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Anyone among us tried to install CE on Dell R720 ? 

I have been trying to install Nutanix CE on a bear-metal machine (homelab) to day but it constantly fails. It seems that the culprit is related to instsvcdrv.service not being able to start. I’ve recreated the USB drive for a few times with various drives but the behavior is the same.It’s probably something else hardware related but I can’t pin point it.The system is a AMD 7950x with 96GB RAM and 3 x 990 PRO NVME drives which worked fine with Proxmox. 

I’m attempting a new installation of CE. The installation itself completes with no apparent errors but I can’t connect to either the AHV or CVM IP’s assigned during the install. The onboard server NIC is a four port HPE 331i which has a Broadcom chipset. Three of the ports are connected to the same network vlan that the IP addresses are tied to. I have tried trunking them on the switch side, leaving them all on as individual ports and enabling/disabling each so that only one connects at a time and have had no luck with any of these strategies. I’ve tried to log into the console of the CE server but haven’t been able to find credentials that work. Any ideas would be much appreciated since I’m so close to be done hopefully.

I’m having trouble with network connectivity on a new installation of CE. The FAQ on this site says to login as root and run a command to repair the installation but I can’t find a listing for the root password.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of September 2024.KB 1536 - NCC Health Check: disk_online_check KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 8514 - NCC Health Check: fs_inconsistency_check KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB 7837 - This cluster has expired licenses. To be compliant. View licensing details. KB 5505 - Long Term Support (LTS), Short Term Support (STS) and Extended Short Term Support (eSTS) Releases (Applicable only to AOS) KB 4639 - How to place CVM and host in maintenance mode KB 9437 - How to restore a node from LCM firmware upgrade failure using lcm_node_recovery script KB 14298 - Account has been locked. Please contact portal-accounts@nutanix.com error at the Support Portal login page KB 1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB 5987 - Reclaiming Licenses KB 9132 - Alert - A1305 - Node is in degraded state KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDo

I have 4 node, what is the best practice to connect node with production switch connect the 2 ports 10g for each node to switch and keep 1g without any connect? 

I am attempting to Install CE on a HPE Proliant DL380Gen10 server with 128GB RAM, two Xeon 4116 cpus, one 480 SSD, and four 600Gb HDD’s I created a USB install drive using Rufus and the newest version of CE. I get all of the way through setting up the drives and networking and the process appears to be going well until the part way through the ‘Hypervisor installation in progress’, then fails with Mount /dev/None does not exist message. 

Hello, I’m trying to install CE on HPE Bladesystem C7000 and installtion getting terminated  quickly. The blade had 2 disk of 150Gb in RAID0  I would like to know i’m missing anything here.  Regards,Harshal

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 22-28, 2024.17111 - Failed to upgrade the PC to 2024.2 during migration of DVP data to Vdisk 17351 - NC2 on Azure - Dummy vNETs 17354 - NDB - Cloning a SQL database fails while executing VSS command with "VSS_E_NO_SNAPSHOTS_IMPORTED" 17471 - How to remove entities created during Nutanix Object Store provisioning 17472 - NDB Oracle Database patching fails if software PD is not present 17504 - Citrix VDIs created with the same name as golden image 17529 - Windows VM fails to boot with INACCESSIBLE_BOOT_DEVICE error as disks are offline 17536 - Nutanix Files | NFSv3 mounted exports may have degraded performance 17544 - Shibboleth IDP Metadata XML File Fails Import into PC 17552 - Cluster expansion fails for ESXi clusters used in combination with LACP 17557 - Cisco UCS ISM - Foundation Fails at 1% with Node Configuration Error 17568 - Move - Broadcom VMware VDDK framework alternative download page. 17572 - Prism Centr

OpenSSH_7.4p1, OpenSSL 1.0.2k-fips  26 Jan 2017 version is using in the latest LTS AOS and AHV (AOS 6.5.6.6 , AHV el7.nutanix.20220304.511 )Please help us to resolve this issue.It is recommended to use the newer version of the Paramiko Python sshd 2.4.2 module. It is recommended to disable port 2222 used by Paramiko from within the system if it is not in use.and another issue:The versions of ssh(OpenSSH) software used in the prompt are between 7.4-9.2, and there is a username enumeration gap corresponding to these versions. Various modified exploits of this vulnerability can affect up to ssh version 9.1.

I’ve been trying to get a CE up and running for a few days now.  I keep running into this issue:CVM will not start after initial install:[root@NTNX-0618718a-A ~]# virsh start NTNX-0618718a-A-CVMerror: Failed to start domain 'NTNX-0618718a-A-CVM'error: Hook script execution failed: internal error: Child process (LC_ALL=C    PATH=/usr/local/sbin:/usr/local/bin:/usr/sbin:/usr/bin /etc/libvirt/hooks/qemu NTNX-0618718a-A-CVM prepare begin -) unexpected exit status 1: [Errno 2] No such file or directory: '/sys/bus/pci/devices/10000:01:00.0/driver_override'Hopefully someone can point me in the right direction.  I’ve not been able to find a solution searching the forums.  I pulled the NVME out of the mix and I”m only using ssd’s and spinners for data. I can ssh into ahv just fine but CVM shows:[root@NTNX-0618718a-A ~]# virsh list --all Id   Name                  State-------------------------------------- -    NTNX-0618718a-A-CVM   shut offSystem Hardware:Fujitsu Primergy RX2530 M4 256GB RAM d

Is there anyway to collect multiple VM’s mac address and vLAN & IP details through prism central.

I noticed that the option to retrieve the BOM from the sizer is grayed out. Additionally, when I attempt to modify the cluster settings, I receive a message stating: 'You cannot add/edit advanced cluster filter options for basic users.

I installed CE and can’t install a compatible version of prism central. How can I get access to prism central?  

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 15-21, 2024.KB 16959 - NDB - MSSQL DB server registrations fails with error "Could not create SSL/TLS secure channel" KB 17124 - AOS - Network topology is not populated after upgrading to AOS 6.8 KB 17363 - Self-Service Pre-upgrade_check: test_mpi_enabled_dm_upgrade KB 17394 - Foundation Central - Deployment fails on CISCO HCI device with exception "InstallerVM failed to install OS" KB 17440 - Handling UI Warnings for Resource Limits and Usage with Default Cluster Sizes KB 17478 - NDB - Sanitized Snapshot creation using API KB 17487 - When restoring a VM with Veeam on a new cluster, it may fail to power on with "No host has enough available resources" error KB 17503 - Prism Central – Upgraded stalls at the 'Freeing SMP alternatives memory' stage during the boot phase KB 17533 - Poor Network performance in Linux VMs on AHVNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

An administrator is tasked with enabling Calm 3.2.0. What is the minimum version of Prism Central that should be running?  PC.2020.8  PC.2020.11  5.17  5.15  

Hello Experts,It is possible to update the cluster to a version of AOS that supports ESXi 6.7 U3. However, we do not have a license for ESXi 7 or 8.We must upgrade and deploy the PC. The current version is 5.20.3.5. After reviewing the compatibility matrix on the Nutanix portal, I discovered that this version of AOS 6.5.3.7 is compatible with ESXI 6.7 U2 and U3. did any one tested that before ?and i would like to deploy PC,PS : this cluster has esxi 6.7 u3 as hypervisor  

Hello Community, hope you are all doing well.  We have 8 NX-3155G-G6 nodes and Each node has 4 x 8TB HDD and 2 x 3.84TB SSD.We would like to add new disks to expand to storage Capacity. After checking this link , we noticed that there are 6 empty drive slots on each node and it is not clearly specify how to fill them (please have a look on the picture below).What are the possible layouts to add new disk to populate the empty slots ? Thanks in advance.

Hello together,i have followed the installation guid:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_1:top-login-wc-ce-t.htmlnow the only thing left is to connect via the web console but the browser cant connect to it it refuses the connection due to timeout. Do i have to aktivate the web console first or is there any config that i could have missed?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 8-14, 2024.KB 16327 - NCC Health Check: network_controller_host_certs_expiry_check KB 17032 - SSH access fails after upgrading to ESXi 7.0 Update 3d KB 17278 - VMs with Windows Credential Guard enabled may enter paused mode due to the "emulation failure" error KB 17359 - Incorrect use of "Prism Central Installation in a Non-Nutanix ESXi Environment Guide". KB 17360 - FNS 5.x version not offered for upgrade in LCM when running FNS 4.x or earlier due to current policy version KB 17441 - CALM Runbooks stuck in Pending state KB 17453 - AOS, PC, Flow or FSM upgrade may hang at running preupgrade checks KB 17461 - Mantle service on CVM utilising excessive CPU due to expired certificates KB 17468 - Klas Voyager VM4.0 - Foundation may fail with "IndexError: bytearray index out of range" KB 17474 - NVIDIA GRID GSP firmware timeout causes host crashes with Lovelace family GPUs KB 17480 - Alert - A200611 - NetworkSecurityRul

Newbie trying to configure Nutanix.Setup:Dell server with iDRAC VLAN’s are setup on the switch Nutanix is installed. Both the Host and the CVM have an IP address in the same VLAN (100)Questions:Should I configure the VLAN on the CVM first or on the host? It seems if I configure the CVM first I can then configure the host. If I configure the host first I can’t get to the CVM. (expected) When I configure the CVM it never seems to return so I have to hard reset the host. Setting the CVM tag back to 0 it does come back.Commands:On the host: ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=<vlan tag> On the CVM: change_cvm_vlan <vlan tag>

Hi all, new to Nutanix here likely for the same reason a million other folk are trying it out. I’ve managed to find the download (though not exactly straight forward) for Phoenix 6.8.1 CE and am attempting to first time install on an r820 with 5 enterprise ssd sas in front bay. I’ve split the first off into it’s own virtual drive at full capacity (300something gb) for H install. The second and third off into their own individual virtual drives for CVM1 and CVM2. Then the last two combined into one virtual drive for D.  I am able to select the virtual drives for H and D however the CVMS tell me it can’t be selected because the drives must be SSD which they are. Drives are fine and the virtual disks are recognized just not allowed to be selected. Any insight is greatly appreciated I’d love to test Nutanix out but documentation has been all over and even downloading (from a link in a seemingly random forum post) my confidence is a bit waned.

Which command can administrator can run to find the correct VLAN ID from the CVM?manage-ovs ovs-vscl

It’s been running for 21 hours. Is there a way to stop, delete so I can re-deploy? Thanks

Good day, I have deployed a 3 nodes so that I can play around with. all is fine until I’m about to mount the cluster:3 nodes on a same vLANAHV can be pinged from my laptop but cannot ping the CVMcan Ping each of the CVMs from their respective AHV Until nowmanage_ovs show_uplinks  2024-09-06 19:27:37,861Z WARNING manage_ovs:1263 Failed to fetch gflags. Acropolis service might be down: HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=2030): Max retries exceeded with url: /h/gflags?show=hypervisor_username (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTPConnection object at 0x7f688f73f590>: Failed to establish a new connection: [Errno 111] Connection refused',)).2024-09-06 19:27:37,864Z WARNING manage_ovs:1263 Failed to fetch gflags. Acropolis service might be down: HTTPConnectionPool(host='127.0.0.1', port=2030): Max retries exceeded with url: /h/gflags?show=hypervisor_ahv_nonroot_support (Caused by NewConnectionError('<requests.packages.urllib3.connection.HTTP