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Hi Trying to install the Nutanix CE on my Dell R620 , I have 3 Drives , 1 SSD and 2x HDD First issue i had as the Nutanix installtion was seeying y SSD as HDD I fixed that by running the below command :lsblk -d -o name,rotaif it is 1 then it is HDD lsblk to identify the SSD if it is sdasudo sh -c 'echo 0 > /sys/block/sda/queue/rotational' Then the system recognise the SSD.I select SSD as C, and the other two HDD as H and D. Running the setup from a USB drive that was created using RUFUS.Installation proceed but then I get the below error: Fatal imaging thread hypervisor failed to with reason traceback most recent call last file "/root/phoenix/kvm.py line 112 in image self customizer cutomize.() file "/root/phoenix/customisze_kvm.py line 1304 in customize self.__mount_kvm_partitionfile "/root/phoenix/customise_kvm.py line 137 in ___mount kvm partition sysutil.get_ahv_root_dev self.stagefile "/root/phoenix/shell.py line 53 in shell_cmd raise standarderror Standard error : failed com
I have an old cluster of 4 NX-8035 nodes running AHV used for testing purposes. The LCM update is failing with sata_dom_wearout_check. Is there anyway to skip that check when running LCM updates? This is old hardware and I wont be replacing any parts, just want to get updates to run.
Thank you in advance for any advice. I have checked some other threads but I cant really get a concrete answer. I was looking through the hardware recommendations on this page: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_0:top-sysreqs-ce-r.html and it makes it seem that a CE node requires an HDD. Im envisioning building a three node cluster, each node with the same storage layout, all flash:Boot device: 1x 250GB SSDStorage device, hot tier: 2x 2TB SSDStorage device, cold tier: nothing This would comply with the ‘maximum number of SSD/HDD drives per node is 4’ instruction. I dont want to have any HDDs in the installation. Is the drive layout I presented viable? Cheers!
Following on from this post:https://next.nutanix.com/move-application-migration-19/how-to-provide-guest-credentials-when-creating-move-plan-through-api-41667Trying to add credentials to my move plan, via the prepare api -https://www.nutanix.dev/api_reference/apis/move.html#tag/Plan/operation/preparePlan Anyone know the format or have an example of the prepare payload? I have this:{ "Spec": { "RunInBackground": false, "GuestPrepMode": "manual", "CommonCredentials": { "WindowsPassword": "<<removed>>", "WindowsUserName": "user@my.domain" } }, "VMs": [ { "UUID": "1234567-bd99-5555-955f-d444094bd5fb", "VMId": "vm-123456", "Password": "<<removed>>", "UserName": "user@my.domain" } ]} and get the following error: Invalid input parameter for operation: 'prepare migration'. Parameter: 'PrepareVMsInput VMs'The UUID & VMId matches the VMs in the move workload.
Hi, We’re trying to run a POC initially on hardware that has a ASMB IPMI, this appears not supported for foundation deployment. We’re a bit confused about what we do as the documentation for ipmi-less installations isn’t really clear - any help would be greatly appreciated as its stopping us from doing any initial POC testing. We’ve tried multiple routes to install AHV/AOS but all seem to be falling flat at the moment.Foundation VM is unable to deploy to the IMPI targets, gives the Incompatible error. Does not auto discover targets, IPMI is a ASMB9-iKVM Attempts to manually create ISO on VBOX VM not successful, ISO is created by VM but unable to boot stating a kernel error. Tried multiple attempts at ISO and burning in different ways but no luck at all.
Hi teams,i’m looking for nutanix collections icons for visio or drawio diagrams.Thx
In the past, we have built clusters with metro sync (AHV) at 2 Locations and a 3rd for witness.Customers want to get an infrastructure what can tolerate the loss of one Location.Can we stretch a 3 node Cluster across all 3 Locations, one node in one Location?RTT is less than 5ms.In this case, what network topology is required?
Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 4-10, 2024.KB 15723 - NCC Health Check: ovs_congestion_status_check KB 16275 - The guest OS of the Infoblox VM has the incorrect order of NIC ports KB 16498 - Creating a new segmented DR interface fails with "in-use remotes" error KB 17052 - MongoDB Connection Failure Troubleshooting KB 17121 - Nutanix Self-Service: Pre-existing project update task fails with "INTERNAL_ERROR:'uuid'" post restore KB 17127 - Objects cluster pods in error state due to Docker registry not running KB 17192 - manage_ovs command fails for node that is not part of a cluster KB 17205 - Nutanix Move does not maintain the IP address order/scheme after the migration if the Source VM has multiple IP addresses assigned to a NIC KB 17256 - Objects - Migrate a Nutanix Objects object store management to a new Prism Central instance KB 17259 - Nutanix Files | File server console cannot be launched in network-segmented clusters KB 17266 - Missing NTNX
Hello, I have instantiated a new cluster and I can’t seem to figure out why the Network Visualization won’t work for my cluster. LLDP is enabled on my Meraki switch. I can see when new devices join my network as Nutanix on both my eero and firewalla. When I do lldpctl from the host it shows the following:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------LLDP neighbors:-------------------------------------------------------------------------------Interface: eth0, via: LLDP, RID: 1, Time: 1 day, 01:01:39 Chassis: ChassisID: mac ac:17:c8:2f:de:80 SysName: Home - switch SysDescr: Meraki MS225-24P Cloud Managed PoE Switch MgmtIP: x.x.x.x Capability: Bridge, on Port: PortID: ifalias 9 PortDescr: Port 9 TTL: 120 VLAN: 1, pvid: yes Unknown TLVs: TLV: OUI: 00,18,0A, SubType: 1, Len: 4 00,2C,32,89----------------------------------------------------------------------
Hi TeamI had a complete working setup of Nutanix Community Edition along with Prism Central deployed. I was able to access my prism central through UI and Rest API for working with virtual machines. But suddenly i was disconnected from my PCVM today morning and was not able to access anymore. I tried to do ssh and logged in through PC UI but I couldn’t. I am able to log into both my AHV VM and CVM. In CVM, cluster status is showing all services are up and running.Referred this KB article but no luck.https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CpzXCASCan you please help me here. Attaching the required screenshots.@ktelep @Kcmount @JeroenTielen
I’m trying to retrieve all VM and CVM using the following endpoint in PowerShell https://example.com:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/listI get all VM information back as requested but unfortunately I’m not getting any CVM and there is no information related to this in the offial API documentation.As far as I understand in version 1 you would get all vms and cvms using same endopint (vm/list)Is there something I’m missing to set up in order to get the controller vitrual machines ? { "kind" = "vm" "length" = 50000 "offset" = 0}
Hello everyoneI am trying to move a VM from my VSPHERE environment to my AHV environment using Nutanix Move. I am able to add the source and target without any problem, but when I launch the migration after a few minutes I get this error: Internal target agent error: 'Error creating target path [ErrStr="exit status 1", Location="/hermes/go/src/libcloud/prism/ahvmountimpl.go:213"] Internal Server Error (error=0x5024)'. Please help me
Hi,while I want to setup my first Nutanic CE i get this ERROR message. I anyone know how I can solve this problem?
when we are installing zabbix on AHV this error is coming “started cancel waiting for multipath siblings of sda”
I am trying to expand my cluster and receiving this error in the UI Failure in pre expand-cluster tests. Errors: Failed to start foundation service to do network validation SSD tier on nodes [u'xx.xx.xx.xx', u'xx.xx.xx.xx'] is not sized to accomodate expected metadata growth on cluster. Refer KB-8842 for more details. Cluster has 1 nodes. Cluster expansion from less than 2 nodes not supported KB-8842 - i run the test outlined in kb-8842 and do not get any errors. Only warnings not related to the cluster expansion.health_checks run_all+-----------------------+| State | Count |+-----------------------+| Pass | 198 || Info | 2 || Warning | 2 || Total Plugins | 202 |+----------------------∓ It states this and it appears that the ssd is to small.Using data obtained in the preceding output, look for the nodes with the smallest SSD tier, especially in a heavily skewed cluster. In order to sustain cluster growth, sizing of the SSDs in smaller nodes
Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 28-August 3, 2024.KB 16911 - Cluster conversion (ESXi to AHV) fails when VMware datastore name includes non ASCII characters KB 16913 - Windows VM Crashed BSODs due to a Citrix bug KB 16992 - Alert -150011- IPFIX exporter host update failed KB 17019 - Categories tab for VMs doesn't load in Prism Central when there is a non-ascii character in category value KB 17140 - PC – Cluster UUID is no longer required to create a subnet in a virtual switch KB 17170 - CSI: Hypervisor-attached Volume Groups may prevent Kubernetes cluster deletion KB 17175 - Objects Replication may get stuck after using baseline_replicator KB 17186 - The /etc/shadow file can get zeroed out on AOS 6.8 with SCMA schedule set to hourly causing CVM login failures. KB 17187 - LCM inventory fail with checksum error on ESXi KB 17191 - Upgrading NCC to 5.x causes ERR for check_vm_pinning_config KB 17209 - Two node clusters might experience service crashes fo
Is there any way to create a VM recovery point from a powershell script?
I completed a CE 2.0 install, I can access AHV and CVM from console, but not from the outside network. Do I need to modify iptables or do something specific with the bridge or vswitch? This is a single cluster on an hp dl380 gen9, I am only using 1 nic and my node is on vlan 20 with IPs 10.1.20.20 and 10.1.20.21 for AHV and CVM in my test lab. I have not set vlans on ahv or cvm. If i plug my laptop into vlan 20, I can’t ping or ssh to ahv or cvm. Any help would be appreciated.
Hi, If I enable VLAN trunking at VM level, say for example VLAN 100 and VLAN 200. Do I need to assign two different IPs in the same NIC for each VLAN?
Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of July 2024.KB 1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB 1536 - NCC Health Check: disk_online_check KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 6082 - inode_usage_check fails due to large amount of email files in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory KB 8514 - NCC Health Check: fs_inconsistency_check KB 3786 - Alert - A1081 - CuratorScanFailure KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 4944 - Unregister cluster from Prism Central and cleanup (regular and force), FAQs KB 1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 4639 - How to place CVM and host in maintenance mode KB 1252 - Root Cause Analysis of CVM Rebo
I have been working with an HP DL380 Gen9 and have been having issues. I can complete the initial install of CE 2.0 from a USB image, but on the next boot I get the grub rescue screen.I have set the Smart Array to HBA, I have tried all manor of HDD/SSD options and have simplified the install with 2 Crucial MX500 1 TB SSD’s. I have even bypassed the p440ar card and SAS extender and plugged into the SATA connectors on board. I am installing to a 32GB SD Card. I have tried USB 3.0 device installs and changing brands of SD Cards and USB sticks both for install media and boot devices. I have reset the configuration on the machine multiple times. I have set boot mode to legacy BIOS and have unchecked single cluster install. All drives are visible in the installer. There are no timeouts our errors during the install.If I attempt to repair and ls (hd0,mdos1)/boot or any sub directories I get an attempt to read or write outside of partition error. (hd0,msdos1) is the only partition readable. I’
Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 21-27, 2024.KB 16874 - Access to Nutanix X-tribe KB 16979 - vCenter server user authentication failed alert on Prism Central KB 16999 - Power button press override on AHV host KB 17114 - LCM direct upload does not show compatible upgrades if framework bundle and compatibility bundle are uploaded together KB 17131 - Nutanix Files - Unable to update existing Nutanix files exception list KB 17138 - NCC check_license_compliance waring when VM flash mode or vDisk_pinning is enabled License volition alert KB 17176 - Alert - A200000 - Cluster Connectivity Status KB 17177 - LCM - HPE : BCM5741x-Network Adapters With NVM Image v226.1.x.x may fail upgrade KB 17179 - LCM - HPE : Upgrade of NVME Drives connected to non-VMD platforms will be skipped to firmware version HPDK5(B) KB 17182 - Alert - Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) - INSTANCENOTFOUND KB 17198 - Foundation App on MAC not working after Foundation Platforms Upgrade KB 17213
How will a Redundancy Factor 2 All-Flash cluster with 4 nodes and all of running VMs get impacted when 3 disks get failure on the different nodes at the same time. Are those running VMs on the cluster still running and available to access when this happens? Will all of VMs be unavailable until failure disks get replaced? Will this impact to those VMs which VM data reside on the failure disks? or something else?
How will a RF2 All-Flash cluster with 4 nodes and all of running VMs get impacted when 3 disks get failure on the different nodes at the same time. Are those running VMs on the cluster still running and available to access when this happens?
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