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Yesterday our Nutanix CE cluster suffered a node loss (onboard NIC went offline somehow, investigating), HA failover performed correctly, but I had Zabbix monitoring cluster API 2.0 which did not state there is a problem. The only difference was that the host stopped being visible in the discovery by its proper name and remained only by IP, every other reading were "normal" and "not degraded" and even cluster state was reported "normal" during host effective downtime. WTF?! Also, WTF is with re-posting a question to another forums when asked to? Do you maybe have crosslinks allowed to ask the same question in a different subset of forums?

I tryed to run xtract but I'm facing a problem to install the VirtIO tools. Using the automatic script on xtract it's end with the error: "ExitCode: '1603'". If I try to install VirtIO manually the show this message "ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified". Creating a verbose log file, from the installation, I see some errors like this: MSI (c) (08:18) [22:06:00:591]: Package to be registered: 'Nutanix-VirtIO-1.1.3.msi' MSI (c) (08:18) [22:06:00:591]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (c) (08:18) [22:06:00:591]: Note: 1: 2262 2: AdminProperties 3: -2147287038 or Action start 22:06:00: PrepareDlg. MSI (c) (08:50) [22:06:00:623]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (c) (08:50) [22:06:00:623]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 2898 Info 2898.For WixUI_Font_Normal textstyle, the system created a 'Tahoma' font, in 0 character set, of 13 pixels height. MSI (c) (08:50) [22:06:00:623]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI

Morning, i am attempting to add my other NUTANIX instances to my Prism Central instance, and for both they get the "REMOTE CONNECTION CREATION TIMED OUT" error.

I've inherited a Nutanix setup. I've noticed there is 1 Storage Pool setup and 4 Storage Containers. (see screenshot).  I don't know what is the Default setup looked like so I don't know which are required. I'd like to have 1 container. Currently attached to Nutanix Host VDI_POC nutanix-peristent-pool Not attached NutanixManagementShare SelfServiceContainer All of my VMs are on the VDI_POC. Can I somehow delete the other 3 and combine them into the VDI_POC without losing data/downtime?  

We have a scenario in which we are running VMware vSphere environment on existing servers and planning to deploy a DR site. Is it possible that we deploy a Nutanix AHV environment at the DR site and replicate from the existing ESXi environment at the Production site to the Nutanix DR site somehow? We are currently using Veeam backup and replication for VMware for backup. What is the possibility of such a requirement?

Hello, We have an 5.1 AOS cluster (EOL I know), we wish to upgrade to latest possible LTS (which seems to be 5.5.8). The ncc is clean but the preupgrade fails at 3°% claiming a zookeeper is not reponding on one of the CVMs. But allssh genesis status | grep zookeeper zookeeper: [3967, 3996, 3997, 4003] Connection to @1 closed. zookeeper: [3899, 3928, 3929, 24979, 25089, 25105] Connection to @2 closed. zookeeper: [3919, 3948, 3949, 7259, 7365, 7380] Connection to @3 closed. zookeeper: [3923, 3952, 3953, 7709, 8032, 8047] Connection to @4 closed. And code:ncc health_checks system_checks zkinfo_check_plugin runs normally. What could be the issue? Thank you

Hi All, I did use Nutanix CE on a standalone server before for testing and for backup recovery test. Today I was trying to install the new CE version ce-2018.05.01-Stable. The previous version I used was CE0-2017.05.22-Stable. Now the hardware is same. 1x 240 GB SSD, 2x 500 GB HDD, 3x 1TB HDD. 128 GB RAM Boot from USB. 3x 1 TB drives are in Raid0 - Storage 2x 500 GB drives are in Raid0 - ISO's 1x 240 GB drive is in Raid0 - OS - (I tried this with Raid and with out raid.) this time when it is checking the disks it says "MinimumRequirementsError: A set of disks matching the minimum requirements was not found" is there any changes to the minimum hardware requirements with new version of CE? Please help me with this. Thank you, Krishna

Hi, I'm trying to create a schedule for an existing Protection Domain like this: code:def createProtectionDomainSchedule(self,pdname): # Set the schedule for the protection domain try: policy = {"retention_policy": {"remote_retention_type": None, "remote_max_snapshots": {}, "local_retention_period": None, "local_max_snapshots": 1, "remote_retention_period": {}, "local_retention_type": None}, "start_times_in_usecs": [1549477620000000L], "rollup_schedule_uuid": None, "user_start_time_in_usecs": 1549477620000000L, "is_rollup_sched": None, "pd_name": pdname, "values": None, "suspended": False, "app_consistent": False, "end_time_in_usecs": None, "type": "DAILY", "id": "63c037e5-41e4-4630-8641-23509a5360a1gg", "every_nth": 1} protectionDomainURL = self.base_url + "/protection_domains/"+pdname+"/schedules" serverResponse = self.session.post(protectionDomainURL, policy ) print serverResponse.text return json.loads(serverResponse.text) except Ex

HI , I have Question, i want to build new cluster Nutanix using Nutniax NX3000 Series G6, Now I have existing Nutanix cluster running with server NX1000 Series G5. I want to Migrate All VM from the existing Nutanix cluster to the New Nutanix Cluster, Is it possible migrate between cluster nutanix? Can you please tell me step-step to migrate?

I have a scenario where I only have the vmUUID available to me and the NGT tools aren't currently installed on a VM so it appears to be limiting what I'm able to do with the API. Is there a way to retrieve a VMs vmID using the vmUUID?

GV Govindasamy (Nutanix Senior Solutions and Performance Engineer ) has written a series of three blog posts on data locality, I thought I would summarize and share them here. Be the first to reply with a question below. Does data locality really matter? Does data locality matter in HCI Architecture? Data locality is not just about storing new data in local node. It's also about keeping relevant useful data local when needed for low latency access. Read more. Can data locality help scale throughput? X-Ray's throughput-scalability-random-reads and throughput-scalability-sequential-reads tests help answer the following: Can IOPS or throughput rate sustain over time? As number of nodes grow in cluster, can throughput or IOPS scale with it? Read more. What if Data Locality was not a design choice in Nutanix AOS? What if data locality was not considered in Nutanix AOS architecture like a few other HCI architectures available in the market? Would AOS suffer the same as other ar

I have windows 2012 r2 VM but I forget the windows administrator password. When I'm trying to reset the password from recovery command line using below command. X:\sources d: cd windows\system32\ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.old copy windows\system32\cmd.exe utilman.exe. Usually above command will work for normal physical windows server , ESXi Guest vm's to reset the local administrator password. ** In nutanix recovery command line I am unable to view my actual OS disk. Is there any way, How can i view my guest VM os disk on recovery mode. ?

Is it possible to do RF3 with a 3 node cluster? If so any minimum requirements?

Yes. of course. The real answer lies on how these failures are handled in HCI architectures. What happens to the Data Availability during these failures? The questions arise: Does HCI architecture start protecting data as quickly as possible? How smart the architecture is to rebuild the lost data and how long it's going to take? If the rebuild takes longer, this time window is called risky period. Administrator must hope that there is no other failure occurs during this long rebuild window to ensure FTT and RF requirements. Vendors may offer another brute force method of increasing RF / FTT which increases the cost (in the absense of smart architecture). In this video, I have two disk failures simulated with soft disk pulls on Nutanix AOS. This short video can articulate how fast the AOS gets into action to protect the data from subsequent failures and how fast it completes with its truly distributed architecture by employing all available resources in the cluster w

How to change expiry of nutanix snapshot?

Can you please help me with below questions 1.How prism master/Acropolis master will be elected ? is there any criteria to become a leader ?

Can anybody confirm if the Extent Store size shown in the Nutanix Sizer tool will be equal to the Container Maximum Capacity that can be used by the VMs for data storage? I am designing a 3-node cluster with following Disks 3 * 960 GB SSD 6 * 4 TB HDD Nutanix Sizer shows Extent Store (Assuming RF2) = 9.63 TiB for HDD and 0.64 TiB for SSD The total shown is 10.27. Will this value be the Maximum Capacity available for the Container to be made out of storage pool? As I have observed the Container Maximum Capacity is exactly half of what the Storage Pool Capacity is shown. What will be the Storage Pool Capacity shown for the above mentioned specs and is this value visible in Nutanix Sizer tool/Storage Capacity Calculator?

Hello Experts, I have received an 1065-G6 3-node block for new installation. Can someone please guide to how to start from the scratch. This is new install and no earlier base available in the site. Thanks Sam

Hi folks, I want to ask about the details regarding the network connectvity failure and cluster behaviour in such cases. I am mentioning two such scenarios but other scenarios may also be possible. Scenario 1. If one host in the cluster gets completely disconnected from other nodes at network level but host is up and running what will be the cluster behavior and what will happen to the vms running on that particuar host Scenario 2. If all hosts in the cluster get disconnected from each other at network level but hosts and cvms are up and running, what will happen to the vms running on each host.

Hello, with latest AOS (5.10 or newer) it's possible to run multiple hypervisor in same cluster ? For example one cluster with 5 nodes with esxi and 3 nodes with AHV ? Thanks Manuel

Hi all, we are performing a POC and we have a cluster that originallly had about 30 Tib of available space made of SSD+ HDD. Then, to show the customer the performance improvement moving to All Flash we made an inline conversion addind SSD and removing all the HDD and now we have a total available space is about 11 TiB. The storage container has compression enable and the real used capacity is 4,5 Tib. The problem is that most of the VM are thick provisioned and the actual use space is reported at 12 Tib hence above the available capacity. This triggers RED alarms on the Prism console saying that he Data Resiliency is not available. So I have 2 questions: 1) since the actual used capacity is 4,5 Tib what happens in case of a disk failure? 2) how can we manage to eliminate these alarms? Question number 2) is particularly relevant since if we succeed in the POC and the customer could purchase Nutanix all flash systems , they will like to use th

I just upgraded our Prism Central to version 5.7.1 and noticed that the widget with the banana-holding monkey never changes when we get an alert from one of our managed clusters. I removed and re-added the widget from the PC console but it still never updates when we receive an new alert. Grated, this is not very important but has anyone else seen this issue?

URLs such as insights.nutanix.com *.compute-*.amazonaws.com release-api.nutanix.com ... According to our security team, those URLs are white listed, so they must be down. e.g. "release-api.nutanix.com could not be reached. Please check Name Server and Proxy settings" Thx

Hi, We have a Windows 2012R2 HyperV host with about 8 Windows 2008R2 VMs. These VMs are Gen1 using .vhdx as the file system. I'm currently running Ntnx 4.7.4 and was wondering the following: Does the image service import .vhdx files or do I need to use qemu-image ? If I use something like Starwind V2V converter, it supports QCOW2 and RAW, is there a preferred Ntnx format ? (Image inserted below) Does the SMB version on the CVM have unique specifications ? I was trying to use Storagecraft Shadowprotect Recovery options (Linux based) but it would see the UNC?Thanks in Advance, G [img]https://uploads-us-west-2.insided.com/nutanix-us/attachment/2506iD6764FB6092E7F6F.png[/img]

Hi All, Does anyone know how to get this View on files? Regards Gavin