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 Nutanix Clusters delivers a hybrid multi cloud platform addressing the pressing need for a single platform that can span private, distributed, and public clouds so that you can manage your traditional and modern applications using a consistent cloud platform.Nutanix Clusters has features such as operational simplicity, seamless application mobility, and cost efficiency needed to run applications in private or multiple public clouds and reduce the operational complexity of migrating, extending, or bursting your applications and data between clouds.Nutanix Clusters extends the simplicity and ease of use of Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure (HCI) software as well as the full Nutanix stack to public clouds such as AWS.You can modify, update, display, hibernate, resume, and delete Nutanix clusters running on AWS by using the Nutanix Clusters console. Nutanix Clusters console Updates The service that is responsible for provisioning, maintaining underlying infrastructure and making confi

 Prism Central (PC) administrators with the "Prism Admin '' role have full access to Karbon and its functionalities. Performing most karbonctl operations requires admin privileges. PC admins that do not have the "Prism Admin '' role (Cluster Admin and Viewer) can only access Karbon to download the kubeconfig and cannot perform any other administrative tasks. See "User Management" in the Prism Web Console Guide for steps on assigning roles.Nutanix requires configuring Karbon users for a directory service in Prism. See Security Management in the Prism Web Console Guide for directions on configuring a directory service.After setting up and testing your cluster, configure role-based access control (RBAC), see Kubernetes documentation for reference. Accessing Locked nodesKarbon protects all nodes in a cluster. You can access nodes in a Kubernetes cluster using an ephemeral certificate, which expires after 24-hours. Perform the following steps to get a certificate. Procedure In the Clusters

Xi Infrastructure ServiceAlong with the infrastructure required to support the recovery of on-prem applications, Xi Cloud Services provides the functionality that you require to run the application in the cloud until you can perform a failback. This functionality, made available as Xi Infrastructure Service, is designed to enable you to address application scaling requirements when the primary availability zone is being recovered from a disastrous event.The configuration tasks described here are specific to Xi Cloud Services. To perform on-prem infrastructure tasks, such as VM and category management, you must continue to use the on-prem Prism Central instance. For information about these tasks, see the Prism Central Guide. Entities MenuThe entities menu provides access to all the entities in Xi Cloud Services. An entity is an object type such as a VM, image, floating IP address, or virtual private cloud (VPC). Virtual Private Cloud Management Floating IP Addresses Management Vir

Creating a Project in CalmYou create a project to map your provider accounts and define user roles to access and use Calm.Ensure that you configure the provider accounts that you want to add to your project.  Procedure Click the Projects icon on the left pane. The Projects page appears listing all your existing projects. Click the +Create Project button to create a new project. The Create Window appears. 3.  Enter a name for the project in the Project Name field.4. Enter a description for the project in the Description field.5. (Optional) Enter an admin for the project in the Project Admin field.The project automatically adds you as a Project Admin when you create it. You can add more users in the subsequent steps of project configuration.6. Check the Allow Collaboration check box to allow project users to collaboratively manage VMs and applications within the project.The Allow Collaboration check box appears when you add your first user to the project. By default, the Allow Collabor

hi Friends, We have a 3-node Lenovo SR530 with IPMI IPs set. We are trying to install and Setup the Cluster remotely (vpn). Below are the details of IPs,XCC IPs - 172.31.199.x (all 3 nodes of same subnet)AHV IPs - 172.31.199.x (all 3 AHVs IPs of same subnet as XCC)CVM IPs - 192.168.5.x (All CVM IPs with thier default IPs) Problem:I have installed Foundation Applet 5.1 and while running on my laptop, its not able to detect the nodes. Any idea on what to check? The other way suggested in one of the forums was execute the cluster create command in one of CVMs. But all the CVMs have same IPs (192.168.5.2). Should I change the IPs of all CVMs with unique IPs matching with AHV and XCC Subnet IPs and then execute cluster create command? How can I know the CVM IP address from the AHV cliFoundation Applet error messageJava Web Start 11.311.2.11Using JRE version 1.8.0_311-b11 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VMJRE expiration date: 19/2/22 12:00 AMconsole.user.home = C:\Users\KishoreSalipalli-------------

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of November 14-20, 2021.KB 11994 - Xi Frame - Audio issues Echo / Delay KB 12075 - Performance benchmarking with Fio on Nutanix KB 12297 - VM Power ON/OFF operations done via the Nutanix AHV Plugin for Citrix takes several minutes to complete KB 12340 - Prism Central 1-click upgrade or pre-upgrade does not show the progress KB 12343 - LCM IVU: Fetch In VM Update (IVU) images fails if http protocol is blocked in the cluster KB 12352 - SNMP stops working due to high CPU usage (100%) for snmpd after a node is rebooted KB 12373 - SNMP user information is deleted after expanding cluster KB 12376 - Dark site LCM updates fail with error "Could not resolve host: download.nutanix.com"Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

There could be scenarios where LCM (Life Cycle Management) update operation was initiated, and then we need to cancel it in between due to any of the following reasons: 1) LCM operation takes more time than the scheduled maintenance window2) LCM operation was initiated by mistake, and so we want to cancel it soon Starting LCM 2.4.0.3 and later versions, we can now cancel or abort an ongoing LCM update operation using the "Stop Update" feature available on the LCM page via Prism. Whenever this feature is used in LCM, it sets a cancel intent in the Nutanix cluster, which tells LCM to stop the update at the next safe point. The important point is that the update may not be canceled immediately after the cancel intent is invoked since LCM stops it at the next safe point. Hence, we will have to wait until the update reaches the next safe point. This safe point is determined by the LCM framework, which depends on the phase at which the cancel intent was set. Kindly refer to KB-4872 to know m

 To replicate entities (protection policies, recovery plans, and recovery points) to different on-prem availability zones (sites) bidirectionally, pair the sites with each other. To replicate entities to different Nutanix clusters at the same site bidirectionally, you need not pair the sites because the primary and the recovery Nutanix clusters are registered to the same site (Prism Central). Without pairing the sites, you cannot perform DR to a different site.  To pair an on-prem site with another on-prem site, perform the following procedure at both the sites.Procedure Log on to the Prism Central web console. Click the hamburger icon at the top-left corner of the window. Go to Administration > Availability Zones in the left pane. 3. Click Connect to Availability Zone.Specify the following information in the Connect to Availability Zone window.   Availability Zone Type: Select Physical Location from the drop-down list.A physical location is an on-prem availability zone (site). To

Hello, I have a 3 node 1065 G6 cluster running AHV VMs. I currently have six 6TB EXOS drives and want to expand capacity by replacing them with 12TB EXOS drives. Nutanix says that this is not supported, but has anyone replaced drives to expand capacity? I have no money in the budget for another node. Thanks for any info. Jim

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of November 7-13, 2021.KB 11979 - HPDX unavailability of SPP upgrade under LCM | Manual SPP Upgrades KB 12252 - NVD - Recovering Calm on AHV in a Different Network Subnet After a DR Event KB 12316 - Era - rc.local service fails on a provisioned Oracle DB on some Linux versions KB 12319 - CVM may fail to reboot on Trimode connected HPDX Gen10 Plus platforms KB 12321 - Files upgrades and FSM requirements KB 12328 - Monitoring cluster recovery process after power outage KB 12331 - SQL monitoring service stops after Prism Central IP is changed KB 12338 - SQL monitoring service may show instances as 'Disabled' KB 12339 - AOS upgrade to 6.0.2 stalls as eth0 interface on the CVM fails to come UP after a reboot KB 12341 - Hyper-V: After upgrading to AOS 6.0.1 or higher the cvm_shutdown -P script fails to shutdown the CVMNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

In Nutanix cluster, Life Cycle Manager (LCM) is used to track current software and firmware versions of all entities in a Nutanix cluster and is also used to perform certain software and firmware updates on this cluster. It consists of a framework and a set of modules for inventory and update. In order to fetch these modules, LCM connects to Nutanix Portal (download.nutanix.com) URL by default. However, in scenarios where the Prism Element (PE) cluster has no direct access to the internet, default Nutanix Portal URL option cannot be used for LCM since it depends on internet connectivity. In this case, prior to LCM 2.4.1.1 version, the only available option was to set up a local dark-site web server so that LCM can pull software/firmware bundles from this dark-site web server. However starting with LCM 2.4.1.1 version & above, LCM allows direct ingestion of certain software/firmware bundles using the 'Direct Upload' option in LCM. So, if you are at a dark site where the cluster does

Welcome to License ManagerThe Nutanix corporate web site includes up-to-date information about AOS software editions.License Manager provides Licensing as a Service (LaaS) by integrating the Nutanix Support portal Licensing page with licensing management and agent software residing on Prism Element and Prism Central clusters. Unlike previous license schemes and work flows that were dependent on specific Nutanix software releases, License Manager is an independent software service residing in your cluster software. You can update it independently from Nutanix software such as AOS, Prism Central, Nutanix Cluster Check, and so on.License Manager provides these features and benefits. Simplified upgrade path. Upgradeable through Life Cycle Manager (LCM), which enables Nutanix to regularly introduce licensing features, functions, and fixes. Upgrades through LCM help ensure your cluster is running the latest licensing agent logic. Streamlined web console interface for Prism Element and Pris

It can be found that, when using Nutanix Move to migrate older Windows VMs, an error is exhibited regarding a failure to install the Nutanix App Mobility device drivers and to check if the operating system is SHA2 compatible. This can be due to the fact that certain Windows operating system versions (such as Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008R2) do not natively support SHA2-signed drivers, which is the type of drivers that Nutanix Move uses.This condition can be overcome by: Ensuring that the operating system has all of the latest updates (which are available for it) installed Confirming specifically that Microsoft KB 3033929 is installed. More information regarding this can be found within the VirtIO 1.1.6 installation on Windows 7, Windows Server 2008 R2 knowledge base article.

I would like to know whether the Prism Central Instance can be created on public cloud like GCP ? If Yes, Please help me with a procedure.

This happens because the Windows Operating System does not have the appropriate drivers (VirtIO driver) to read the disk that has the operating system installed on it.     In a nutshell: 1- Download both VIrtIO and Windows ISO to the image store in the cluster (you can use prism “image configuration” or prism central Explore->images->add image”) 2- Mount both VirtIO drivers and Windows ISO as CDROMs for the guest VM with problem. 3- Power on the guest VM booting from Windows ISO CDROM, you will see an option called “Troubleshoot” 4- Choose the above option and go to command prompt 5- Get the list of mounted disk drives and navigate tot eh drive where VirtIO resides 7- Load the drivers: “drvload vioscsi.inf” 8- see that drivers are mounted now “wmic logicaldisk get caption” 9- exit and reboot guest Vm 10 After you login, go ahead and install the VirtIO MSI package   For more details please see: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000kAWeCAM          

Hello All,Due to an ongoing project; Yesterday I subscribed on 30 days trial of Nutanix Sizer. Everything till the creation of scenario went well but facing issues when I try to add workload into my scenario. Under Workload addition form, have entered and saved all required info but unfortunately workload is not adding into my scenario. Tried almost all options but no luck. Please advise and help to get it resolve.

Hi AllDoes anyone know what causes the data in the picture to be lost(CPU&MMemory)? 

I may be having a case of the stupids, but I am trying to find the PowerShell cmdlet that will let you pull information of categories assigned to a VM. I’m running the Get-NTNXVM cmdlet but I do not see the category listed for the VM. Additionally, when I run a Get-NTNXTag it returns “No data found”. Does anyone know how I can pull category info for VMs via PowerShell?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 31-November 6, 2021.KB 12160 - Restoring ESXi host configuration outside of Nutanix procedure, CVM may become orphaned resulting failed to power on the CVM KB 12169 - Disk Health Monitor FAQ KB 12251 - NVD - Reconnecting Calm Applications UVMs in a Multi-PC Setup After a DR Event KB 12253 - NVD - Synchronize Nutanix Flow Policies and categories between 2 Prism Central Instances KB 12264 - Qualys Scanning Guide for Nutanix Products KB 12271 - Nutanix Files - DNS record validation failed KB 12273 - Xi Frame - Cannot connect to CIM server KB 12283 - Bulk updates of Prism Central categories linked to Flow Microsegmentation policies may cause HA action and VM restarts on AHV KB 12287 - ICAP Client Populates Requests Header Incorrectly with AFS 4.0 KB 12290 - Uploading SSL certificates may fail with error org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs.PrivateKeyInfo cannot be cast to org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMKeyPairNote: You may need to l

I have successfully run Collector against our Prism Central which manages about 22 clusters.  It took a long time to run but after it was done, with no error messages, there was no data.  How can I start to troubleshoot this?  I did find this in the logs…. 2021-11-04 13:56:33,288  INFO:  connecting..2021-11-04 13:56:33,304  INFO:  Initializing data collection2021-11-04 13:56:33,304  INFO:  Collecting datacenter data2021-11-04 13:56:33,304  INFO:  Collecting vm data2021-11-04 13:56:41,018  INFO:  'NoneType' object is not subscriptable2021-11-04 14:05:19,187  INFO:  Invalid response while getting clusters2021-11-04 14:05:19,187  INFO:  "{\"Prism Central\":[\"0005a047-ec19-f45f-4962-ac1f6b3bd5cd\",\"00056880-2345-ae87-7622-ac1f6b61a91e\",\"000534cb-9366-4532-0000-00000000c24c\",\"0005883e-3aa8-a7ce-0000-000000028588\",\"0005b846-f7d2-6368-1cd9-3cecef19a428\",\"00058c64-2e36-5f32-0000-000000028204\",\"000538ca-9aa8-9183-2c4c-0cc47ac328b5\",\"0005b8ab-8d4e-03c1-59a3-3cecef19c0c6\",\"0005869

Hi!We have two Nutanix clusters running ESXi v6.7.0 with a Horizon 7 VDI environment on each.  We needed to be able to sync Horizon AppVolumes between the clusters via some common storage.The solution we were set up with was a FreeNAS VM on one cluster publishing an NFS share which was then attached to the hosts in both clusters.  We weren’t bothered about high availability as it’s not an issue if the replication of the appvolumes goes down sometimes as it’s only needed if appvolumes are being changed or their assignments to users is changing.After an NCC upgrade, Prism Element now flags up this external datastore as unsupported.  I’m struggling to find out from Support what the actual magnitude of risk is here to the stability of the clusters (especially when it comes to upgrading firmwares, AOS etc).Does anyone here have any thoughts on this situation please?Thanks for reading!

During VM creation  in nutanix ESXI, if we select the thin provisioning and submit the operation once , it shows thick provisioning if we see the disk settings. what will be the issue ?

When no DHCP server is available, or where creating a scope large enough for X-Ray VMs is not possible, use zero-configuration for self-assigned IP addressing. Zero-configuration networking is a standard for IP addressing where a host self-assigns an IP address. X-Ray uses IPv4. which uses the reserved addresses 169.254.0.0/16. This feature eliminates the need for manual IP address configuration or DHCP.  To use zero-configuration networking, configure the workload VMs and the second NIC of the deployed X-Ray VM to use the same layer-2 network. For ESXi, the .ova adds the second NIC automatically. For AHV, add the second NIC manually. The second NIC automatically picks up the zero-configuration settings when you add it, so no extra configuration is necessary. Enabling IPMI Discovery on ESXi Enable web-based enterprise management (WBEM) for IPMI discovery on ESXi  On ESXi 6.5, the IPMI discovery process is disabled by default, which results in unsuccessful connections during target crea

You can monitor the Mine cluster health and activity through Prism. To determine the AOS version of your Mine the cluster is running, go to About Nutanix option under user_name drop-down list in Prism main menu. Mine with Veeam DashboardThe Prism web console includes a custom Mine with Veeam dashboard specific to a Mine™ cluster, which appears by default when you first log on to Prism. To view this custom dashboard at any time, select Mine with Veeam from the pull-down list on the far left of the main menu.The custom dashboard displays the following eight information tiles (widgets): Cluster. The cluster tile provides quick visual indicators for the following components: cluster health (overall), Veeam implementation, Mine™ components, and storage capacity (available). Green indicates a healthy component, yellow indicates a warning condition, and red indicates a critical condition. Click the Launch Console link to open a Veeam console. Click the Mine Platform link to open the Mi

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 24-30, 2021.KB 12200 - Flow Microsegmentation Rules Are Programmed For VMs Not In Policy KB 12227 - Stargate service instability due to mixing NVMe and HDD KB 12257 - CVM or PC VM may exceed the thread count limit on the cluster, resulting in services crashing or connection to PE or PC failing with "Server Unreachable" KB 12267 - VM ownership is changed from "admin" to Source Cluster UUID after Cross-Cluster live migration KB 12278 - After upgrading scale-out Prism Central to pc.2021.9, reports may not work due to Vulcan service key migrationNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.