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Hello I'm new to Nutanix and setting up a small 3 node cluster with ESXi. Just wanted to know whether there is any automatic migration from Nutanix side in case of resource contention on 1 node. One such example: if there are too many VM hosted on a single node and causing storage contention, is there any option on Nutanix to automatically migrate some VM to other nodes (similar to what VMware DRS does - but this time, for storage) Thanks

I'm curious to find out how folks have been implementing departmental shared folders in nutanix files. We are currently running SMB files from a NetApp filer which has the ability to setup Qtrees/quotas for subfolders of the top level share. Is this possible in nutanix files as I'm not seeing anything in the documentation around it.

Hey all, Does anyone have, by any chance, a disk descriptor file for the new CE image file? I am installing CE as a single node and when performing the upgrade by uploading the binaries it fails constantly. Most likely due to NTP restrictions because my lab admin has NTP blocked on this network. I also don't have access to VMFS on the hosts to make a descriptor file. Hopefully someone out there has one similar to the last version. Thanks

if you are trying to set “Enhanced vMotion capabilities” (EVC) on a running cluster, you may see a pop up Error Window saying: “… Powered-on or suspended Virtual machines on the host may be using cpu feature hidden by that mode” You can create a new cluster in vSphere and set the EVC on it first with no hypervisor, and then move the nodes and Vms from the old cluster to the new cluster. Please follow the link “Unable to Set Enhanced vMotion Capability (EVC) on a Newly-created Cluster” for detailed instructions.

Can anybody provide detailed steps or some info on how to deploy Nutanix AHV on cisco UCS in domain mode. Im getting multiple errors, some of errors: https://pastebin.com/JjYm3pqy I have FI setup as recommended in field installation guide for cisco ucs.

Hello, What are the pros and cons of these two series? What workloads are better suited to which series? Why would you choose an 8k block over a 3k block and conversely? Thanks

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 29-October 5, 2019. KB 7668 - FAIL: Unable to get Kerberos Key Distribution Center IP'susing DNS resolution. Check Name Server configuration on this cluster. KB 8044 - How to enable Windows Search on Windows Server 2016 KB 8156 - Alert - A1195 - Cluster in Read-Only Mode KB 8182 - NCC INFO Message: Unable to fetch PSU type info of block for known reasons KB 8216 - Changing Data Services IP Address KB 8258 - Alert - A130207 - Failed Hosting Network Segmented VIP KB 8274 - Alert - A130173 - Unable to get Availability Zone Endpoint KB 8276 - Alert - A300408 - Recovery Plan Validation Failed With Errors KB 8277 - Alert - A300422 - Recovery Plan Execution Failure due to Validation Errors KB 8278 - Alert - A300401 - Recovery Plan Execution Failure KB 8281 - Alert - A130158 - VM Protection Failed Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Hello, We are running out of network ports in our datacenter so we thinking of reclaiming the existing Nutanix IPMI network cables and instead use KVM dongles for those. I want to check with everyone here to make sure that there are no functional issues with loosing IPMI connectivity or does Nutanix need IPMI connectivity all the time. Let me know your recommendations.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of September 2019. KB 4141 - Alert - PowerSupplyDown KB 1540 - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory is full KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 4409 - LCM: (LifeCycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 4188 - Alert - IPMIError KB 2090 - AHV | Host and Guest Networking KB 4158 - Alert - PhysicalDiskBad KB 3523 - How to create a Phoenix ISO or AHV ISO from a CVM or Foundation VM KB 7077 - Alert - CassandraSSTableHealth KB 2608 - Cluster Health Checks Incorrectly Show Warnings and Failures KB 7503 - G6, G7 platforms with BIOS 41.002 -DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1863 - NCC Health Check: sufficient_disk_space_check KB 3357 - NCC Health Check: ipmi_sel_cecc_check KB 4273 - NCC Health Check: aged_third_party_backup_snapshot_check KB 6937 - Firmware Binary Links for Host Boot device(SATADOM/M.2), HBA(LSI 3008) & SATA Drive devices KB 5731 - NCC - ERR: Identified as CPU inten

We are excited to announce the release of Nutanix Move 3.3.0 Nutanix Move 3.3.0 is released and the bits are available on the Portal for Download. Move 3.3.0 Release Notes User Guide New features included in this release are : Support for VM migrations with UEFI boot mode Support for migration of VMs with French & Japanese language settings in Hyper-V Version 2 of Move APIs for simpler consumption and integration Stability and security improvements Be one of he first to download and share your experience in this forum 👍

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 22-28, 2019. KB 8052 - Nutanix Files - Performance for clients going over WAN KB 8174 - Foundation stalls on NX-1175S-G6 platform KB 8194 - AHV | "Size should be greater than 0 and less than or equal to 8589934591 GiB" error shown when trying to insert ISO into CDROM KB 8199 - Alert - A1145 - RestartVMsFailure - Failure To Restart VMs For HA Event KB 8201 - Kubernetes Cluster deployed by Karbon with Proxy transitions to a CRITICAL state when proxy is decommissioned. KB 8208 - Alert - A130107 - Recovered VM Disk Configuration Update Failed KB 8231 - CVM Reboot (and several other) SNMP traps not generated KB 8234 - Error when trying to delete an AHV network that has associated NIC KB 8252 - Alert - A200801 - Availability Zone Connection Failure KB 8253 - Alert - A200704 - Xi Payment Missed KB 8254 - Alert - A200703 - Xi Payment Missed KB 8255 - Alert - A200702 - Xi Subscription Expired KB 8257 - NCC ER

This is my first script using the Nutanix provided Powershell cmdlets. Everything has been pretty straight forward so far. But i'm having one problem, i think someone will probably know off hand. I'm building a report. In this report it should have next snapshot time for protection domain (Easy enough). But also last snapshot created time (haven't found it yet). Anyone will ing to assist? I'll show the two object types i'm building already in the script. Basically PD's and Cron schedules. code:$pd = Get-NTNXProtectionDomain | where {$_.Active -eq $True}#Showing basically how the loop is setupforeach($p in $pd){$e = (Get-NTNXProtectionDomainCronSchedule -PDName $p.Name).userStartTimeInUsecs#showing how my custom object is built$dpcust = @{ ProtectionDomain = $p.Name VMName = $p.vms.VMName -join "," NextSnapshot = $scheduledtime Usage = $convertUsage Schedule = $p.cronschedules.Type LocalRetention = $p.cronschedules.retentionpolicy.localmaxsnapshots -join ","

Hi, Has anybody tried to run a Metro Witness under any hypervisor / virtualisation platform other than AHV / ESX, I have imported the VM into Oracle Virtualbox, Sorted IP addressing and created the cluster but all the cluster services wont start and there is nothing clear in the logs why the services wont start. Regards, Pete

Hi Can I install vmware 6.7 into Nutanix hardware below is nutanix specification https://www.adn.de/fileadmin/user_upload/Hersteller/Nutanix/Datenblaetter/SB_Nutanix_Xpress_1_.pdf

So I can use prism central to go into each project and get the access control list, which is group and role. I am unable to decipher the API to produce a comprehensive list of Projects with the associated Group with Role. Does anyone know the link between these sets of data? I can get individual lists. The Access_Control_Policy does not have the correct information. I have a particular role that does not show up in a dump of the acp list or details. I've looked by uuid and name. Thanks, Bill

Hi, I want to set a VM to a categorie, using the REST API. However I Get the message INVALID_REQUEST code:"Cannot clear previously set time zone Don't know what to do with this. Please note that I had to add the "power_state", because if I don't I get an INVALID_REQUEST code: "VM power state must be specified for Update operation." Which I dont understand, as API documentation said power_state is optional. Endpoint used: PUT /vms/{uuid} Body: code:{ "spec": { "name": "BACHELOR2018", "resources": { "power_state": "ON" } }, "api_version": "3.1", "metadata": { "kind": "vm", "spec_version": 3, "categories": { "SLA": "A3" } }} Response body: code:{ "api_version": "3.1", "code": 422, "message_list": [ { "message": "Cannot clear previously set time zone", "reason": "INVALID_REQUEST" } ], "state": "ERROR"}

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 15-21, 2019. KB 7966 - LCM Pre-check : test_esxi_scratch_space KB 8031 - Alert A1103 - Physical Disk Removed From Slot KB 8047 - Error when adding roles and features KB 8127 - Changing IP address of DB Server in Era KB 8160 - Secure Boot/UEFI with Nutanix KB 8169 - IKVM console error server disconnected code 1006 KB 8173 - LCM: GUI displays "No data found" after successful Inventory operation KB 8178 - BEAM GOVCLOUD FAQs KB 8191 - This cluster has multiple licensing violations KB 8211 - Removing Unreachable DB servers from Era KB 8212 - ESXi-6.5U3 - Updated iso_whitelist Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

I downloaded ce-2019.02.11-stable.img.gz but it fails to extract. I tried 7zip, Winrar and Winzip.

How can I migrate one or more server's inside Hyper-V Manager (Everything inside one server) to Nutanix VM Server. What are the steps or tools need to use?

Any suggestion on migrating Azure Cloud VMs to Nutanix on-prem AHV cluster ? Any 3rd party tool like Nutanix Move available for this ?

Current, I using AWS (Amazon) for store our company server Now I bought Nutanix Server for using in Local company I want to migrate AWS to Nutanix, but in actual, Operation system which I using in AWS is Windows Server 2008 Standard R2 Can I move it? and please guideline me for this action Thank you so much!

Hi. I am fairly new to scripting especially with Nutanix. I can do Powershell scripting just fine but making the conversion to shell scripts has my brain in a knot. I have some acli commands to create a new vm, create a new Disk and a new NIC but I was unsure how to run them as an executable from my Windows desktop. Our cluster is Nutanix AHV. So I run this from a command line to open putty and connect. It works fine without the script. putty.exe -ssh admin@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx -pw ****** -m "C:\newVM.sh" The script is: acli; #creates a clone of Server2016 #vm.clone aTest clone_from_vm="Server2016RefImage" memory=8G num_cores_per_vcpu=2 num_vcpus=2; #creates a D drive # vm.disk_create aTest bus=scsi create_size=200G index=1 container="Container-1"; #Add a NIC #vm.nic_create aTest connected=true network="Vlan6"; Each line will run fine if I run it in putty but I am not sure if I am stringing the commands together correctly. If I try to execute the script it opens the putty session the

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of August 2019. KB 4141 - Alert - PowerSupplyDown KB 1540 - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory is full KB 4409 - LCM: (LifeCycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 4188 - Alert - IPMIError KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 4158 - Alert - PhysicalDiskBad KB 2090 - AHV | Host and Guest Networking KB 1863 - NCC Health Check: sufficient_disk_space_check KB 6937 - Firmware Binary Links for Host Boot device(SATADOM/M.2), HBA(LSI 3008) & SATA Drive devices KB 3357 - NCC Health Check: ipmi_sel_cecc_check KB 7077 - Alert - CassandraSSTableHealth KB 2608 - Cluster Health Checks Incorrectly Show Warnings and Failures KB 7503 - G6, G7 platforms -DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1709 - NCC Health Check: hostname_resolution_check KB 7386 - NCC Health Check: power_supply_check KB 5731 - NCC - ERR: Identified as CPU intensive KB 2896 - Nutanix BMC Manual Upgrade Guide KB 1438 - Sh

I am not sure how to check total of Vcpus and how much Vcpus are being used.

Does node restarts while AOS upgrade or its just CVM ? upgrade from 5.5 to 5.10