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Hi. We have a large grouping of VM's that are not always required to be running and would like to find a way to shutdown these particular VM's on a sunday night. Now anyone know how to find a group of VM's (either via label, project, category etc) and pass a shutdown command. Ideally I would like to do this via PowerShell but I will take anything.

Hi Team, Previously we are using apiversion v1 and getting metrics using /vms https://hostname4:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/vms/ Now with api version v2 we are not able to get below mentioned metrics hypervisor_cpu_usage_ppm not able to find this with both urls(vms,virtual disks) hypervisor_memory_usage_ppm not found memoryCapacityInBytes not found ipaddresses not found but found requested_ip_address are both same?? controllerVm not found Able to get few metrics using virtual_disks and above mentioned metrics we are not able to get, Are these not available in v2 or modified to anyother url. Please let us know how to get these values using v2 apiversion.

I've written a PoSH script which does the following. Authenticates to Prism Central V3 API Calls /category/query API to get a list of VM uuid's that are members of the PROD category. Write this list of uuid's to a string Connect to the NTNX cluster using Nutanix PowerShell cmdlets. Iterate through the above string and execute Set-NTNXVMPowerState against the uuid's. Steps 1 - 4 work as expected. Step 5 seems to iterate through the list as it should but when I put in the Set-NTNXVMPowerState command to be executed, it throws an access denied error. Once the script gives the error, the powershell connection looks like it locks the account and you cannot execute any commands. If I comment out the foreach loop, and just execute a normal PoSH cmdlet (after the Connect-NTNXCluster) such as Get-NTNXClusterInfo, it works fine. I have tried both my account (which has Prism admin rights) and the Prism Central admin account with no luck. So 2 questions: Any ideas

In a Nutanix Cluster, if we have three hypervisors (say VMware / Hyper-V / AHV) if the AHV node is down, can the VMs from AHV node failover to Hyper-V or VMware hypervisors available in the same cluster in commercial edition of Nutanix.

Hello. I am trying to connect to the /iso/ folder to clean up some of the old versions. I also connected some VMware Datastores that I should probably do some housekeeping as well. I connect to the cluster primary IP 192.168.1.100 and get access denied. It's the same nutanix username & password I use for SSH which works fine. https:// I updated firewalls to allow port 2222 (thanks @sandeepmp ) but still getting access denied which makes me think either 1) nutanix and root won't work and/or 2) the folders have different credentials than ssh. ********************************* SO after typing all that, I realized I was supposed to use the login administrator to the web nutanix portal (admin). Oh geez. Well, I'll leave this all here in case somebody wants to do a dumb like I just did.

Hi, I have troubles to use Prism API v3 using the reference guide. For exemple I don't see the different possible options for an attribute. I explain myself with a quick example: If I want to create an alert with api using the reference guide below https://developer.nutanix.com/reference/prism_central/v3/api/alerts/postalertsnotify the attribute "notification_type" is required and must be a string. But what kind of value is expected here? I need to know what are the possible values, and what does mean each value. This is just an example, but it is the same for all other API end point. At this point API becomes a headache for me... Do I miss something here? Thank you for your help

Dear all, I have previously asked, but it was wrong forum, i have existing cluster with Dell XC630-10 4 node, and i want to expand capacity in my cluster, but my team can only buy new hardware ( dell XC640 ) cannot buy dell xc630-10 again, can i expand my cluster with different hardware? and please advice about the step to expand my cluster

# On March 4, I posted the following but I have written the wrong answer myself, and the status of that bank has become "solved". # Actually it remains unresolved. I will post it again because I want to resolve it by all means. # The problem is "CVM can only communicate with AHV". Dear All, I am trying to build Nutanix CE into the environment of Nested ESXi. I downloaded and prepared the latest version of ce - 2018.05.01 - stable.img.gz. The ESXi to build the AHV is 6.0. First of all, we started to work as a single node cluster, we plan to develop into a 3 node cluster if it works. 192.168.0.27/24 to AHV, GW: 192.168.0.254. I set up CVM 192.168.0.28/24, GW: 192.168.0.254 and started the installation. After waiting for a while, a message stating that the installation was successful is displayed and the message "Nutanix CVM IP: 192.168.0.28" is displayed. However, only AHV can communicate with this CVM, and it can not communicate with other devices on the same subnet. If you che

Dear All, I am trying to build Nutanix CE into the environment of Nested ESXi. I downloaded and prepared the latest version of ce - 2018.05.01 - stable.img.gz. The ESXi to build the AHV is 6.0. First of all, we started to work as a single node cluster, we plan to develop into a 3 node cluster if it works. 192.168.0.27/24 to AHV, GW: 192.168.0.254. I set up CVM 192.168.0.28/24, GW: 192.168.0.254 and started the installation. After waiting for a while, a message stating that the installation was successful is displayed and the message "Nutanix CVM IP: 192.168.0.28" is displayed. However, only AHV can communicate with this CVM, and it can not communicate with other devices on the same subnet. If you check the Arp Table of another Linux machine on the same subnet, the correct MAC address of CVM is registered but the MAC address of this Linux machine is not registered in the Arp Table of CVM side. Only the MAC Address of AHV is registered in the Arp Table of CVM. CVM can not communic

Would I be able to create storage containers in my cluster for the purpose of "pinning" VMs only to hosts that are assigned to the containers - restricting VMs to the hosts that belong to the container? The need is to control VM migration during Software Upgrades due to multicasting issues with the hosts.

Is it possible to mix, 3 node All Flash NX-3360-G5 &4 node Hybrid NX-1465-G5and form a AHV cluster ? NX-3360-G5 is 2*10 core CPU, 12*32GB Memory, 18*1.9TB SSD whereas NX-1465-G5 is 2*10 core CPU, 8*32GB Memory, 1*960GB SSD, 2*4TB HDD how storage tearing will work in this scenario ?

I'm trying to get a better basic understanding with regards to controllers in a VM farm's data path. We are going to be in the process of migrating some of our farm resources to another data center which may include powering down controllers in a rolling fashion. What type of service interruptions would users expect to see?

I'm trying to add a new vCenter target but I get this error :

trying to find the mobility installer?

I'm running nutanix 5.5.0.7 with esx ,when i create vmware machine，it's prompts “ This cluster is not registered to any vCenter server. You must register a management server and enable DRS before you can create a VM. ” Is vcenter installed directly on the node node ，then register this vCenter and enable DRS? Thanks in advance,

Hello again CE community! I'm running a Dell R730 with these specs: 2 Sockets 8 Cores Each Socket 256 GB RAM I'm running ESXi to run a 4-node cluster and want to parcel the CPU and Memory evenly among the 4 CVMs. Q1: Based on this, what should my CVM CPU/RAM settings be? Q2: When I allocate vCPU and RAM for VMs, how do I translate a bare-metal config spec e.g. 4x WS2016 8 CPU, 32 GB RAMto Nutanix VM specs, based on these constraints? I just need an example to shine light on how to break down the physical to esxi to nutanix CVM to VM specs. Thanks in advance, Brit

I have a problem with arp requests on the bridge for guest traffic In the drawing below the current architecture. If a request arrives from the outside, passing through the firewall, and the firewall is starting to communicate to a VM connected to a NIC to BR1-UP bond of BR1 bridge, the ARP request for the resolution of the VM address stops at the bridge BR1 and do not reach the VM, in this case the firewall and VM ARP tables remain unpopulated and the communications stop. On the other hand, if the communications depart from the VM to the Firewall (for example with a ping) the ARP request is processed by the firewall and the ARP tables of firewall and VM are correctly populated with the respective MAC ADDRs. Firewall IP and VM IP are in the same broadcast domain, no routing. I checked with Wireshark on the windows VM, with tcpdump and ovs-appctl fdb/show on the Nutanix host and when the communications start from the firewall the ARP request goes up to the physical card of the BR1

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