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If you’ve tried to install (specifically):CentOS Stream 9 Red Had Enterprise Linux 9.x server Debian 11and encountered issues with running the installer scripts, you are more than likely missing packages that the NGT install scripts are dependent on. Debian 11.xDebian was pretty simple to troubleshoot in my case. The setup_python.sh script would error in the first few lines. The first thing I found was that Debian 11 did not come preinstalled with bash, it only had a symbolic link that pointed bash => dash. So after installing bash and running the script with bash setup_python.sh, instead of the typical ./setup_python.sh, the script ran up until the next error which was thrown because the python tarball was failing to unzip. This was a result of xz was not being installed.Solution:# install dependenciesapt install -y xz-utils bash# from the source directory of the installer scriptsbash setup_python.sh CentOS 9/RHEL 9First thing I noticed again, was an issue with tar. My minimal inst

Hello, I just  acquired a 3 node nutanix chassis. I have not had experience with a system like this and was wondering if there is an installation guide for setting up the hardware and getting CE installed & configured using all 3 nodes as a multi-node cluster.Here’s the model of the system: NXS2U4NL12G500

Hello everyone, I want to separate the management traffic to different interface and make vs0 interface for VMs communication. So, I understand that I have to create new vs which is in my case will be vs1 but then what is next, how to assign it to be the management port. And another question, is it ok to use the shared IPMI port and make it the management port or I shouldn’t use it and make it free. BR,

I do a AHV convert from VMWare to AHV recently on my 4-node Nutanix NX-1450. Unfortunately only 2 nodes are successfully converted, one node remained failed and retain as ESXi and the other node failed to download the bundle binary. I wanted to reprovision from scratch using Foundation (Bear Metal Deployment) Tools. I have the Foundation 5.5 however, when provision it cannoy connect to IPMI (Error attached)so I an suspecting it is not compatible. Any body can help on this. If you have the earlier version of Foundation Tools maybe can help me? 

I want to install prism central on my cluster, I started downloading the software from my prism element.For more than 48 hours the download is still in progress and I want to abort the download process and resume the installation but I don't see any button allowing me to do this.Can you give me the process to abort the central prism download please?

We have this HCI project that span in 4 different location data center with DR site in mind.Site 1400 VM + 10 PB Disk Site 2400 VM + 5PB Disk  Site 350 VM + 5PB DiskSite 4200 VM + 5PB DiskRF3 model VM and Disk capacity is based on 5 yr projected growth.VMs is between Large to XL type.We cannot come up with best DELL XC model for this setup is XC760 can accommodate this requirements?Any suggestions 

I’ve created a VM within Proxmox, I’ve been able to log into AHV but the Web Portal and CVM are not Accessible they are on the same networks. 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of January 14-20, 2024.KB 15854 - NDB - Stuck operations after resolving connectivity issues with clusterNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of January 7-13, 2024.KB 15486 - NCC Health Check: invalid_node_population_check KB 15583 - NCC Health Check: mst_accessibility_check KB 15694 - Clusters having VMs deployed from AHV Prism Central VM Template and protected by PD-based DR may become inconsistent. KB 15891 - NCC Health Check: recovery_plan_mst_protected_entities_spanning_across_multiple_clusters_check KB 15926 - Troubleshooting Kubernetes Cluster Onboarding to Prism Central KB 15941 - Performance regression when enabling Credential Guard / hardware Virtualization-based Code Integrity (HVIC) KB 16045 - VM periodically exceeding RPO or skipping replications KB 16060 - LCM: Inventory Failed 'Failed to setup esx firewall' for ESXi 8.0.2 KB 16083 - Acropolis service may end up in a restart loop if a VM with more than one vNUMA node is live-migrated on a cluster running AHV 20220304.478Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

We are considering moving from a VMware environment on EOL hardware to new hardware with VMware running on Nutanix. The VMware VM’s all have thick provisioned disks. My question is:if we migrate the VM’s to a new Nutanix cluster running VMware, can we change the disk to thin provisioned during the migration? 

Hello, I have tried to move a Windows 2016 server VM from Hyper-V to AHV. Move would not configure the move automatically because WinRM wasn’t running.Manually installing the agent gave me the following:Firewall: Inbound port [8087] is openService state: [Hyper-V Virtual Machine Management] is not running. Starting service…Service install failed. Please check logs at [location]The log:Log file created at: 2024/01/22 08:50:30Running on machine: reaperBinary: Built with gc go1.18.10 for windows/amd64Log line format: [IWEF]mmdd hh:mm:ss.uuuuuu threadid file:line] msgE0122 08:50:30.724796   11652 service.go:396] Could not access service: The specified service does not exist as an installed service.E0122 08:50:30.740733   11652 service.go:433] Service start failed for [vmms] When I looked at the VM in Hyper-V there was a note saying that the VM had already migrated, so the target VM in Nutanix must have moved but the application clearly failed so we rolled back to the Hyper-V.Is there a way

Hi team,i want to do sizing for cisco HCI with Nutanix, but i am not found hardware for cisco. i just have hardware for Nutanix (NX-series). please your help. 

Hi Gurus, Is NTNX CE will allow me to explore all NTNX technologies and features? I am shifting skills from VMW to NTNX so my question is if I have a physical server how many of CEs I can install as nested and learn NTNX and to which level I canPlease help me demystifying NTNX 

Hi Teeam,can any one help me as soon as possible.I have a four node Nutanix cluster in my environment and there is space issue (not enough free space)in the nutanix cluster for that i did some exercise given below,1.some of the vms migrated to the another cluster successfully and there is no issuue with that. so after migrating vms to another cluster and i have deleted the vms in the affected nutanix cluster …. ok still i am unable to see the free space in my clusterHere my question is ..How much time it will take to reclaim the space/seen free space after deleting the vms in nutanix cluster Recycle Bin has been enabled by default in in the cluster and it stores some data so what about Recycle bin means need to disable after deleting the vms or what about it function to reclaim the space in the nutanix cluster.Please explain any one ASAP. Thanks,Ashok. 

Hey all. I’m in the midst of testing “Moving” vm’s from ESXi to Nutanix AHV. One of these is testing the move of a vCenter Appliance to an AHV cluster. So far the VCSA does not come up cleanly, seems it loses it’s connection to storage/boot device. I’ve been trying multiple variations of the Move settings, in particular: Bypass Guest Operations on Source VM’s, Retain MAC Address and Skip CDROM AdditionHas anyone successfully completed a Move of a VCSA? Any hints/tips? This may be needed as we vacate ESXi clusters.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of December 31, 2023-January 6, 2024.KB 14919 - Alert - A130168 - VMNotReachable KB 15475 - NCC Health Check: esx8_platform_compatibility_check KB 15739 - Alert - A130397 - VDiskDataMismatchDetected KB 16003 - HPE - ESXi 7.0u3o to 8.0u1a upgrade fails with a dependency error KB 16016 - Queries related to Nutanix University (Certfications, Education and Trainings) KB 16023 - Alert - A130203 - EntityCentricRemoteSiteUnhealthyNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

I have a 3 node cluster with ESXI 6.7 and AOS 5.15.2. I’m unable to run any LCM tasks as the inventory fails to get the ESXI scratch space on the hosts. After troubleshooting SSH issues, I discovered I’m not able to even ping the other hosts in the cluster, via IP or hostname. I can ping the other CVMs with no issues, just not the hosts. However I’m able to ping each CVM and other hosts with no issue from the host itself, so the issue only exists when the CVM is the source and the other ESXI hosts in the cluster are the destination.I’ve restarted the hosts and CVMs and ensures the hosts are patched and updated. The hosts are all on the same subnet and no firewall exists between them. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!

Hello, We have two Nutanix box each one has a node, both of them are connected to one physical switch.The Scenario is: We have one VM with Windows Server 2019 that has a File Server solution that needs to be accessible for two different VLANs (10.9.61.xx && 10.9.64.xx)The Steps that we did.1- Created one virtual switch "vs0" with Active-Back2- Created 3 VLANs on the same switch "Vlan0, VLAN 61, and VLAN 64".3- Attached 2 vNICs with VLAN 61 and 64 to that VM.The issue is: that we are unable to access the server from the "user device that is part of VLAN61 or 64".  but accessible from VLAN 0 if attached to the VLAN 0.

Dear All,I’ve have a question about a licensing of the AOS (ROBO per per VM).Environment: vSphere7 (vCenter7 + 2-node ESXi clusters). Basically, fresh Nutanix cluster with HA feature enabled is hosting x4 “service” Virtual Machine:* x2 CVMs, x2 vCLS ( https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80472 )As far I understand CVMs don’t need to be covered by the ROBO license, but what about a vCLS? How AOS is qualifies vCLS: as a service or a “standard” VM?Also, do I need ROBO license for the powered-off VMs?Regards,Dominik

Hi All,We’ve got a cluster which we have recently not renewed support/maintenance on as we are in the process of decommissioning it, however still have some workloads which are lagging behind being decommissioned.Noticed today that the license expiry is approaching (November 2021), what will happen once the license expires?CheersJason

Hello,Nutanix AHV service chain with Fortinet FW test as belowVM1 and FWVM1 in AHV node1, VM2 and FWVM2 in AHV node2, enable service chain redirect traffic successful.BTW, when shutdown FWVM1 simulates FW failure, VM in node1 service disturbed until disable Service Chain redirects traffic to FW. Any solution and setting could provide high availability, except disable Service Chain?

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of December 2023.KB 6082 - The inode_usage_check fails due to large amount of email files in /var/spool/postfix/maildrop directory 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 1532 - NCC Health Check: inode_usage_check KB 1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 4409 - LCM: Life Cycle Manager Troubleshooting Guide KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 3786 - Alert - A1081 - CuratorScanFailure KB 8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB 8514 - NCC Health Check: fs_inconsistency_check KB 6771 - Register for my.nutanix.com a

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of December 24-30, 2023.KB 15777 - Metrics are not being collected for external ESXi vCenter cluster KB 15802 - LCM Auto Inventory may not be triggered if Auto Inventory Schedule is between 12 and 12:30 am KB 15917 - NDB - Create Custom PostgreSQL Database Parameter Profile KB 15999 - The list of destinations that should be excluded from HTTPS Inspection KB 16004 - Unable to modify remote site configuration settings due to non-existent container(s) in the vStore mappingNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Hello experts, we have got a scenario where we need to migrate the Nutanix hardware from one site to another, unfortunately the client does not have any active LICENCES, is there any risk in migrating the VMs and volume groups.Please suggest 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of December 17-23, 2023.KB 15681 - Alert - Collector did not receive metrics from MS SQLServer KB 15920 - LCM - Direct upload compatibility does not show available upgrade. KB 15929 - Alert - Collector did not receive metrics from vCenter KB 15963 - Quota is not getting released when delete request is made by admin users KB 15964 - Project quotas not reflecting the correct quota usage on PC dashboard KB 15969 - AHV upgrade might fail with LCM not being able to stop the libvirtd KB 15972 - Trusted Platform Module (TPM) - ESXi 7.0 U2 and higher PSODs with system configuration issues KB 15974 - Nutanix Objects - Unable to set additional capacity in UI after previous operation failure KB 15978 - Cisco M7SN imaging failure due to VMD mismatch issues in VMD enabled serversNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.