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Hey, We're in the process of getting an exchange server virtualized and according to Nutanix best practice, we should create a container with EC-X enabled. When I go to create the container in the PRISM gui, there's no option to enable erasure coding. This contradicts documentation where it shows the option under "advanced options" but on my end, it's not appearing.
We had an issue when the cluster was first setup which involved the hdd. These were moved and replaced and now we see an error reported. It was initially cleared and now resurfaced, this despite a AHV update from 4.6.2 to 4.6.3 and also update on NCC to 2.6.6 Error Detailed information for disk_online_check:Node 192.168.xx.x4:FAIL: Disk '/home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/S460AATC' failed on node with ip u'192.168.xx.x3'. Disk '/home/nutanix/data/stargate-storage/disks/S460AATC' failed on node with ip u'192.168.xx.x4'.Refer to KB 1536 for details on disk_online_check or Recheck with: ncc health_checks hardware_checks disk_checks disk_online_check smartctl on the hdd shows no errors There seems tio be an issue with retaining or updating info/config on the cluster nodes
Hi, I apologize in advance for the long post !!!! From the information I've reviewed, the Xpress Models (I'm looking at Lenovo's offering) will support a maximum of 4 nodes. In addition there is no Protection Domain. Let's pretend that I'm a cloud provider for multiple customers, and I host their (Domain/File/Print/Email/Sql) servers in my 4 node domain. I want to use an (Acronis/Storagecraft) in VM backup software. These products store their backup images to a NAS/Share. If I setup a second 3 node Xpress Model that is storage "heavy" running Acropolis File Services, as a NAS/Share destination for my backup images, is there any restriction that you can think of that would prevent/limit me from doing this ? Right now we use StorageCraft and save to a Windows Storage NAS that has RAID 10 and I'm concerned that writing to will not be able to handle the I/O? I'm guessing that the 3 node Xpress AFS will easily handle intensive I/O writes. On weekends, the Full backup runs a
https://next.nutanix.com/t5/Installation-Configuration/basic-capacity-calculate-and-RF-question/m-p/10728/highlight/true#M1314 Hi All, referring to the above thread - where Jon is mentioning http://designbrewz.com/ for capacity calculation. does this calculator takes into account Replication factors and the "Extent Store HDD" is what the user will see when configuring storage pool > container ? thank you in advance kind regards
Need details how to store passwords as a secure string and use in a script for access to multiple Prism sites. I have a script to collect storage data from multiple Nutanix sites via Prism. Now I need to remove the plain text passwords. I have located references but only find "NOTE: for security reasons we should store our passwords as a secure string, by declaring these as variables before starting PowerShell." Can anyone provide the steps required to make this work?
All, For those using Palo Alto VMs and AHV please be aware that there is a major bug when upgrading to PANOS 7.1.3 that will corrupt the firewall interfaces randomly and so far there is no fix for it, not even downgrading back to previous versions, in my case was PANOS 7.0.5h2. I am currently working with Palo Alto engineering into fixing the issue, I will update once the case is resolved. For the time being I would highly recommend to stay away from the 7.1 series of upgrades. Regads Juan
Hi, I'm doing a PoC for a client, and I can't browse to Prism with 1 of the CVM IP address. The rest are OK. The cluster is up and running with no error. seems the httpd service unable to start. how do i fix this? below is the error snapshot. Please help. Thanks in advance.
Hi folks, Do you guys have ever think about the question. I read some guides and confused now. 1) node memory number: It seems every type of node has different supported memory number configuration: For NX-1064-G4, It shows only support 16x dimm ! What happens if I install any number， i.g 1, 2, 3,4,5,6 or any number 2) node memory installed slot location: It also says there`s an fixed slot order for different number dimm scenario. what happens if I install dimm not according to the guide ? 3) memory type: LR or R DIMM it also says there`s two type dimm, How to confirm which type is supported by specific type of node ? P.S my environment I have a node NX-1065-G4 with default 64g(4x16g installed in 1a,1b,1e,1f) and now I add two additional 16g dimm into slot 1g,1h. It work fine till now. but my memory number confuration is not supported by the guide ! the guide says NX-1065-G4 only support full slot (16x) dimm configuration ! so the guide has no tips about the slot order too while numb
Hi, Does anyone have a step-by-step guide on creating a Windows cluster on ESX on Nutanix? I've seen various examples online of using ISCI, SMB etc file shares but I'm not entirely sure on what to do. I've got the cluster as far as the file share witness working but how do I then configure the disks that make up the cluster resources? I will eventually be clustering SQL 2012 on this. Cheers, Steve
I occasionally get errors on network validation when using the offline Foundation installer. Usually this is resolved by trying another range- occasinally not. I never have this issue when using the standalone version of Foundation. I am using a completely flat switch (which has had many successful installs), additionally this is with Foundation 3.2.2 and Java 7.45. I can log into the hosts/cvms and get successful pings from all of the IP's I'm intending on using but offline Foundation is adamant that some are unreachable. I solve this by using standalone (which can be a little cumbersome on the road). Just wondering if anyone else is experiencing this as well.
Hi everyone, I imaged a nutanix cluster these days, and found strange phenomena. I found many error key words in foundation node log, but imaging showed successful finally. I clicked "retry imaging failed nodes with last config" many times, after some node failed, and it succeed. I`d like to know why it failed and succeed after just retry. also the foundation process tab showed 3 node failed at 78%, and the node log showed it`s finished ! and after retry, it`s 100%. I`m very worried about if it`s truly successful and there`s potential risks. p.s my environment: Foundation 3.1.1, AOS 4.6.1, ESXI5.5U3D，NX-1065-G4
Hello Folks, NX-1065 has only two 10G port, and two 1G port. and I have only one pair of 10G switch, and one pair of 1G switch. In my opinion, I`d like to make ESXI port(mgmt, vmotion,nfs vmkernel), and CVM port(prism mgmt, cluster mirror ) run on 10G switch, and configure 10g switch uplink to other network which I can connect to ESXI MGMT and prism. make vm data port connect to separate 1g vswitch. but network guy told me the 10g switch can`t uplink to externel network, so I`d like to know Can I move the ESXI port (mgmt) and CVM mgmt(VIP) to 1G vswtich， and create addtional vmotion,nfs kernel port connected to 10G vswtich, also leave CVM cluster mirror interface connected to 10G vswtich. networking design is the key things.
Hi guys， two basic questions: 1)can cvm cluster and ESXI data use the same 10g switch with no performance penelty ? (I have only one pair of 10g switch, and NX1065 one dual port card. As we know, cvm cluster must use 10g network, but I`d like also to use 10g for ESXI data network. ) 2) generally ESXI mgmt(usually,vmkernel port for NFS access) is on the same 10g link with cvm cluster(also CVM prism mgmt), If the user`d like to have a separate uplink or subnet for ESXI MGMT, is it ok ? I`m worried about the performance problem. thanks in advance !
Hi, We have 3 Hyper-V hosts those local admin passwords got expired and i changed them (and they are enabled). Now WSMan Connectivity Check fails in Prism. I have run these lines in CVM for all three hosts but it won't help: ncli managementserver edit name=hostIP password='newhostpass'ncli host edit id=cryptical-host-id hypervisor-password='newhostpass' Any ideas? Our nutanix version is 4.6.1.1.
Hi Folks, For Nutanix product, Is it a best practice to have the latest software version (e.g AOS,NCC) installed, No matter first-time installation, or upgrade. Some venders may advise just install the slightly lower version then the newest. My real user case: we installed NX 2 months ago, and plan to put it into produciton these days, but two new AOS version has been available on Portal.nutanix.com, So Can I update AOS to the newest one ?
One of the CVM is not responding. On console below screen shots are there. What is the soln?
