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Hi Team,Could you please help by sharing the documents/procedure for the below activities?Changing the Prism Central VM hostname. Migrating Prism Central VM disks from one container to another.Appreciate your support. Thanks.Shanmugavadivel Mahali

Hi,I’ve got a question about where a VM on AHV get’s it’s time at boot-up from.Background:  I was reviewing the event logs on a couple of windows servers, and looking at the bootup process.  Event times, start at UTC and then a bit through the boot-up it jumps an hour to GMT (Presumably when windows time starts, and syncs with the domain)  I’d prefer this not to happen, and would like the BIOS/Boot time to be GMT if possible. Does the VM “BIOS”boot time come from the CVM which I’ve found the process to change the timezone for, or the Host which the recommended configuration is to leave at UTC?Thanks in advance G

We are trying to configure the CVM hardening recommendation to enable SNMPv3 only.  The Nutanix Bible lists the command as:ncli cluster edit-cvm-security-params enable-snmpv3-only=[true|false] #Default:falseHowever, the AOS 7.5 version of the Security hardening guide doesn’t list the command and execution fails with an invalid command. How can we enable SNMPv3 only or verify that SNMPv2c is disabled?

X-Ray 6.2, trying to run the resiliency test on a 5 node cluster where 3 nodes are storage only. Is there way to configure the test to only move VMs between the 2 hyperconverged nodes?

Hi Team, We have Nutanix Prism central deployed with scale out option by having 3 PC instances in it. We would like to make it one instance instead of 3. Could you help with Nutanix articles that gives the steps to do do.

Hi Experts!We are planning a migration from an existing AHV cluster (AOS 6.x) to a new AHV cluster running AOS 7.5.1, and we need to migrate our Active Directory Domain Controllers.We are aware that the official Move documentation states that DC migration is "not recommended but can be performed with some limitations", and that AOS 6.7+ supports VM Generation ID to reduce USN rollback risks.We have a few questions :Has anyone successfully migrated Domain Controllers using Nutanix Move in an AHV-to-AHV scenario on AOS 6.7 or higher ?Did you experience any USN rollback, replication issues, or post-migration AD inconsistencies ?Any specific pre/post-migration checks you would recommend for this use case ?Constraint: We need to keep the same IP addresses for our DCs after migrationThanks in advance

Question is there a guide to implement firmware for DX servers Via the LCM

Anyone facing problem with Sizer today 05/19/26? When I access Sizer, I can't see my scenarios anymore. I saw in the past whe this occurs, was problem in Akamai, but I need to know when this will normalize.

I have a ticket open but there are long delays between responses and I’m wondering if anyone in the community has run into this issue.Trying to move a 2012R2 File Server and when running the manual preparation script, I get this failure on Installing VirtIO drivers.Failed to install VirtIO drivers. This would impact migrated VM's network connectivity in AHV cluster.Now, I have since just manually installed the VirtIO drivers and they install without issue.  However, I’d like to see the full preparation script finish successfully before I try a move.  I’m not sure why it’s even trying to install the drivers when they are already there, I would think they would just see them and move on.Has anyone one seen this one and gotten past it?

Last week I have completed a foundation of 6 HPE Proliant DL360 GEN12 server.This was not functioning like any other foundation in the past.I have encounterd 2 type of issues:ILO7 required HTTPS for the mount of the reuired ISO's ILO7 firmware was to low and therefor got some RESTAPI errors and the foundation failed.i have created a step by step bleg on how to fix those 2 steps (I think the first step already has been talked about here)details about these steps can be found here: https://thevirtualblueprint.com/nutanix-foundation-imaging-errors-on-hpe-proliant-gen12/ good luck 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 10-16, 2026.Support Portal login required:KB-20451 - NDB: Clone from the manual snapshot failed with the error code [VSS_E_NO_SNAPSHOTS_IMPORTED] KB-20861 - NCM : Nutanix Central (NC) and Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Connectivity with Prism Central (PC) is Broken After a Disaster Recovery (DR) Event KB-21141 - NDB - Oracle Software Profile Creation Fails with "Large payload received" KB-21307 - NKP: Node Provisioning fails stating all cloud-init services are not in

Hi I’m testing the Nutanix API v3 on a AOS 7.5 cluster through the prism central API. I came across the `https://ip_address:9440/api/nutanix/v3/users` endpoint that allows us to create a new user. However, I can’t see to find a way to create a user that’s not tied to any identity provider (local user).  Is there even such a thing? Or is it not supported through the API? Because I can’t see an attribute for that in the payload from the official documentation. I couldn’t find an endpoint for this functionality on other API versions, that’s why I’m using v3. Any help is much appreciated.

Hi all,I am sizing environments and really like to also add the correct licensing to the scenario and export the BOM to request this at the distribution. Unfortunately I have had it now the second time over the last months that licensing was not included correctly.This time I have a scenario with 10 VMs, 5TiB Objects and wanted NCI Edge Pro, NCM Edge Starter and 5 TiB NUS Pro with Adv. Replication. The BOM exported is listing the NCI-E Pro but in addition also Core based licensing. The 5 TiB NUS are missing also the Adv. Replication in the Excel and PDF BOM export.Anybody else with same findings or any thoughts on this?Sebastian

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 3-9, 2026.Support Portal login required:KB-20902 - NCM : Reclaiming Prism Central Resources After Migrating Intelligent Operations or Self-Service to a Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) Appliance KB-21005 - NCM : Handling Domain Drift in Restore Validation KB-21095 - NCM : Backup restore validation fails with "context deadline exceeded" KB-21478 - Investigation and Mitigation Guidance for CVE-2026-31431 on Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP)

Hi Colleagues,Recently, I’ve don AOS & AHV version upgrade for PE cluster (8 CVMs) which is hosted PC cluster with 3 PCVMs from AOS 6.10.1.7 to 7.3.1.2. PC version is 7.3.1.1.After upgrade, there is an issue of HTTP 420 code is happening and cannot proceed with VM migration cross clusters.Does anyone have the idea or experiences with this? Thanks.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of April 2026.KB-13150 - NCC Health Check: cfs_fatal_check KB-1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB-7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB-3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB-8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 26-May 2, 2026.Support Portal login required:KB-20906 - NCM : Duplicate Apps in Marketplace after NCM recovery KB-20909 - NCM : How to abort runbook executions and approval requests that are not progressing after an on-prem to NCM 2.0 migration KB-21090 - NCM : Pods experiencing CrashLoopBackOff due to unhealthy Postgres container in nc-pg pod KB-21094 - NCM : How to offboard a remote Prism Central account

Can default vswitch vs0 be renamed on a new AHV 7.5 cluster? The only VMs on the cluster are the controller VMs.

I am deploying a new AHV environment with 10 clusters. Each cluster will have the same subets/vlans. If I create these from Prism Central can I check the box next each cluster in the subnet creation screen so that each cluster gets the subnet?

What happened to the Four corners test in X-Ray? What is the equivalent new test?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 19-25, 2026.Support Portal login required:KB-20888 - NCM: Troubleshooting Receiver Rate Limit and PC Reachability Alerts KB-21051 - NCM : Upgrade Fails with Timeout Error KB-21127 - Rubrik Live Mount fails on Nutanix AHV with error ?Unable to create an external repository?. KB-21276 - Updating and Adding MetalLB Load Balancer Ranges in NKP KB-21335 -

We have a cluster that is not being used currently, and would like to run VMware/VSAN on it for testing some things. Is this doable? I am not worried it not supported as it is very temporary and Nutanix will be put back on it. I know ESXi is supported but you have to use CVM still to present the disk I think. So has anyone tried using Nutanix hardware (NX-1175S-G9) to run ESXi and more importantly VSAN natively? I know there are lots of variables here, especially disks being recognized, etc. 

Evening,I’ve created a cluster with four nodes using the Nutanix Community Edition. Does anyone have a quick cheat sheet on updating everything. This is my second go around, and the last time, everything updated, but Prism stopped responding even after I updated. Do I need to upgrade Prism First? what’s the difference between Prism that comes after the install and Prism Central?Any suggestions on steps to updating everything before I start creating Virtual Machines would be helpful.Thanks, James

Hi Folks,I have NX-8170-G10 configured with 1x 2port 10G copper, 2x 2port 25G Fibre NICs. I need to make the following configurations.1x 2 port Copper : Active-Backup e.g. br0-up1x 2 port Fibre : Active-Active (balanced-tcp) in LACP 1 e.g. br0-up11x 2 port Fibre : Active-Active (balanced-tcp) in LACP 2 e.g. br0-up2I have the followig questions.Do I need seperate Bridge for each uplink I used the following commands on AHV for creating the uplink, but I am getting warnings on Prism Element ovs-vsctl add-bond br0 br0-up2 eth4 eth5 ovs-vsctl set port br0-up2 other_config:lacp-fallback-ab=true ovs-vsctl set port br0-up2 other_config:lacp-time=fast ovs-vsctl set port br0-up2 bond_mode=balance-tcp ovs-vsctl set port br0-up2 lacp=active and the same commands for br0-up1

Hi everyone!Recently, a client challenged me to integrate their Nutanix clusters into their existing Prometheus and Grafana stack. While I’ve found solid integrations for Nutanix Objects and Kubernetes environments, the path to extracting granular metrics from Prism Element (PE) and Prism Central (PC) seems less straightforward for standard infrastructure.I’ve been reviewing the classic community post “MONITORING Part 3/4 Metrics and Prometheus and Grafana”, but since it’s now 5 years old, I suspect APIs and available exporters have evolved significantly.I’d love to hear from the community: Is anyone currently running this setup in modern production environments? Are you relying on third-party exporters (like Cloudflare’s) or leveraging API v3/v4 directly? In your opinion, have the latest Prism Central native APIs made Prometheus redundant for