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I have installed IIS on Windows servers, performed LCM framework in 2 phases for version 2.7 and after that was able to set LCM to use Dark site and to point to my IIS web server http;//MyIP/release. That allowed my to run inventory. However I can’t update any other component. I have downloaded LCM packages for AOS, foundation, FLOW, etc extracted with proper WinZip version or embedded tar. Have correct folders structure as per LCM Dark Site guide, but still LCM do not see any component for upgrade. What else I can do?And for sure for example my AOS and AHV requires update. Permissions checked, MIME types checked. CVMs and PC can talk to web server. Compatibility bundle has been extracted and copied to root folder /release. Don’t know what else might be the problem. Most likely something silly. Please help. And just FYI, direct upload to PE is not an option for me. I have many clusters in DarkSite and need to use web server as a repository.

Hello,I have a customer that want to find only the PD snapshots was taken manually.also he asked me how can he change the default retention for the manual snapshots for two weeks?I didn't find nothing in the documents, and i need some help.Thanks in advanced,Regards,Matan.  

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of April 2024.KB 1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB 6082 - inode_usage_check fails due to large amount of email files in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory KB 1532 - NCC Health Check: inode_usage_check KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 4409 - LCM: Life Cycle Manager Troubleshooting Guide KB 8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 8514 - NCC Health Check: fs_inconsistency_check KB 3786 - Alert - A1081 - CuratorScanFailure KB 3716 - Reclaiming licenses and cluster deco

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 28-May 4, 2024.KB 15570 - Alert - A300442 - RecoveryPlanFailedToReleaseAssignedIpFromProtectedVM KB 16156 - Unable to update Distributed vSwitch due to orphaned VM KB 16409 - 3rd party snapshot fails when network segment is enabled with the error "INTERNAL ERROR" KB 16422 - NDB - Remove Database server VM fails at 0% with "Operation failure detected. Execution ended abruptly without updating status." KB 16521 - NGT - NGT Upgrade or Installation fails with "InternalException" KB 16727 - Redeploying Mine Dashboard fails with "Permissions change to reverse_proxy_script failed" KB 16735 - No response for echo (ping) request to AHV hosts(s) with active-backup bond mode on BCM57416 NIC KB 16757 - Alert - A130148 - ProtectionDomainSnapshotDelayed KB 16759 - Enabling the Administration feature (Single Account Role Based Access Control) KB 16762 - Common Objects/MSP commandsNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to

So I was wondering what Akbor actually did here.  In the reply he says he just, “This is now resolved, I used edit-zeus to set state.”Is there a set of instructions or some sort of helpful advice for what he meant by edit-zeus?  I tried poking around but it seemed pretty dangerous for a linux noob like myself LoL Thanks for any help you can give,                                                        Brian  Removing failed node 2 months ago 1 reply 52 views Hi everyone,We had an issue with SATADOM on of the nodes, which has been replaced.  Unfortunately, we had to rebuild the CVM as well as they hypervisor and now need to add the rebuilt node back to the cluster.  The problem is we can’t remove the existing node as we are getting the following error:Error: Cannot mark node for removal. Node xx (xx.xx.xx.xx) is to be added back to metadata storeDoes anyone know how we can overcome this error?P.S. we don’t have Nutanix support coverage anymore.Many thanks in advance.Akbor 

Hi AllI have a Sangoma SBC VM installation but for the NICs it shows 1 MBps unknown.  Connection seems to work but I am worried about the actual speed if they only use 1mbps I have tried to install NGT on the linux base but it fails with incompatible OS : Sangoma LinuxI am not really a Linux bod so not sure what I need to do to get the NGT drivers on to th SBC - can anyone assist with some idiot style instructions to do this? ThanksEric

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 21-27, 2024.KB 15853 - Lenovo HX3331 nodes shown as HX3330 in Prism KB 16453 - NICs remain down after an AHV Host reboot due to Network service not set to auto-start with the Host KB 16680 - Flow Network Security (FNS) security policy page in PC loads with "Failed to Fetch" error for VPC enabled environments KB 16692 - Cluster QuickAccess may not function properly for users assigned Custom roles KB 16713 - Validation fails with "RPC to query node networks failed" due to presence of trunk distributed port groups during cluster conversion KB 16720 - AOS - Cerebro service crashes, DR and backup tasks fail KB 16722 - create_mount_target_snapshot_intentful tasks fail repeatedly due to leaking snapshots by ARCserveUDP KB 16725 - AHV VM memory and CPU hotplug fails with the "internal error: unable to execute QEMU command 'device_add': cpu hotplug with SMI wasn't enabled by firmware" error KB 16742 - Cisco UCS - Imaging via F

Is there a way to fetch the efficiency state for VMs (Bully, Over Provisioned, Constrained, Inactive VM, Good) using API requests?"

Hi Guys,Can anyone confirm that it is possible to unlicense one or two NX clusters that are in production in order to re-allocate the same licenses but smarter?Explanation: We have 2 clusters with 3 AOS Pro licenses sets (Cores + FLASH)Set1: first 3 nodes of cluster1 (2019, renewed 2022)Set2: first 3 nodes of cluster2 (2021, renewed 2024)Set3: 2 more nodes, one for each cluster (2022)We should then have set1 allocated for cluster1, set2 for cluster2 and set3 split between the 2 clusters but currently each set is used partially in cluster1 and 2 which is a mess for next licenses renewal…So my target would be to reclaim all the licenses for both clusters and then reallocate them, cleaner,  through seamless licencing. Is that scenario possible without stopping the exploitation? Thanks for your advice and guidance.

Hi again.So i did my fresh installation, and at long last the password worked.Now, i can access the https://ip-of-cvm:9440, but only using “Internet Explorer”Any other browser will say something like this:“IP” usually uses encryption to protect your information. This time when Microsoft Edge tried to connect to “IP“, the site returned unusual and incorrect credentials. This can happen when a hacker tries to impersonate “IP” or a Wi-Fi login screen has disconnected. Your information is still safe because Microsoft Edge disconnected before any data was exchanged.You can't visit “IP” right now because the site has sent encrypted credentials that Microsoft Edge can't process. Network failures and attacks are usually temporary, so this page will probably work again later. And using “Internet Explorer” it seems like a lot of virual elements arent displayed correctly.

Hi.So this is my first installation of Nutanix, and it is kicking my behind.I have done the installation, and i want to connect to the CVM, but it doesent accept the default password.https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Clusters-AWS:aws-clusters-aws-using-prism-element-web-console-log-in-t.htmlI have tried root, admin nutanix and password “nutanix/4u” “Nutanix/4u”. So, what is the default password when SSH the first time to the CVM? Best RegardsJens.

Just wondering if anyone knows if there are any documented instances of someone being able to successfully re-inject the VirtIO drivers into a UEFI-based Windows VM?  At first, we thought it was just a VMware problem, but then we had the same issue happen on a native-AHV VM.  The VM operates normally for weeks, with regular reboots, but randomly after a reboot, it bluescreens with an "Inaccessible Boot Device" error.We haven't found a single "solution" that has actually fixed the problem.  We can get the VM to boot into recovery mode, but none of the recovery options work.  If we manually load up VirtIO driver from the command prompt (drvload vioscsi.inf) we can regain access to our drives, but adding the driver to the boot image via DISM does not help (dism /image:c:\ /add-driver /driver:vioscsi.inf).  The server reboots to the same blue screen.SFC doesn't help, neither do the standard bootrec options (i.e. bootrec /fixmbr, bootrec /fixboot, bootrec /rebuildbcd), nor does "bootsec /nt

Hello Guys I have a plan to refreshment nutanix from G5 to G8 or G9but I have a question. Can I add node G8 or G9 to cluster G5?So that I can migrate VMs completely before upgrading. Please, someone with experience, please advise me.Thank you 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 14-20, 2024.KB 15818 - Expand cluster pre-check: test_nci_low_endurance_check KB 16490 - Cluster intermittently reports lack of Rack Fault Tolerance KB 16516 - NDB - Troubleshooting Windows AG Cluster Provisioning Failures KB 16541 - Witness VM password reset KB 16544 - kubectl top error: metrics not available yet KB 16545 - How to enable CoreDNS query logging? KB 16547 - Adding Calico Route Reflectors to a DKP cluster KB 16548 - Configuring the Dex LDAP connector with TLS KB 16551 - No data displaying for certain users in Grafana KB 16554 - Default Jobs missing from Prometheus after applying overrides KB 16555 - Deploying Kubernetes cluster with DKP capa controller gets stuck due to credentials issues KB 16556 - Traefik Forward Auth error: No such host KB 16557 - UNAUTHORIZED: project not found error while pushing images to Harbor Registry KB 16558 - Failure to upgrade DKP 2.6: Machine failed to resolve secret refere

Hi,how do you think about migration of a single MS Exchange Server incl. its database via Move?I know that is not recommended but there are some technical facts for?In the past I’ve migrated a lot of MS SQL servers via Move without problems (migration offline while vm was powered off - virtio drivers were installed in a previous step).kind regards,Thomas 

Hello, We have a couple of Nutanix clusters (with or without Prism) and we would like to monitor them from ELK. What would be the best ? Is there a KB on how to setup a web service collector ? ThanksNicolasHFR

Hello,I wanted to know what is the oldest version of Nutanix that supports Linux kernel version 3.5.  Also, if there is any way that I could get an iso installer for that version so that I can review, that would be extremely helpful.  I’m trying to determine what version of a particular software will work with Nutanix and that software supports Linux kernal verison 3.5 and greater.  Thanks in advance for the help!Matt White

Hello, Is it possible to replace the default SSL certificate of the X-Ray “appliance”, I didn’t find a procedure for that ? Thank you in advance (hoping this is the correct place to get help on this)PhS

Hi,I successfully deployed three nodes as VMs in my VMware nested environment without any issues. All are pinging each other. CVMs are also pingable from each other.But when I create cluster from a CVM, cluster creation failed, medusa and its below listed services are having DOWN status. Please help.Regards,Gurdeep Sandhu 

Hello,I would like to get information of physical switch ports connected to virtual switch uplink ports via REST API. I don’t see API for the same in Prism Central v3 or Prism Element v2. I see the connectivity in Prism Element Network topology GUI. Appreciate if you could share how to retrieve this information.Thanks,Sachin Vishwarupe

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of March 2024.KB 6082 - inode_usage_check fails due to large amount of email files in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory KB 1532 - NCC Health Check: inode_usage_check 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 1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 4409 - LCM: Life Cycle Manager Troubleshooting Guide KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB 8514 - NCC Health Check: fs_inconsistency_check KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 3786 - Alert - A1081 - CuratorScanFailure KB 6771 - Register for my.nutanix.com and Supp

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 7-13, 2024.KB 15210 - Nutanix Files: REST API user creation fails for AD user with "Request failed with status code 500" KB 16052 - AAG DB provision might fail if Active Directory Sites and Services configuration is inaccurate KB 16205 - Networking: Nutanix AOS and Juniper QFX Configuration Considerations KB 16457 - Nutanix Files : Rubrik backups for Nutanix distributed shares may fail due to DNS misconfiguration KB 16488 - Nutanix Move | File share migration to Nutanix Files Distributed Shares does not copy individual files present on the root of the source share KB 16499 - DR | Replication of vTPM-enabled VMs may fail after enabling DR Network Segmentation KB 16503 - Unable to power on Memory Overcommit enabled VMs KB 16511 - OpenShift compact cluster installation fails on top of Nutanix KB 16526 - Configuration Steps for Entra ID (formerly Azure ADFS) Integration with Prism CentralNote: You may need to log in to th

I was wondering if there are any requirements with regards to installing Nutanix on a CISCO C series hardware managed by an FI switch.I have enough CPU resources, Memory and storage.Ive set the local disk on a raid1 after the error on screenshot1, I went and removed all old partion on this raid (Old ESXi Installation) and even initialized and recreated the raid virtual drive after the error on screenshot1, I went and removed all old partion on this raid (Old ESXi Installation) and even initialized and recreated the raid virtual driveSecond screenshot if after the 2nd attempt to install on a newly created Raid 

I have an OVA which I usually deploy on VMWare. when extracting the vmdk’s from it I get two of them. I am booting using a legacy bios (because the UEFI version just hangs in “press f2 for boot manager”) from the current disk and I get the following error:  Can anyone please help in resolving this issue? Thank you.

I have an old unused cluster that I would like to bring up as a test unit.  Is there any guide available on how do I go about setting this up?  Can’t call support as this is already EOL. Thanks!