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Nutanix Cluster automation

Hi, Does anybody using one touch automation for setup Nutanix cluster with hypervisor ESXi. Take IP's from DHCP for ESXi and CVM Please share if you got any info. Thanks!!

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Collector Security Guide

Collector SecurityNutanix takes a holistic approach to security process to ensure complete protection of customer environment and data. The Nutanix security development life cycle (SecDL) integrates security into every step of product development. All the features and functionalities of Collector Desktop Application and Collector Portal follow the strictest security guidelines.For additional details about the Collector Desktop Application and the Collector Portal, refer to the Collector User Guide and Collector Portal User Guide available at the Collector Documentation page.Collector Desktop ApplicationCollector is a desktop application that is run on Nutanix prospects and existing customer systems. The application connects to the prospect or customers' data centers, clusters, and hosts and collects the configuration and performance data. Since the application is connecting to the users' systems and pulling the information, this guide details the security measures that Collector has in

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Objects Browser

 The Objects browser is a User Interface (UI) that allows the users to directly launch the object store instance in a web browser and perform bucket and object level operations. This eliminates the steps of logging into Prism Central and launching the Objects service. The administrators use Prism Central to manage the object stores. When an administrator creates an object store, a default bucket (object browser) gets created. The static website hosting capability is already enabled on this default bucket. The Objects Browser UI is hosted on this default bucket is created  The administrator can share the object store URL with the user to access the Objects Browser UI. The URL can be formed using the Objects Public IP addresshttp://objects-public-ipaddress/objectsbrowserYou can use http or https to access the web-browser Administrator workflow:The administrator needs to perform the following steps to grant access to the Objects Browser to a particular set.To grant access to Objects Brows

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Albert Mendoza
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Albert MendozaNutanix Employee
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New KB Articles Published on Week Ending July 17, 2021

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 11-17, 2021.KB 10745 - Configurations required for DoDIN APL KB 11289 - How to upgrade from DoDIN APL configuration KB 11423 - License violation Alerts on Postpaid Prism Central KB 11608 - Improper network configuration with Microsoft NLB server may result in high percentage of Rx errors on host NICs KB 11655 - PostgreSQL Basic Commands KB 11693 - Acropolis leadership change on AHV clusters with 5.19.x or newer with LACP may lead to unexpected link flap KB 11701 - X-Ray: S3 Object Storage Microbenchmark test fails when object size is increased KB 11711 - 1-click ESXi Hypervisor upgrade on Single node cluster hangs when vCLS(vSphere Clustering Service) VM is not powered off KB 11714 - Post AOS upgrade to 5.20.0.1 bond_mode shown as "none" in manage_ovs outputNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

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Where is the v3 API for migrating disks?

https://www.nutanix.dev/reference/prism_central/v3/api/vms/postvmsuuidmigratedisks/ describes an API to migrate disks as vms/{uuid}/migrate_disks.  But the API is not available in AOS 6.0.  I got the following response{     "message": "The requested URL was not found on the server. If you entered the URL manually please check your spelling and try again." } The swagger definition from the cluster does not contain the endpoint either even thought the definition “migrate_disk_input” is defined. The cluster has the following information:            "config": {                "software_map": {                    "NOS": {                        "status": "INSTALLED",                        "version": "6.0",                        "software_type": "NOS"                    }                   },  ...                 "build": {                    "commit_id": "e13b03b321a1559f5de846520509a20f93289b8d",                    "full_version": "el7.3-release-fraser-6.0-stable-e13b03b321a1559f5de84652

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ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
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Configuring Network Switch Information

About this taskTo track and record networking statistics for a cluster, the cluster requires information about the first-hop network switches and the switch ports being used. Switch port discovery is supported with switches that are RFC 2674 compliant. Switch port discovery involves obtaining statistics from the Q-BRIDGE-MIB on the switch and then identifying the MAC address that corresponds to the host. Such discovery is currently best-effort, so it is possible that, at times, an interface might not be discovered.Before you beginBefore you configure network switch information in the Prism web console, configure the corresponding SNMP settings on the first-hop network switch.About this taskTo configure one or more network switches for statistics collection, do the following:Procedure Click the gear icon in the main menu and then select Network Switch in the Settings page.Note: Network switch configuration is supported only for AHV clusters.The Network Switch Configuration dialog box ap

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Nutanix DR solutions Workflow

Nutanix DR solutions Workflow The following flowchart provides you with the detailed representation of the Nutanix DR solutions. This workflow helps you to understand and decide on which DR strategy is best suited for your environment. This workflow covers all the three DR strategies: Protection Domain based DR Leap (on-prem to on-prem) Xi Leap (on-prem to xi cloud services) DR solutions of Nutanix   Nutanix provides disaster recovery in Prism Element Web console with the following Recovery Point Objective (RPO) ranges.  Async DR: 60 minutes or greater Scheduled with an RPO greater than or equal to 60 minutes are referred to only as asynchronous scheduled and use full snapshots. Schedules can be configured in terms of hours, delays, weeks and months   NearSync DR: Between 1 and 15 minutes Schedules with an RPO between 1 and 15 minutes are called NearSync schedules. In reality, these scheduled are also asynchronous schedules, but they have 15 minute or lower RPOs.

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Cisco Switch for small deployment - which one to use ?

Hello,I´m new in this forum. In fact I´m new in the Nutanix world. We currently have a traditional VMWARE cluster with traditional FC SAN Storage and Catalyst 3850 switches (7 servers).We are planning to replace it with a brand new solution based on NUTANIX (with 6 nodes or so) but using VMWARE as hypervisor. The question that arise are:We need to install 2 new “top of the rack” switches for NUTANIX connections. If using Cisco (and taking into account our proposed cluster size) which one could we use ? I mean, Catalyst 9300 are ok ? Or they have to be the more expensive Nexus ?  To reduce initial costs we are planning to keep the Cat 3850 to act as coreswitch and also because we need to conect other devices, but we need to ones for the new nodes. Our current VMWARE Servers have 2 x 10G connection for DATA/VEEAM BK and 2 x 1G for vSphere MGMT/vMotion. In order to cope with data traffic but also with “disk sinc” traffic, should we provide the new nodes with  4 x 10G (2 for DATA/veeam BK

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Azure to Nutanix Migration using Move

Hi,Having an issue migrating a Windows Server 2019 OS into Nutanix. We are using version 4.1.0 of Move and we have successfully migrated one VM already. However this 2nd VM fails with a “Query Changed Page Ranges” failed message. It appears to be able to create a snapshot of the disk but then fails after a while. Any ideas?

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DAG and nutanix replication

hello all i am in this tight situation. as i have AOS PRO license i only can do is Async replication but i really need to make the RPO 0 so, i am thinking to leverage application level replication. for example in exchange application I want to leverage DAG replication method to be able to sync both main and DR site with RPO=0so my question if i do this configuration and take out my exchange server from any protection domain, do you think Nutanix would still give me support if the replication process have a fault after time?

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P2V | Physical Linux and Windows to AHV | Free Tools

Hi All, Would like to seek your advice/recommendation way to migrate physical linux/windows to Nutanix AHV via free tools ONLY without purchase third party tools or additional costs. Just wondering is there any tools that available for us or any alternative way without any additional costs?  We have some requirements;5 physical linux servers. 5 physical windows servers. Appreciate it in advanced. Regards,John

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Enhance request of Nutanix Sizer updated notice mail

Hi Nutanix Sizer tool development team,If you have possible, Could you enhance of notice mail function when the Sizer tool updated ?

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Albert Mendoza
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Albert MendozaNutanix Employee
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New KB Articles Published on Week Ending July 10, 2021

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 4-10, 2021.KB 10171 - NCC Health Check: 1gbe_check KB 11000 - NCC Health Check: async_and_paused_vms_in_recovery_plan_check KB 11022 - Alert - A160134 - File Server CVM Port Unreachable KB 11072 - NCC Health Check: static_portchannel_check KB 11342 - NCC Health Check: dimm_sel_check KB 11548 - Alert - A160080 - FileServerGenericAlert KB 11586 - LCM API Guide KB 11613 - ESXi AMD Secure Encryption Virtualization (SEV) on AOS KB 11642 - Deploying Move agent or adding Hyper-V cluster to Move returns error "Invalid credentials or WinRM not configured" KB 11654 - Patroni Upgrade KB 11657 - A database server that is patched outside Era appears as a candidate for the same patch update KB 11664 - ESXi takes a long time to start up due to a HBA error KB 11671 - Xi Frame - FGA ScriptingNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

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CVM Multi homing issue traffic flows from 10g

I have AHV 5.11 cluster, i configured br1 with CVM eth2 interface attached and followed all the instructions via cli to configure CVM multihoming to segregate 1g and 10g network. My issues is inspite of attaching cvm eth2 interface to br1, i am not able to access cvm eth2 via br1 network but i can access it via br0.

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Cluster Health Down

I attempt to start a nutanix cluster service with command nutanix cluster. But the status is on waiting as below. any idea? I cant login to the nutanix web consoleWaiting on <ip address> (Up, ZeusLeader) to start:There is clusterhealth down on one of the node

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Creating a new VM under exsiting project

Hi all,I’m trying to use terraform to create VMs on our Nutanix cluster and I’ve encountered issues when trying to define the project name i’m trying to assign the new VM to.I have created a variable that contains the project name and set the project_reference on the machine to point to that variable.When running terraform plan everything seems to be working as expected but when i apply the terraform, the terraform crashes with the following error:│ Error: Plugin did not respond││   with nutanix_virtual_machine.tf-build-project-test[0],│   on main.tf line 75, in resource "nutanix_virtual_machine" "tf-build-project-test":│   75: resource "nutanix_virtual_machine" "tf-build-project-test" {││ The plugin encountered an error, and failed to respond to the plugin.(*GRPCProvider).ApplyResourceChange call. The plugin logs may contain more details.╵Stack trace from the terraform-provider-nutanix_v1.2.0.exe plugin:panic: interface conversion: interface {} is nil, not string Has anyone encountere

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How to Edit RVTools before import to Sizer

I’m attempting to import an RVTools into the Sizer tool. I want to exclude some of the VMs before import by editing the RVTools file.  When I edit the file and try to import, I get an error “Host cluster cell not found”There are more than 300 VMs, so I can’t import on the VM level and just disable the individual workloads there.Any ideas or methods anyone would suggest to editing the RVTools beforehand? Thanks in advance!

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CVM is not uplinked to any 10Gbps

We have a lab setup with 3 Nutanix nodes in one cluster with model NX-1175S-G6, this Servers have a 2x10GbE ports on each and we have a network switch which is unfortunately Gigabit Ethernet switch DGS-1210-52MP (does not have any 10 GbE switch available right now) for our lab setup.  and I want to bridge successfully an active-active bond and LAG,LACP will be enabled and configured on the switch . and I want to make sure the speed is negotiated and to able to work with 1 GbE. Also has a need a no more massage  from ncc check “CVM is not uplinked to any 10Gbps nics on bridge/vSwitch br0”. So any expert advice will be taken seriously. Thanns in advance for your suggestions. 

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AHV GPU Series | Installing Nvidia grid  virtual GPU manager 

AHV supports GPU-accelerated computing for guest VMs. You can configure either GPU pass-through or a virtual GPU.   Let us say you have an AHV host with GPU compatible hardware and looking for a simple way to install the required drivers.  Nutanix recommends a specific method for installing the Nvidia GPU host driver in AHV hosts.  The method involves a script which is used for installation or upgrade of all the hosts in the cluster.   Go through the following document to understand the process in-depth    Installing AHV GPU Drivers    Have questions regarding the usage of the script?    What will happen if one of the nodes doesn’t have a GPU?   What will happen if the driver version is different on one node than the rest of the cluster?   How can I install the driver onto the new nodes only, without affecting the currently running nodes? Can I install different versions of the driver onto different nodes of the cluster?     The following knowledge base article can help you to

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X-ray Overview

X-Ray is an automated testing framework and benchmarking application for enterprise-grade data centers. The X-ray application is a downloadable virtual machine (VM) with a user interface and complete documentation. Once installed, X-ray can test and analyze several different systems and report comparable information for your use. X-ray provides test scenarios for hype converged platforms that demonstrate variations in areas such as performance, data integrity and availability. Note: X-Ray is a tool for test environments and not intended for production environments.X-ray runs one test scenario per target at a time.Do not install the X-Ray VM on a cluster that you are using as an X-Ray test target, or a cluster that you are planning to use as an X-Ray test target. X-ray test scenarios: Availability: X-ray tests how a hype converged solution tolerates a node failure during a workload. X-Ray can measure how the failure of one node affects the availability of the whole system. Performa

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maazNutanix Employee
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Nutanix Objects

Nutanix Objects is deployed on top of the Nutanix platform, it can take advantage of AOS features like deduplication, compression, replication and more. Nutanix Objects is a software-defined Object Store Service. This service is designed with an Amazon Web Services Simple Storage Service (AWS S3) compatible REST API interface capable of handling petabytes of unstructured and machine-generated data Supported Configurations:The solution is applicable to the configurations below (list may be incomplete, refer to documentation for a fully supported list):Core Use Case(s): Backups Big data/analytics Management interfaces(s): Prism Central (PC) Hypervisor(s): N/A - Runs on Nutanix MSP (Dependent on MSP supported Hypervisors) Upgrades: LCM The figure shows the high-level mapping of the conceptual structure Bucket An organization unit exposed to users and contains the objects (think share to a file on a file server) Object The actual unit (blob) of storage and item interfaced with via the

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Prism Central Limitations with Image Managment

I need some help for understanding Prism Central Image Management. When I read Prism Central Guide (Limitations) I don’t understand “During the copy operation, cluster A becomes unavailable.”This comment in Prism Central Guide mean that can’t use “cluster A” Prism Element ? Also that mean All acting is suspend like VM Provisioning Operation in "cluster A"?I want to know side effect and exactly what act is occurred using “cluster A” when becomes unavailable. Please help me.Thank you for your help :)

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Unable to retrieve CVM from v2 / v3 API

We’ve been recently exploring upgrading some code that interfaces with our Nutanix prism element from the v1 API to v3 and we are having issues retrieving the CVM from the v2 or v3 of the API.Looking at the response from the: /vms/ call on the v1 API we receive 10 total entries which include our CVM:v1 vms API resultv1 vms CVM resultYet when we make the equivalent API call on versions 2 or 3 we are only receiving 9 entries back and the result set does not contain the CVM:v2 vms API resultv3 vms API resultAfter searching through the API documentation nothing immediately stands out as an appropriate endpoint to get the CVM.  My question then is how do we retrieve the CVM when using the v3 or v2 API?

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Encryption-Files

Files supports AOS software encryption and in-flight message encryption for SMB3 shares.You can only apply AOS software encryption to files by activating it through Prism. Refer to the file release Notes to ensure that you are running a compatible version of AOS. SMB3 Message Encryption: After enabling message encryption, the file encrypts messages on the file server side and decrypts them on the client side (only on the new connections for the share). Clients that do not support encryption (Linux, Mac, windows 7) cannot access a share with encryption enabled. Authentication: Active Directory with Kerberos provides secure authentication. File supports the following Kerberos encryption types. Advanced Encryption Standard 128 with the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication code and Cryptographic Hash Function SHA1  Advanced Encryption Standard 256 with the Keyed-Hash Message Authentication  Message Authentication code and Cryptographic Hash function SHA1 (AES-256-HMAC-SHA1) Rivet cipher

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Updating directory Services and Authentication - Files

To update the directory services configuration, do the following:Procedure: Go to the File Server dashboard, click the File Server tab, select the target file server and then click Protocol Management Click Directory Services In the Directory Services window, select the protocols you want to use and complete the fields for the selected protocols. You can select SMB, NFS or both. Each protocol contains more fields to complete.      4.  When all the fields are correct, click the Update button. Authentication:Depending on the primary and secondary protocols configured for your file server, access and authentication configuration vary. File servers using SMB protocol must configure Active Directory (AD). File servers using the NFS protocol can use Lightweight Directory Access Protocol (LDAP), AD, or unmanaged authentication services. LDAPWhen you configure LDAP as the authentication service, Files uses Netgroups to control client access. The Files LDAP setup is based on the RFC 2307 st

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