revert task has been attempted. May I know if anyone has experienced this issue before and how I might rectify this issue? Im not sure how to proceed since the API request appears to be successful. In particular, I would like to understand the circumstances under which Calm API returns tasks with uuid value of ‘something’. Thanks!

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1 year ago
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Phianne CalistaExplorer
asked in Self-Service
Cannot revert VM from recovery point on Prism Central

I have attempted to create a VM recovery point on Prism Central and revert it from the recovery point. However, I am getting an info-level message that the recovery point is degraded and that the recovery Point for VM failed to capture associated policies and categories because the network name is not available for the VM.The VM revert task also does not seem to have been executed as there is no event confirming success. The VM is created from a blueprint that is part of a project with a configured VPC, and I have already verified that there are no issues in connection between PC and PE. May I know possible reasons for why this is happinening and how I might resolve this? I have consulted the link https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CyDeCAK but it seems to be targeted at VMs running on ESXi, our VMs run on AOS/AHV. Thanks!

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sl.farhanparkar
1 year ago

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