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I have a T20 server with 32GB of RAM and just added a cheap melonox 10Gbps SPF NIC to my nutanix box. I would really hate to reload everything and lose all my data. Do I have to reload the CE Instance or is there a way to load drivers or update to see the NIC. The last thing i want to do is blow it away and the card isnt even supported.

Hello I'm able to create a storage pool and a container via Rest Api but i don't found the parameters to mount the container on all host (ESXi). My request : {"name": "MyContainer","storagePoolId": "777""compressionEnabled": true,} I have tested to add the parameters"nfsWhitelist": ["esxi1",esxi2","esxi3"] with the ip of the ESxi but it doesn't work. Maybe the parameter mappedRemoteContainers (java.util.Map, optional), but i found no documentation on that. Have you an idea ? Thanks Alban

Hi, I'm implementing Nutanix AHV at a customer in a bunker environment. There is no internet access, and the infrastructure will have minimal to no LAN communication outside of the cluster infrastructure. The customer expected to use IP and shot names based on hosts files instead of DNS resolution. Unfortunately, on Foundation, there is no way to setup the cluster with no DNS. And I guess NTP will be the same, but I didn't get there. Any workaround ? Or are NTP and DNS mandatory for the cluster to work ?

Hi, Just implementing new xc630 clusters with AHV. From factory, 4.5.2 is implemented. I know 4.6.0 and 4.6.1 have got some glitches. Some of my collegues are a bit reluctant to upgrade to 4.6.2. From my PoV, it should now be safe... What would be the recommanded course of action ? Upgrade to 4.6.2 a keep 4.5 and go to .3 and wait for feedback on 4.6.2 ?

Hi Nutanix Community, I'm upgrading to NOS 4.1.2, but the pre-upgrade keeps failing when it tries to ssh to the ESXi hosts. It is timing out. The ESXi hosts do have ssh running and I can manually ssh to them with putty. Is there a workaround for this? Thanks!

I upgraded passenger to the latest version, and now I get an error. Here is the screenshot. What is the fix?

Hello, I`m not new to nutanix, but have a long time not focusing on nutanix installation step. while I installed nutanix with foundation+Phonex(NOS location selection)+Hypervisor image one year ago, I think Phonix is just exactly NOS at that time. I find it seems to have new method to image node: Foundation+AOS(NOS location selection)+Hypervisor image, or even having an JAVA applete+Foundation+AOS(NOS location selection)+Hypervisor image I`d like to confirm detailed difference between NOS , AOS, and Phoenix. I have asked guys, no one can explain this clearly to me. also what make me confused is there are varous statement about it in different guide(it is self-contradictory) , also Which phonex package should I use ? shows you need manually make/generate phonix ISO with AOS , but sees you shoud use the Phonix ISO downloaded from nutanix portal site ! look at these slices : "Phoenix is a tool used to install the Nutanix Controller VM and provision a hypervisor on a new or rep

Hi Guys, Is there a difference between 512n or 512e with Nutanix? Vmware doesn't support 512e but vendors are quoting 512e with their config. Any difference in performance? Is one better than the other?

I am trying to use a Cisco 3750X as a star core switch and connect a Nutanix server using twinax cable 10GB. Can you confirm if the installation is compatible? Thanks

Hello everyone, my environment: 6 * 3060-G4 NODE per node : 2*ssd 480G， 4* HDD（how to find out if it`s sas or sata drive ?）1TB RF=2 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- how to calculate? I see prism report 22.18TiB MaxCapacity(Physical)。but I think physical should be 1T*4*6+480G*2*6=24T+5760G if RF2 need two complete copy(like RAID1) ?, the usable capacity is just half of 24T+5760G, and if after one node failure, for N+1 , I should also reserve another extra node capacity(4T+480G*2) ? also I have a basic question and guess, if I have three NODE in all(assume not 6 node ), and one node failed, lost data will be replicate to another any node of remaining two, because of RF. so I have two copy again. but if the second node also fails later(now I have only one node), will the cluster be down ? data lost ? I think data shouldn`t be lost because one of the two copy exists(3 node ,2copy-> 2 node 2copy-> 1node 1copy)

Dears, I found I can`t find ESXI 6.0U2 and AOS4.6.1.1 release in Nutanix compatibility online tool. but I can find ESXI6.0U2 in the iso whitelist json. So It make me confused Which release exactly can be supported by nutanix ？ Finally, I install ESXI6.0U2 and AOS4.6.1. I·m not sure if Compatibility tool is just a best practise or not up to date timely. Can I simply always install newest ESXI version and NOS ?

Hi, Can we create cluster using only two nodes ? eg NX 6235C Regards Budi

We're in the process of deploying our new VDI environment, using View 6 & UniDesk ontop of our Nutanix MetroAvailability Clusters. We will be balancing the number of production desktops running at both sites to spread the load around (we'll have some containers active in site A, some active in Site 😎, and want to ensure VM's do not get vmotioned to the 'standby' site. Although we do have significant bandwidth (10Gbe via dark fibre) & low latency (~1-2ms) between sites, we'd like to avoid the additional overheads where possible. Is there a way for us to easily create DRS rules within vSphere to ensure VM's on Active Containers at Site A should always run on those hosts & vice-versa for Site B? I vaguely remember coming across a PowerCLI script somewhere that did this (or something similar), but have been unable to find it again. Ofcourse it would be amazing if this could be natively handled by Nutanix, but for now i'd be happy with a script we can run on a schedule to update

Hello we have a brand new cluster (4 nodes) and did some failover testing over the weekend prior to placing the new gear into production. We have 2 cisco 4500x 10GB switches and have the nodes split between the two switches for redundancy. We simulated a switch failover by pulling the plug on one of them and experiened some very bad results. Some CVMs became unresponsive and we lost connectivity to most of our VMs. Has anyone else experienced a similar issue? Or can anyone point me in the right direction for configurations to double check? Would appreciate any insight!

We are spinning up some new ESXi 6 clusters and have encountered some strange behavior on 1 of these clusters. The CVMs periodically contact the host machines to gather various stats. All logging seems to indicate this process is working properly, but every few hours to few days we will have a host lose connection to vCenter, and stop responding to all remote management requests (SSH, etc.) It appears that the VMware hostd service simply runs out of resources and stops responding. The only way to remedy that we have found so far is restarting the host completely. In some instances the host console was still responsive, but attempting to restart the management services was unsuccessful. We have ensured all passwords are congruent and have regenerated the certificates used to secure hypervisor to CVM communication. Has anyone seen anything similar?

Hi everyone Somebody have guides and best practice by implement NSX with Nutanix, I want use all Ports 1gb and 10Gb. But I don´t sure what traffic type I can exit for interfaces 1Gb, obiusly configure active-active all interface and load balance. (Type of traffic as FT, HA, Vmotion, Management, etc.,) If any have some diagram or guide's please can share please. Thanks

Hello, We have just recently stood up a brand new cluster and our prepping it for production use. Currnetly we are using acrpololis verion 4.5.2.3 + vsphere version 6.0. Curious to hear if anyone has any feedback in regards to any upgrades that we should consider prior to putting this into production. I know there are some CBT bugs w/ vsphere 6.0 and have also heard that there are some issues with certain combinations of acropolis + vsphere. If you've had stability with a particualr combination it'd be great to hear your feedback. Thanks in advance.

Hi Team , may i know can i install use hyper-v with GUI as hypervisor on Nutanix? Is there any technical limitation? Will it still under support with Nutanix if i install GUI on my hyper-v hypervisor? Kindly advice

Hi, Do we need to configure a quorum (File Share Witness) for an Hyper-V Cluster on Nutanix ? Regards, Alex

Hi, I am currently trying to expand our existing Nutanix cluster but need to downgrade the version of ESXi as the one installed from factory (Dell) is too new. Unfortunately I'm unable to use the latest Dell customized ISO (5.5 U3) because it's not in the Nutanix iso whitelist. Following documentation I'm supposed to download the latest version of the file from the Nutanix portal but I'm unable to find it. It would be nice if someone of you would be able to assist me with this. Thanks, Dieter

I have two nutanix clusters both are using Dswitches. We have a widows based Vcenter 5.5 I want to move the VCVA 6 What is the best method to move my nutanix clusters to the new vcenter?

Good morning. We are trying to size a new Cluster of Nutanix, we don't have a lot of money. We have 2 datacenters connected through 1 GB ethernet. We will have 25 virtual servers on the system. How manu Nutanix servers we need to buy to get HA and Disaster Recovery in the other Datacenter? It's possible to have 2 nodes in Datacenter A & 2 nodes in Datacenter B? Thanks a lot for your help

Using AOS 4.6 on Hyper-V. I will setup Hyper-V host to join Domain. When read manual, I think setup_hyperv.py change Hyper-V hostname. Is it correct? I already name Hyper-V host. How to run setup_hyperv.py? Thanks

Hi All , How can I verify the total RAM use on specific VM using Nutanix AHV?

Hi All, I wonder is it possible to change the internal communication IP (192.168.5.x) to different network segment? The reason being i have my existing server infra, all in 192.168.5.x segment. Anyone have encounter similar case , can share some thoughts on this? Thanks, Jackie