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Hi,We used LCM to upgrade our cluster to AOS 5.20.4 and AHV-20201105.2286 on Lenovo HX7820 hardware.This combination is supported according to the Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix.However, on the Nutanix portal there now is a ‘Critical’ discovery:Cluster <removed> (UUID: <re-mo-ve-d>) is running AOS 5.20.4 and AHV-20201105.2286. This configuration may degrade functionality of new features and cause issues during cluster maintenance operations such as upgrades or cluster expansions.Install a qualified combination of AOS and AHV immediately to avoid issues that could arise from running an running an unsupported configuration.AHV-20201105.2267 is the recommended version(s) for AOS 5.20.4.If I check the C&IM, the AHV-20201105.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of May 2022.KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 1540 - [AOS Only] What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB 11663 - Unable to launch Prism Element from Prism Central due to missing "PrismUI.tar.gz" file after upgrade KB 1113 - HD

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 22-28, 2022.KB 12211 - Alert - A200803 - AZNameUpdateFailed KB 12219 - Disconnecting Availability Zone fails KB 12428 - Alert - A110026 - Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) - CloudAPIEndpointUnreachable KB 12445 - NCC Health Check: ahv_duplicate_secondary_ip_check KB 12699 - How to map a block to Rack after chassis or node replacement or after relocation

The expansion of cluster fails with an error log.Could anyone tell me how to solve it? <Detail>When I try to add a node to a cluster in the prism element, it fails with the error log below. Failure in pre expand-cluster tests. Errors: Failed to start foundation service to do network validation SSD tier on nodes [u'xxx.xxx.xxx.xx'] is not sized to accomodate expected metadata growth on cluster. Refer KB-8842 for more details. <Environment>As shown in the diagram below, the Nutanix nodes are created as one of the virtual machines on the ESXi.used version : ce-2020.09.16.iso  <What I have tried>・Improving the spec of SSDs in a virtual machine for the additional Nutanix node SSD1 : 32GB  → 64GB

I know this can be done with the NX hardware using the IPMITOOL utility pre-installed, but we’re starting to use HPE hardware and I wondered if anyone knew how to change the iLo administrator login password via cmdlet?  We’ve scripted this for NX line and looking to do the same with HPE’s as a part of our deployment scripting.

I want to connect the guest VM to the Internet, what should I consider?

I have provisioned a SQL database with 200 GB. ERA will mount the disks and distribute the files on different point points. I have Enabled auto extend on database level. what will happened if the mount points got full. Will it auto extend or do we need to extend by our self. 

I have some clusters where LCM propose some upgrade to STS version, but I want to stick to LTS. is there a way to disable some version so LCM display only “Enabled version”.BTW, there is a filter for disabled updates, so I guess there might be a way to disable some updates.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 15-21, 2022.KB 12020 - NCC Health Check: pc_backup_limit_check KB 12212 - Expand cluster pre-check - test2_1_foundation_network_validation KB 12715 - Understanding Your Hardware & FE Entitlements KB 13115 - Expand cluster or hypervisor bootdisk repair fails at imaging phase if clusters is running Foundation 5.2 KB 13133 - vCenter Enhanced Linked Mode

Hi,New Nutanix user here so please forgive me my ignorance. I created a new VM in Prism Element and then (using this guide) used the Convert to Template function in Prism Central. So far so good. However, the converted VM still shows up under VMs in Element/Central. Can I now delete this VM? (We’re running just one cluster.) info:AHV version Nutanix 20201105.2267Prism central: pc.2022.4 Kind regards,Thomas

Please your support, I have two nutanix servers each is 3 node cluster, how I can connect them so they appear as a single cluster, should I connect them via a physical switch? Second question is I have vSphere license which I want to install on the clusters, how should I do that?

Anybody has the correct guidance or URL from where i can download the ESXi 6.7 u3 customized image file for Nutanix NX-WDT series node to build the AOS 3 node cluster 

We are attempting to install the latest version of vmware tools across multiple clusters (12.0.0).  Currently it requires a restart of the host if upgrading to 12 via lifecycle man and a baseline.  However, if i do it manually via esxcli software vib update or install, it does not require an update.  When i try to push this out to one of our test clusters via a cvm and the command: hostssh ‘esxcli software vib update -d /vmfs/volumes/tehdatastore/Tools12/Tools12.zip’, it completes properly but times out and moves to the next host before the output stating it completed successfully etc, giving an error stating it timed out instead (to be clear, it does actually run against all the hosts properly).  Is there any way of adding a no timeout switch to the hostssh command (or perhaps just a larger timeout)?  Upgrade was verified using hostssh ‘esxcli software vib list | grep tools'.  Also within vcenter it now shows updates available to the vm’s etc.  So this doe

After update windows 10 in place, i can’t delete the balloon.sys file of nutanix drivers inside windows old; i can rename but not delete.Any idea?

Hi Guys,We have 3x Nutanix clusters in North America and Singapore all with daily alert as below:“The host (x.x.x.x) is not synchronizing with any NTP server. This might occur if none of the configured NTP servers are available or you are currently experiencing network instability determined by the high offset/high jitter.”TAC telling us have to replace with Linux OS based NTP services to resolve this issue.Is there any solution or workaround to make NTP sync with MS NTP properly eq. patching etc. ? 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 8-14, 2022.KB 12001 - NCC Health Check: dimm_eppr_check KB 12214 - Performing scans of Nutanix AOS with Tenable Nessus KB 13020 - Dell nodes Fail Foundation at the Preparing installer image phase with Error: Unable to establish IPMI v2 / RMCP+ session KB 13091 - How to control AHV node upgrade sequence and delay between node with LCM upgrades KB 13109 - p

We have received a new (Model: NX-TDT-2NL3-G7) 2 set of hardware with ESXI installed and we would like to add into new cluster, hence in the process of preparing foundation, we realized that IPMI IP address is not accessible, no networking issues and it may because CVM is not installed and configured properly and we finding difficulties to prepare these 2 hosts for separate VMware Horizon VDI Cluster. It would be great is any technician can assist us over the online session or step by step instructions would be also helpful.We do have an existing Nutanix Cluster with 7 Hosts, where Existing Nutanix Cluster : AOS version 5.20.3NCC: 4.4.0Foundation: 4.1.1Installed ESXi Host Version : VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-14320388Please share step by step or instructions and documents how to add the Hosts a and configure.

Hi everyone, I have made différents test to install Windows server VM either 2022 and 2019 specifically on scsi disk emulation, but I didn’t succeed. It always ends in a bsod or in a infinite wait for partitionning or writing to the scsi disk.however installing on sata is direct with no problems.I am using last virtio drivers from ISO here: https://fedorapeople.org/groups/virt/virtio-win/direct-downloads/latest-virtio/on AOS 5.20.So I may do something wrong, or use some bad drivers, so please if you’re able to give me directions to successfully install windows server on scsi disk please do.

Hello everyone!Just started playing around with the Nutanix Sizer and I am having issues creating a Citrix VDI Workload. No matter what setting is  selected, I am unable to save the changes. Above the webpage I get this error:“You can not add/edit advanced workload options for basic user”Am I missing something obvious here?

I want to ask about replaced hypervisor drive. Here is the machine Nutniax Node : NX-1065-G6 Default Hypervisor Boot Drive : Micron 5100 MMTFDDAV240TBC New Hypervisor Boot Drive : SSD WD Green 240GB 3D NAND M.2 SATA 2280 Question : is it compatible and working properly if the default replaced with new hypervisor boot drive ? Reference : Node Naming (NX-1065-G6). Only give information 2 x M.2 Device 240GB.

Hello!Are about to set up Infoblox (vNIOS) as a HA pair.An Infoblox article says:“When you deploy a vNIOS HA pair, ensure that the port connection allows for more than one MAC address per vNIC. For example, if you deploy a vNIOS HA pair in VMware vSphere, the port-profile to which the vNIOS HA and LAN ports connect should allow for more than one MAC address per vNIC. You can do this by changing the security settings of the port-group to accept "MAC address changes" and "Forged transmits," as illustrated in the following figure.”  What about Nutanix AHV regarding the above ?

Hello dear Nutanix community,Just wanted to check, does the IPMI port on NX servers offer a UI for server health monitoring/management and temperature/fan stats like iDRAC for Dell XC servers or HP iLO for HP?Thank you.

Long story short, W2016 server moving from HV to AHV. VirtIO drivers are installed (before migration) but whenever the machine boots after migrating to AHV, it's bsods with inaccessible boot device. If I go through the whole booting to recovery, deleting the driver and injecting the driver, it boots up but that's a lot of manual handling.When MOVE migrates to AHV it boots up as SATA drive then it seems to clone the disk and reattaches it as a SCSI drive. It boots to the desktop as SATA but then as a SCSI drive it fails, so the driver issue makes sense. The issue is why the drivers are not working when they're installed on the HV machine before migration and don't work after.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 1-7, 2022.KB 12749 - Steps to Unregister cluster from Prism Central with Nutanix Disaster Recovery (Leap) enabled for Async, NearSync and SyncRep Schedules KB 13072 - ipmitool give an error <-bash: !Ghijk: event not found> when trying to modify/set ADMIN password KB 13086 - Error: We couldn't find any driver. To get a storage driver click load driver KB 13093 - Nutanix Files: NFS Advanced Configuration for Multiple Clients

A traditional Nutanix cluster requires a minimum of three nodes, but Nutanix also offers the option of a two-node cluster for ROBO implementations and other situations that require a lower cost yet high resiliency option. Unlike a one-node cluster (see Single-Node Clusters), a two-node cluster can still provide many of the resiliency features of a three-node cluster. This is possible by adding an external Witness VM in a separate failure domain to the configuration (see Configuring a Witness (two-node cluster)). Nevertheless, there are some restrictions when employing a tw