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I need to upgrade an dark site cluster from AOS 5.1.5 to 5.20.1.1.   It looks like I need to upgrade from 5.1.5 to 5.5.9.5 to 5.10.11.1 to 5.15.6 to 5.20.1.1.   Will I need to upgrade the AHV matched to each version after I upgrade the AOS?

Persistent file handles facilitate continuous availability (CA) for SMB shares. During the disruption of service, SMB shares remain continuously available by using the persistent file handles and the high-availability features. Persistent file handles reduce the period of data unavailability by automatically reconnecting users to the file service in-use before the disruption. Files store open lock information on persistent volume groups available for every FSVM in the cluster. During a fail-over, the fail-over FSVM can access the volume group. Persistent file handles let clients wait to reconnect without notifying the user about the connection failure. As a result, disruptions are seamless to users and applications. During a lock protection interval, Files does not prevent NFs clients from accessing the file. Files only prevent SMB clients from accessing files during the disconnected state. The periodic handler cleans up stale locks for the disconnected persistent file handles every 24

I have a few systems to rebuild from baremetal. They are all secure boot enabled and to disable this I have to go onsite to change a jumper.Foundation dosen’t seem to be working which I am assuming the phoenix boot just gets skipped as its not uefi enabled. Is there a version or a process I can use to bare metal build these systems. I can easily install esxi manually if required.Just trying to avoid a trip into a covid zone to change a jumper if i can avoid it.

Hi, I’m new to nutanix upgrade. I would need to upgrade my HPE nutanix server firmware. Yesterday I’ve perform inventory and the LCM upgraded to 2.4.2 I checked the server firmware such as bios still remain same? Am I missing some steps?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 1-7, 2021.KB 10904 - Prism Central DR troubleshooting KB 11812 - Permissions for Restricted Access from Move KB 11821 - LCM Perform Inventory task failed with error "Peer's certificate issuer is not recognized" KB 11828 - SMI-S Nutanix storage provider registration fails using the "setup_hyperv.py" script after SCVMM reinstallation KB 11833 - Cannot register PE cluster to Prism Central due to DNS issues KB 11844 - SATADOM upgrade via LCM fails with error - 'Failed to upgrade 3IE3 - Open /dev/sdg fail' KB 11848 - How to Check an MD5 Checksum on desktop/laptop (PC/MAC) KB 11849 - Objects - MSP Cluster Certificates not auto-rotated prior to MSP 2.3Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

We have 2 Nutanix clusters running with the ESXi Hypervisor. We’re using Metro availability to replicate datastores\containers between clusters. We’d like to replicate some of the VMs that reside in these Metro enabled containers over to a potential 3rd site.  We were thinking to use Async replication for this.Is this possible and is it supported?I ask this because in the “Conditions For implementing Asynchronous Replication” guidelines there is a condition that states “Multiple protection domains cannot protect the same VM.  Configure one protection domain to protect a VM”.

If there is a RF2 cluster and it suffers a drive failure, is it normal to see “resiliency status” on critical mode while the drive data is being rebuild?

I am new to Nutanix.  Is there any video available to learn the installation of Nutanix cluster from scratch? Also how to add a new node or recover a node from failures?

Let's say you want to shut down a CVM for maintenance, firmware upgrade or any other reason, and when you run "cvm_shutdown -P" you get this error: "StandardError: Cannot connect to genesis to check node configuration status" If you have an older version of AOS (5.5.x or 5.6.x) then the shutdown script on your CVM might need a small modification, you can contact Nutanix support and an engineer will edit the file on the spot, or you can upgrade the AOS to a newer version which has the fix. If you have a newer version and you want to shutdown a node in the cluster, make sure that you follow the correct shutdown process depending on your hypervisor, here are the instructions for each: AHV, ESXi, hyper-v or Citrix. You can also check out KB-3270 for the cvm_shutdown script.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of July 2021.KB 6153 - NCC Health Check: default_password_check and pc_default_password_check KB 5505 - Long Term Support (LTS) and Short Term Support (STS) Releases (Applicable only to AOS) KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 4639 - How to place CVM and host in maintenance mode KB 1540 - [AOS Only] What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB 3741 - Nutanix Guest Tools Troubleshooting Guide KB 8378 - NCC Health Check: Check Interface Configuration Files KB 4409 - LCM: (Life Cycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 2896 - Nutanix BMC Manual Upgrade Guide KB 3263 - How to Enable, Disable, and Verify LACP on AHV hosts KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 1438 - Shutting down Nutanix cluster running VMware vSphere for maintenance or relocation KB 6937 - Manual upgrade procedure for Host Boot devic

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 25-31, 2021.KB 10788 - NCC Health Check: pc_backup_sync_check KB 11741 - Delete user from Prism Project when the AD account is deleted KB 11774 - Imaging platforms that support UEFI boot mode only using Nutanix Foundation KB 11782 - Projects page on Prism Central 2021.5.0.1 web UI may hang on load KB 11799 - One-click CVM Memory upgrade stalls on VMware Cluster if vCenter port 443 is blockedNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of there articles.

In addition to data compression and data deduplication — features that are expected nowadays to be present on any storage aware platform Nutanix AOS also offers Erasure Coding. For workloads with cold data present (no write within past 7 days), when enabled, EC encodes a strip of data blocks on different nodes and calculates parity. In the event of a host and/or disk failure, the parity can be leveraged to calculate any missing data blocks (decoding). In the case of DSF, the data block is an extent group and each data block must be on a different node and belong to a different vDisk. Once parity is computed, the data block copies are removed and replaced with the parity information. Workloads Recommended for Erasure Coding Write once, read many (WORM) workloads. Backups. Archives. File servers. Log servers. Email (depending on usage). Workloads Not Ideal for Erasure Coding Anything write- or overwrite-intensive. VDI. Because of data-avoidance technology like intelligent c

Hello there, I am running AHV 5.5.5 after trying to upgrade BIOS and BMC through LCM, one of my nodes failed, then its not booting up, keeps booting in pheonix, tried disabling maintenence mode for the node with no luck, and i was trying to force boot into host via "python reboot_to_host.py" but the script doesnt seem to exist. Any help ?

Hi All, Would like to check is there any docs available which related to Nutanix storage container design and best practices? Assuming i have web, apps and db vm running inside AHV. Isn’t recommended to create new dedicated storage container for each VM or VMs group based on web, apps and db instead of using default storage container? Example:Web storage container Apps storage containerDB storage container Any down side having multiple storage container? John

hello I lose the connection with a single node when I upgrade the BIOS and BMS from BIOS Update To: PB43.103BMC Update To: 7.10only IMPI can access, the host is downI have nutanix 8035 G6 can you advise to fix this issue! 

Hi, Is there any best practices for nutanix with vmware on the container compression. Currently the containers is created with post-process compression. Is it better to choose inline or disabled it. My nutanix nodes are hybrid disk.

Hello i am a developer who develops through nutanix api i Want to know about api roadmap i found out by chance that urlhttps://www.nutanix.dev/2019/01/15/nutanix-api-versions-what-are-they-and-what-does-each-one-do/ when i read that page, i feel curious about api roadmap in nutanix      1. when v2.0 api is advanced, v0.8 or v1.0 is deprecated?      2.  when i want to use migrate or snapshot function, i have to use v0.8 api? will some functions(like migrate) continue to be categorized in v0.8, v1.0 and v2.0?  and if i get some document about v0.8 api, i want to get them i wait for your answer  thank you     

 Most of our customers upgrade their infrastructure once every couple of months and this guide helps our customers understand  how to upgrade and what to expect from the process. In older versions of AOS, upgrades were done using “one click” or “upgrade software”. With LCM available in newer versions, the upgrades are much simpler and straightforward. Here’s the documentation  to understand pre-requisites of LCM and how LCM works:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Life-Cycle-Manager-Guide-v20:Life-Cycle-Manager-Guide-v20 The LCM works on one-node at a time and if the upgrade proceeds to the next node if the scheduled node is successful in upgrading to the target version. The LCM upgrade tasks can be monitored from “LCM” in Prism UI. There is essentially no downtime required for the user VMs during the upgrades.  With regards to concerns about performance, it’s always best to schedule maintenance window for the upgrades, especially with the cluster with 1G NIC ca

Hi All, I’m sorry because couldn’t find related k/b on mixed nodes compatibility/requirements in details.  Just wondering current latest platform supported for mixed nodes with different OEM hardware model in same cluster? For example: Existing we have 3 x HPE DX360 in same cluster and would like expand with different hardware model/family such as Dell XC family/NX family or HPE higher model like DX380 in same cluster? Appreciate it in advance. John.

Is anyone experiencing random RDP issues to VMs on Nutanix?I’m experiencing random authentication errors when connecting to Nutanix VMs.It’s not the RDP setup as sometimes it works.Is there an setting on Nutanix that might be causing this?

The Prism Central admin user is created automatically, but you can add more (locally defined) users as needed. To add, update, or delete a user account, do the following:Note: To add user accounts through Active Directory, see Configuring Authentication. If you enable the Prism Self Service feature, an Active Directory is assigned as part of that process (see Prism Self Service Overview).Procedure In the Settings menu available from the gear icon, select Local User Management (see Main Menu Options).The User Management dialog box appears. Figure. User Management Window Click to enlarge   To add a user account, click the New User button and do the following in the displayed fields: Username: Enter a user name. First Name: Enter a first name. Last Name: Enter a last name. Email: Enter the user email address. Password: Enter a password (maximum of 255 characters).Note: A second field to verify the password is not included, so be sure to enter the password co

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 18-24, 2021.KB 10962 - Post PC-DR steps KB 11394 - Foundation of nodes fail with "Timeout (5400s) in waiting for events" due to network issue caused by the configuration of LACP on physical switch. KB 11516 - LCM: Minimum Required Versions for Dell Environment KB 11599 - Running X-Ray workloads benchmarking on a Nutanix Objects cluster KB 11709 - Duplicated Delete Run Actions may cause Calm deployments to fail and Ergon to crash with OOM errors KB 11736 - AHV vGPU Console Cursor Drift KB 11737 - 1 Click ESXi upgrade may fail if /scratch is corrupted KB 11753 - VM console is distorted for UEFI Ubuntu VMs booting into recovery mode running on AHV KB 11756 - VMs on the AHV hypervisor may restart unexpectedly during an AOS upgrade KB 11761 - Adding/Changing AD Service account leads to "validation failed, username/password contains invalid characters" message in rare cases KB 11763 - All user VMs will not be powered on auto

Hello,I have 2 questions about Storage:Can someone please explain the Deduplication option when setting up storage containers. Is this necessary or recommended? What is the purpose of a Volume Group? Currently we use the whole default storage container for creating disks and dividing out storage to servers. Recently some users have wanted to reserve a few TB for video use and storage. I created a new “video” storage container tapping into the default container for the space. So when I attach the disks to the servers, I pull from this specific container. Would creating and using a Volume Group be better? I don’t understand the purpose of it.ThanksBrent

Can you help on  the Intel Corporation 82599ES 10-Gigabit SFI/SFP+ Network Connection nic driver upgrade

Can we migrate VM from KVM to Nutanix AOS using MOVE feature?