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Hello, is there a NOS Hardening Guide available? two specific questions: is there a Firewall running on the CVM? can I install my own ssl certificate? thx and best regards Manfred

Hello - I am going through the NPP 4.x tutorial and I was wondering if someone can explain to me vDisks in the context below. I guess I don't fully understand what vDisks are. (Copied from the tutorial): "If user data for VDI is kept on a vDisk that is attached to the end-user VM, you can store the user data vDisks on a compressed container and the VM vDisks on an uncompressed container." Thanks in advance.

Hello - Does anyone know if there is an IPMItool command to set the interface to 100MB full duplex? Is this option to change it even available? We are having some IPMI issue where connectivity drops every so often. We are working with networking to check their side, and we've done various things to test/isolate the issue. On the network switch side, the ports have been configured to 100MB from 1GgE. One suggestion that came up from networking is to set the IPMI interface to 100MB full duplex. Thank you. RV

Hello - I am studying for the NPP exam and the online guide talks about Foundation and Phoenix. Does anyone know if these utilities are available for download to customers? Thanks! RV

It looks like my CVM's running 4.0.1.1 are vulnerable to the now hyped-up CVE-2014-6271. What is the official Nutanix stance on remediating the vulnerability - should I wait for an NOS hotfix or can I pull down the relevant CentOS patch?

Hi guys, I'm designing a Nutanix infrastructure, and I'm struggling with the most optimal configuration given the specs Specs: - 2 sites (80 km apart, latency

I am trying to create a Protection Domain, but can't figure out how to supply the name of the Protection Domain. I have to use a string and a JSON object as body parameter, but it keeps throwing errors. JSON objects I have tried: {"name":"MyTestName"} {"body":"MyTestName"} {"input":"MyTestName"}

Hello All, One of our customers decided to have Vmotion and ESXi MGMT on different VLANS and they will split the 10G connections. So for this kind of setup, which VLAN should CVM be in? Do you have any recommendations? Thank you so much...

I am experimenting with the Protection Domain Cmdlets and trying to use New-NTNXProtectionDomain. I am running into some issues and I hope there is someone around to point me in the right direction. New-NTNXProtectionDomain prints "protectionDomainName cannot be null" when I run it without any parameters, but the parameter protectionDomainName doesn't seem to exist. New-NTNXProtectionDomainprotectionDomainName cannot be null The help doesn't show how to use the Cmdlet: Get-Help New-NTNXProtectionDomain -fullNAMENew-NTNXProtectionDomainSYNOPSISAdd a Protection Domain.SYNTAXDESCRIPTIONPARAMETERSThis cmdlet supports the common parameters: Verbose, Debug,ErrorAction, ErrorVariable, WarningAction, WarningVariable,OutBuffer, PipelineVariable, and OutVariable. For more information, see about_CommonParameters (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=113216). INPUTSOUTPUTSRELATED LINKS Intellisense gives some more info, but no

should "diagnostics.py run" script run without issue with this hypervisor? Seems like fails with creating container for this testing? Or has this been verified to run without issue on Hyper-V and NOS 4?

Found installation guide like this ones http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/nutanix/VMware-view-nutanix-best-practices.pdf https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/nutanix/VMware-view-nutanix-reference-architecture.pdf During installation i see : VCAI: Check Use native NFS snapshots (VAAI) Host Caching Enabled, digest re-computation scheduled for off-work hours (M-F / 9-5) But on VMware site http://pubs.vmware.com/view-52/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.view.administration.doc%2FGUID-61ABF143-EE88-4688-AD84-056EBD0B918B.html Native NFS snapshot technology (VAAI) is not supported in pools that are enabled for View Storage Accelerator or virtual machine disk space reclamation. What settings should i use?

Has anyone toyed around with the Upgrade software module in the 4.0 GUI? I'm looking to upgrade to 4.0.1 using the GUI. The two query boxes need both the NOS Metadata File and the NOS Binaries. I was able to download the 4.0.1 .tar file from the support portal but I can't seem to find the Metadata File associated with it.

I added a 1TB disk to each of my 1050 nodes. I followed the guide and added them correctly. Just noticing that in hyper-v though it still shows the 6th disk as completely free. It's offline and added as a pass-through like the other 5 disks are to the CVM. PS C:Usersswinters> diskpart Microsoft DiskPart version 6.3.9600 Copyright (C) 1999-2013 Microsoft Corporation.On computer: DEVM01 DISKPART> list disk Disk ### Status Size Free Dyn Gpt-------- ------------- ------- ------- --- ---Disk 0 Online 59 GB 0 BDisk 1 Offline 372 GB 0 BDisk 2 Offline 931 GB 0 B *Disk 3 Offline 931 GB 0 B *Disk 4 Offline 931 GB 0 B *Disk 5 Offline 931 GB 0 B *Disk 6 Offline 931 GB 931 GB DISKPART> I followed page 134 of the Platform_Administration_Guide-NOS_v4_0.pdf. I only have a single storage pool so it looked like it added them automatically to the correct storage pool ids. I just want to make sure it's added right. How do I set

Vmware released patch for problem described in Nutanix Field Advisory#17 Unexplained NFS datastore disconnects with ESXi 5.5 U1 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076392

ncli> storagetier ls-supported-typesStorageTierTypeDTO(name=kPcieSSD, displayName=SSD-PCIe)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kSataSSD, displayName=SSD-SATA)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kHDD, displayName=HDD-SATA)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kSAN, displayName=SAN)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kNAS, displayName=NAS)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kCloud, displayName=Cloud) any information about SAN, NAS, Cloud? It will be something like storesimple ?

Hi, In the Nutanix Bible : http://stevenpoitras.com/the-nutanix-bible/#disk_balancing Steven explains the feature "disk balancing", and wrote : "Disk balancing leverages the NDFS Curator framework and is run as a scheduled process as well as when a threshold has been breached (eg. local node capacity utilization > n %)" what's the percentage of this parameter ? And can i check and/or change this number ? Thks ! Sig'

I just turned on compression on a couple clusters. I'm wondering if there is a metric somewhere that tracks compression ratio over time? Trying to identify any trends on how much I can expect the data to compress.

Hey guys, We are busy building a Nutanix 3.5.3.1 infrastructure with vSphere 5.5. We have six nodes in two blocks, and the design consists of 2 Nutanix clusters with each its own vSphere cluster. HA is enabled on each cluster. We are getting an error on both Nutanix clusters in PRISM UI: Virtual Machine auto start is disabled on the hypervisor of Controller VM Nutanix best practices recommend to enable "Start and Stop Virtual Machines with the system" on each host, and move the Nutanix CVM startup to Automatic startup. But, according to This VMware KB the automatic startup feature is disabled when moving an ESXi host in an HA enabled cluster. Just like the error message says. Is this expected behavior? Can this error message be disabled because it is just not valid in combination with VMware HA enabled clusters? Or is this still a configuration error?

I've been working on a VDI project with Nutanix of late. the project i sstrating to wrap up now and I've started to blog about 'Quick Tips'. I thought I would share them here for all to see, hopefully will be of help to others. First one went up today: Nutanix Networking | Quick Tip Thanks!

Hello, It's made the news yesterday, but in case you missed it, there seems to be a bug within vSphere 5.5U1 that affects all NFS users. NetApp & VMware (at least, maybe Nutanix too?) are working on the subject. See the post below for more information: http://datacenterdude.com/vmware/nfs-disconnects-vmware-vsphere/ That may also explain the delay from Nutanix in the support of the 5.5U1? Did you guys catch this while working no the 5.5U1 support? Sylvain.

What's is the official stance on using the Driver Rollup ISOs VMware has been releasing? Can they be used if the ESXi version is in accordance with the Nutanix-approved version compatibility list?

I wonder what the upgrade path(s) for NOS 4.0 are. I'm currently on 3.5.1, looking to skip 3.5.2 & 3.5.3 to go straight to the new features.

We have a shiny new VMware NTNX environment, yeeh! Question: I'd like to be able to measure the virtual disk metrics for a specific workload (backup). Preferably without any layer in between so I can really see what the workload does. Idea is to use a virtual machine on NTNX as a backup server and see what kind of parameters I use for the backup storage. Is it possible to present a container on the CVM as an SMB share and write my backup on it? Or would it be best to use the Windows NFS client to access an export on the CVM? Background: I'd like to purchase a separate storage platform for the backups. But since I'm not really sure what kind of IO patern and throughput I need to sustain, I'd like to test and measure before we buy.

Hi , I have run below command to show my hypervisor password from one of the CVM , but the password doesn't come out , anyone can help ? Command : zeus_config_printer 2> /dev/null | grep "hypervisor {" -A 3 Result: nutanix@NTNX-14SM36060045-A-CVM:192.168.1.208:~$ zeus_config_printer 2> /dev/null | grep "hypervisor {" -A 3 hypervisor { address_list: "192.168.1.204" username: "root" }-- hypervisor { address_list: "192.168.1.206" username: "root" }-- hypervisor { address_list: "192.168.1.207" username: "root" } Apart of it , can anyone share where is the password configuration Hypervisor and CVM store in nutanix system? (from book it said store in ZEUS , but i don't know exactly the path location ) Thank. ;) Regards, Zack

Hello, We are in the process of moving our VMWare site to Nutanix. With 3 locations i would like some design tips to setup the NTNX sites/cluster(s). I am very new to nutanix. Situation: 3 fysical sites, 2 sites with 4 NTNX hosts and 1 site with 3 NTNX hosts. Every site dedicated fiber connection. The 2 "4 hosts sites" are for production, the 3 hosts site will be otap and/or extra hosts for production. How to design the NTNX cluster(s) with minimal risk of loosing data and the most redundancy. If someone needs more info please let me know grtz