Deployment Success

Raghavan Kollivakkam (Director of Engineering) recently put up a post on our developer blog titled - REST API Versioning – A Misunderstood Soul - It's a good read. Have any comments? reply to this post and lets have a conversation.

Hi, Currently our team having an old NX-2400 block that I want to use it temporarily for testing and utilizing spare resource as well. Does anyone know the highest NOS/AOS version and ESXi hypervisor version that this series support so far? Thanks in advance.

Hi guys ! I'm planning to deploy a metro cluster for my current customer and I have some troubles finding a precise guide to Network Metro Witness configuration. I know that it should be 200 ms RTT at max but that's it ? Will I be able to configure a L3 network or do I need to extend my L2 HCI network to the third site ? If L3 is an option (well hope so...) then what /where and how should I configure my clusters to communicate with witness ? Do someone have some info on this or should I open a support ticket ? best regards ! Thomas

Hi there, I'm trying to use X-RAY for our purpose and I faced an error without more logs/messages than: "A timeout occurred waiting for VM(s) in VM Group 'Cluster Check' to become responsive within 120 seconds." I configured both vNIC of the X-RAY VM: eth0: for communication with the API eth1: for communication with VMs workload eth1 is configured with a specific subnet (I didn't find too much documentation for zero configuration). On my Nutanix cluster, I added this specific network and let it to give addresses to VMs deployed by X-RAY (98 IPs available in this subnet) During the cluster check, 4 VMs are deployed, powered up and IPs are assigned. The X-RAY VM can communicate with these 4 VMs. The problem is for the last one, the 5th VM doesn't start and the cluster check fail. Do you have any idea? Is there some more details in a specific logs? Thanks for your help Cheers, Rémi

I'm starting to explore the foundation API for potential to automate the imaging process of new Nutanix clusters. Do I need to have the Foundation VM running and connect to TCP/8000 on that? Can I leverage Portable Foundation?

We are looking to make a hardware purchase in the near-term and have a question: Is there a necessity to go with SAS versions of SSD's? Or, are SATA versions sufficient? Also, we are weighing the options of the all-flash and hybrid (SSD & HDD) storage models. Please provide your experience with either. Thank you in advance for your response, -Tom

Please help on where are the created snapshots stored in Nutanix

Hi, I am currently working with a customer who is looking into Nutanix and we are planning a POC. They have large VMWARE environment running 6.7. They have some applications that require SR-IOV. If we decide to go to Acropolis, is SR-IOV supported in Acropolis or is there a feature similar to that available natively on Nutanix? Many thanks.

Hello All, I can not list the VMs with the v3 version, I have the same error with the API explorer, I have an error 403, my cluster is in version 5.5.3.1 can you help me? Code: code:$username = 'admin';$password = "pass";$url2 = "https://a01ntnx003:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/list";$data_string2 = '{\"kind\":\"vm\"}';$ch2 = curl_init($url2);curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST");curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string2); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC);curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password");curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true);curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false);curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false);$data3 = curl_exec($ch2); Error: code:{ "state": "ERROR", "code": 403, "message_list": [ { "message": "Requested action is not supported.", "reason": "ACTION_NOT_SUPPORTED" } ], "api_version": "3.0" }

Hello Experts, I am new to Nutanix world and in middle of acquiring basic knowledge. In Prism console under software upgrade, i can see that there are components like AOS , Foundation and Hypervisor. My understanding is that the Acropolis ( AOS ) software is installed in CVM and CVM is called as Foundation. Hypervisor is either AHV or Vmware or HyperV. Is my understanding is correct ? Please clarrify Thanks Sam.

We want a NCC Health Check Report on email only having FAIL and WARNING checks. We don't need the one marked as PASS

Hi, Is there a way to see/export the Hostname and IP of the VMs with the API via cURL? Anybody have an example o extract this information? Thanks Regards

We are preparing to migrate about 350TB of data from our existing 3-tier architecture to a Nutanix hybrid solution. Our storage pool is 480TB in size with about 25% SSD before storage efficiency kicks in. We have post-compression turned on as well as cache deduplication. We are going to attempt to migrate 50-100 VM's per night, and we are afraid that we will overrun our SSD tier eventually. Is there a way for me to run a data tiering job, or force the data to destage lower, daily after the migrations are done so that it doesn't impact our future migrations? Thanks in advance

I would like to setup a test environment but I have less memory. I want to know How much memory does CVM need at least？ AOS version is 5.5

Hi Together, How does the nutanix cluster handle failures with following settings: Cluster Redundancy Factor -> 3 Container Replication Factor -> 2 1) How many disks or nodes can fail? 2) Does this settings make sense or should the Container RF always set to 3 when Cluster RF is 3? Thanks for clarification! Kind Regard Steve

Dear All, Currently my Nutanix cluster consist of 3 Nutanix block, 5 node running on AHV 20170830.171 1 block of 3 NX-1065-G5 node 1 block of 1 NX6035-G5 1 block of 1 NX6035-G5 Recently, one of the NX6035-G5 is down due to hardware issue. Somehow, all the VMs hosted on this node not able to auto failover to the others node. Upon checking with Nutanix, we were informed that the failover failed as we don't have sufficient available memory. We were told that AHV will perform the failover for all the fail VMs to one particular node which have sufficient resources to accommodate it; like moving the whole load from the fail node to another node. Previously we are using VMware where it will failover VM by VM to all the available nodes. Anyone encounter similar issue with AHV?

Hi, I am actually doing my end of study internship, My subject is " implementation of hyperconverged infrastructure" I want to know how to migrate VMs from a legacy infrastructure with vmware Vsphere 5.6 to Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure with VMware vsphere thank you.

We are planning a major migration from existing 3-tier ESXi over to Nutanix/ESXi (AHV to come later). Due to time constraints in our move, we are trying to optimize how many VM's can migrate at one time. VMware has a few well-known limits on their operations: vMotion operations per host (10Gb/s network) - 8 vMotion operations per datastore - 128 Storage vMotion operations per host - 2 Storage vMotion operations per datastore - 8 If I take a "one storage container to rule them all" approach, I will be limited to 8 migrations at once, as long as I spread out my migrations to 4 hosts. My target will be a 14 node cluster, so I would like to push up to 28 operations, if at all possible. Would it be considered a best-practice to carve out 4 storage containers, knowing I'm still in the same pool, and fan out the migrations to get around these limits? My goal is to saturate my 10Gbit inter-datacenter link. Yes, I like to push the limits (break things?). Would the multi-data

Does anyone have a working example?

I’m in the sales process and the customer is asking me about the physical requirements of an NX appliance (particularly, the NX-1365-G6). Where can I find this information? Like power consumption, thermal dissipation, dimensions, etc... I know there are some here, but they don’t list all the products there.

I am not able to discover new node placed in different switch in same VLAN from an existing cluster The issue not able to discover the newly installed nodes in new switch with same VLAN of existing cluster( it is in old switch ) , but not able to discover these new nodes in existing Could anyone help me to give a clue , why these nodes are not able to discover in the existing cluster. I want to expand the existing cluster with these new nodes

Please let me know if there is any reason as why VirtIO is shipped separately?

downloaded Nutanix CE image file from Next nutanix in my local system and uploaded in Ravello cloud via import tool. Once done I have created Ravello application with empty image and booted with nutanix uploaded image as bootable drive and published it. Once login to console It started nutanix installation but coming with error only one core available. Minimum cores required are 2. How do I overcome this error to install. And I don't have options to select cores in Ravello cloud , only options to select are CPU's, Disk's, network,ports. Can anybody help? Or suggestions to start working in Nutanix CE edition and understand console.

Has anyone experienced the X-Ray tests going to 0% but staying 'open'? For the last few days our X-Ray tests have been running to completion but not finishing. As a result the additional tests do not get run. The curie log indicates "exiting _cluster_results_loop" but the tests hang open at 0% and they have to be cancelled.

Derek Seaman blogged about the now renamed Move 3.0 on his site. https://www.derekseaman.com/2019/03/nutanix-move-3-0-formerly-xtract-for-vms-now-ga.html Here is the crux...New to Move 3.0: Move services are now Dockerised and all Move and Move Agent Services now run as Docker Containers. Architecturally, this is an important milestone as we “servicify” move and provide the ability to add/update features without much service disruption as well as providing flexibility to run Move anywhere. GA release of Hyper-V as a source, adding to source list of ESXi and AWS 1-click upgrade of Move. (Support for dark sites ​is coming) Further enhancements to User Experience for Large VM migration with enhanced status updates on the UI Support for a Mixed mode of Source VM setup by allowing for a mix of automatically prepared source VMs and manually prepared source VMs in a migration plan. Support for PEM based authentication for Linux source VMs running on ESXi source What