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Hey I’m trying to install a new cluster with 8 nodes, but on the Nodes fane in Nutanix Foundation I can only choose A,B,C and D.How do I select the remaining 4 hosts? Using Nutanix Foundation v5.7.1 on Windows /Mads

Hi All ,Greetings !!! Single node cluster run very good and works like charm .Now i wanted to create an 3 node cluster . LAB Environment: Host Hardware Specs: CPU: Logical Processors: 24 Processor: Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2640 0 @ 2.50GHz Sockets: 2 Cores per Socket: 6 Hyperthreading: Enabled Memory: 159.94 GB Hypervisor: VMware vSphere ESXi-8.0U3e-24677879-standard(Free Edition) Setup: 3-node cluster with Nutanix Community Edition vSwitch Configuration (on all ESXi hosts): Port Group > Security Settings: Promiscuous Mode: Accept MAC Address Changes: Accept Forged Transmits: Accept VM Configuration (per node): CPU: 8 vCPUs (Hardware Virtualization Enabled) Memory: 36 GB Disks: Disk 1: 128 GB (Thin) Disk 2: 500 GB (Thin) Disk 3: 800 GB (Thin) SCSI Controller: VMware Paravirtual Boot Options: Changed from UEFI to BIOS Advanced VM Configuration: disk.EnableUUID = TRUE IP Configuration:Node AHV IP CVM IP 1 192

We are in the process of refining our upgrade procedures with LCM 3.1 and reviewing the Upgrade order for a dark site method. We see a line for ‘Upgrade Cluster Maintenance Utilities’. The latest version for CMU appears to be 2.0.3 back in 2020. Is the utility still in use or is this being phased out?

Hi Team,I have created an vm, but when i trying to update VM its failed. Initially created VM without Guest tools NGT using API as we are using DHCP its taking 1-3 minutes to get IP Address assigned. then i have trying to update the VM with Guest tools in my payload, its failing, Error is internal error. Any suggestion pl. here is my payload im trying to update {    "metadata": {        "categories_mapping": {         },        "kind": "vm",        "use_categories_mapping": true    },    "spec": {        "name": "test-vm",        "description": "test-vm",        "resources": {            "is_agent_vm": false,            "num_sockets": 1,            "memory_size_mib": 4096,            "num_vcpus_per_socket": 1,            "power_state": "ON",            "hardware_clock_timezone": "UTC",            "disk_list": [                {                    "device_properties": {                        "device_type": "DISK",                        "disk_address": {                            "ada

I installed a single nutanix CE node in a nested VMware VM but the CVM doesnt start.The nested VM Option was checked when configuring the VM and the disk.EnableUUID parameter was set to TRUE. Allocated virtual Hardware: 10cores; 52GB RAM; 16+200+500GB drivesThe installation was successfull, however the CVM wont start with the following errormessage:error: internal error: qemu unexpectedly closed the monitor: 2025-04-29T07:57:29.088493Z qemu-kvm: unable to map backing store for guest RAM: Cannot allocate memoryThe xmldump shows the following:<domain type='kvm'>  <name>NTNX-be7cea29-A-CVM</name>  <uuid>26b6df8b-f03e-482e-b12c-a8e76e767bc1</uuid>  <memory unit='KiB'>16777216</memory>  <currentMemory unit='KiB'>16777216</currentMemory>  <memoryBacking>    <hugepages/>    <nosharepages/>  </memoryBacking>  <vcpu placement='static' cpuset='0-4'>4</vcpu>  <resource>    <partition>/machine<

what the difference between Nutanix snapshot & backup ?

Hi Team,I have a 5 cluster which are connected to Prism central, right now i have disk images published in one of the cluster, i want to publish this image to other 4 clusters using image placement policy. can someone advise and share sample pl

Hi All, I am trying to set up a 3 node cluster in Nutanix CE 2.1 but I don’t seem to be able to get past the creation of the auth certificates, my set up is as below: Dell PowerEdge R7515 2U Rackmount Server1 x AMD EPYC 7H12 64Core 2.6GHz CPU512GB (8x64GB PC4-3200AA-R) DDR4 RAM6 x 1.6TB SSD PCIe NVMe Gen 4 2.5" Dell Enterprise Hot-Swap SSD - used for DataPERC S150 Software Controller for NVMe Drivesx24 way Backplane for up to 24 x 2.5" PCIe NVMe Hot Swap DrivesDell BOSS Controller Card w/ 2 x 240GB M.2 SATA SSD - used for AHVBroadcom 5720 1Gb Dual Port Onboard LOM (2x1GB RJ45 Ports)Broadcom 57414 Dual Port Mezz LOM (2x10/25GB SFP28 Ports)1x 960GB PCIe NVMe Gen 4 2.5” - used for CVM these are connected to a Dell SF-S5148-ON 25GB switch which is then uplinked to a Sonicwall TZ470 firewall. the issue I seem to be seeing is that when creating the cluster, the CVM is unable to connect to the control master and then is unable to copy the certificate files via SCP, I have checked communicatio

We should type ‘I Agree’ when shutting down a cluster, so if is it possible to shutdown a cluster with script, or any method to bypass the manual confirmation?

We have eight XC nodes installed, each one connected to two 100Gbps switches ( 200Gbps btw two switches) by using two 100Gbps MLNX CX-6 network adapters.  AHV and switches configured with LACP (Active-Active). After installation, we ran bandwidth with iperf:AHV to AHV could reach to 188Gbps ( 1 port with 20 threads) CVM to CVM was very close to 90Gbps (The total BW always was about 88Gbps, even we used multiple ports with multiple threads)So CVM can only use the bandwidth of one port of lacp for traffic?

I’m trying not to need to re-image a node, but the networking does not seem to be cooperating.Here is the error I’m getting:Errors in cluster networkingBond configuration is not consistent across nodes. No bond found on host:192.168.86.70, but present on host:192.168.86.170Here is .170[root@NTNX-895b5886-A ~]# ip -4 a1: lo: <LOOPBACK,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 65536 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 inet 127.0.0.1/8 scope host lo valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever10: br0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UNKNOWN group default qlen 1000 inet 192.168.86.170/24 brd 192.168.86.255 scope global br0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever15: virbr0: <BROADCAST,MULTICAST,UP,LOWER_UP> mtu 1500 qdisc noqueue state UP group default qlen 1000 inet 192.168.5.1/24 brd 192.168.5.255 scope global virbr0 valid_lft forever preferred_lft forever[root@NTNX-895b5886-A ~]# [root@NTNX-895b5886-A ~]# ovs-vsctl list bridge

I currently have a Quantum Scalar i3 tape library with 4 drives. I need to add 2 more drives to the library in Veeam. We bought a new SAS card, and have not yet installed it into the tape server. When I do, and connect the 2 new drives to it, I am unclear as to what I will need to do in Veeam to get it to recognize that there are now 2 more drives in the library, so I can add them to the correct media pool. Will it automatically see them?

What would happen if my 3 nodes cluster suddenly lose the 2 nodes. Can i still retrieve my data? The 2 node goes into phoenix.

I am curious why the running “ovs-vsctl show” on a AHV host does not show any “bond” whereas the “ovsdb-client dump | grep -i lacp” command and the Prism GUI show lacp is present (the switch too)?Here is the GUI viewfull “ovs-vsctl show” output from AHV host:[root@NTNX-895b5886-A ~]# ovs-vsctl show84a00041-1b46-44f0-99a1-01a0b1a66713    Bridge br.mx        Port br.mx.u.br1            Interface br.mx.u.br1                type: patch                options: {peer=br1.local.d}        Port br.mx.u.br2            Interface br.mx.u.br2                type: patch                options: {peer=br2.local.d}        Port br.mx.u.br0            Interface br.mx.u.br0                type: patch                options: {peer=br0.local.d}        Port br.mx            Interface br.mx                type: internal        Port br.mx.d            Interface br.mx.d                type: patch                options: {peer=br.microseg.u}    Bridge br.dmx        Port br.dmx            Interface br.dmx       

I tried installing Nutanix CE. Created boot USB with rufus, booted and the installation starter. I can see NIC are looking for IP addresses, and one of the interfaces receives an IP from DHCP server.After some time I get the error message with starting a service:[FAILED] Failed to start Systems Management Device DriversAfter that the installation hang up to a shell with some Python related error: SyntaxWarning: “is not” with a literal. Did you mean “!=”?I know this is just a warning message, but I have there several lines of error ending with:AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘dev’ The server is R630 with two CPUs, 4x NIC (Broadcom and 2x 10Gb Intel (where the network cable is plugged in). 

Hi Team,im planning to use packer to build image, but this will upload to one specific cluster in the Prism, eventhough it having multiple cluster connected, it wouldnt be sharing. is there a way we can achieve share the images from one cluster to other cluster, if all the cluser in the one prism central. i have ref https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Prism-Central-Guide-Prism-v5_17:mul-images-manage-pc-c.html, pl let me know is there any api we can use to do ?--M

I’m getting failed when I try to move some physical NICs back into a virtual switch.Will I need to do something manually?Here is the error:Failed to apply Virtual Switch config on canary node, error: Failed to apply virtual switch config on the host:8f1ac7f1-fb84-4ec5-ade4-96365016f570. update_bridge_bond ERROR: Adding bond:[{'bond_type': 'balance-tcp', 'interfaces': ['eth3', 'eth4'], 'lacp': 'active', 'mtu': 1500, 'name': 'br1-up', 'other_config': {'lacp-fallback-ab': True, 'lacp-time': 'fast'}}] to bridge:br1.Exception("Command failed: ovs-vsctl add-bond br1 br1-up eth3 eth4 bond_mode=balance-tcp lacp=active other_config:lacp-fallback-ab=True other_config:lacp-time=fast: b'ovs-vsctl: cannot create a port named br1-up because a bridge named br1-up already exists\n'",)My goal is to move eth3 and eth4 into a br1-up under vs1.

In this single-node hardware environment (24C/384GB/4x800GB) I have installed Nutanix CE 2.1 which work fine.  I then wanted to test Prism Central and deployed it in size x-small which turned out to be too small (could not do all fun stuff).  How do I increase it to size small instaead?I tried to just add the extra cpus and memory to match the size of small, but that was not enough, it still said that it was x-small.  Then I tried to remove PC to create a new larger one, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought.  The VM wasn’t possible to delete without deregister but the deregister was blocked but a objects-lite database which wasn’t possible to remove!  It just referred to KB-17159 which literally only said “Contact Nutanix support”…  But this is CE and I’m just a partner playing around without support…Any procedure for size upgrade of Prism Central?  (I searched in the portal but failed)

Can anyone provide suggestion/feedback on creating Nutanix Deployment Checklist?

Hi Team,we are currently using v3 version of rest api, is there any way to get the storage containers in the cluster ?--Mohammed Azfar

I have a question. We are migrating from VMware to AHV. While we’ve been running VMware on top of Nutanix for years, now we’re using AHV instead of ESXi.On ESXi I had a number of VM templates for different OSes. I’m unclear on how to do the same under Nutanix. I have a working VM that want to convert into a template. On VMware, the sysprep step was kicked off by the “Create a VM from this template” option, when using a Customization configuration . Meaning I didn’t have to manually ever run sysprep, and the sysprep application was not needed in the template itself. Sysprep was run and invoked by the vSphere customization script.How do I do the same in AHV? IOW, I want to just “Create VM from template”. Do I have to run the sysprep command manually myself, before I convert the VM to a template? Or does the customization step do that? If so, where do I upload sysprep so that the customization step has access to it?https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide

I have installed Nutanix Community Edition but cannot complete the Next authentication.I have configured the IP of the CVM and the external IP of the cluster.The CVM can resolve the name of www.nutanix.com.I can log in to my.nutanix.com, portal.nutanix.com, and next.nutanix.com. However, when I enter my email address and click "Get Started" at the following URL, I receive the message below and cannot proceed: "It seems your My Nutanix account is not activated, please go to my.nutanix.com to complete the process"https://www.nutanix.com/products/community-edition/registerI have already created an account and can log in freely. Is there anything additional I need to do?

I’m running Nutanix CE and need Move to migrate from ESXi—how can I download it without a serial?

Nutanix Compatibility matrix shows that they support the next version of VMWare but there is no 1-click upgrade. I am running on HPE machines and we have been burned in the past where if we use an “off the shelf” ESXi .iso from VMWare it breaks the linkages from VMWare to Nutanix.  We can only use an HPE branded (drivers included) VMWare .iso so that the Nutanix tools (vsan and VAAI) work.  Broadcom has taken over VMWare they do not supply HPE branded .iso for upgrades according to the Broadcom case I opened. Nutanix does not supply upgrade paths for VMWare according to the Nutanix case I opened.HPE does not integrate with Broadcom anymore according to the HPE case I opened. How do you upgrade your VMWare deployment on a Nutanix linked Prism Central without a full rebuild?