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As the Nutanix Life Cycle Management (LCM) platform evolves, more firmware entities are added to the module. The latest addition are the NICs associated with Nutanix hardware.Starting in LCM 2.3.4, firmware updates for Mellanox and SuperMicro NICs on AHV and ESXi are supported. Currently, Hyper-V platforms and Intel/Silicom NIC cards are not supported.For more information about this feature and software requirements, take a look at KB 10073 found on the Support Portal.

I upgrade AOS 5.15.4  and i have AHV older version I need Upgrade AHV after by LCM I Click LCM and loading… long time and show massage server error i have question  ? LCM Need access internet  ?

Hi,I would like to configure anti-afinity on on the VMs. I checked this only able to configure thru command. To configure the rules, does the VMs need to be powered down?

As Nutanix is constantly striving to be an API driven company and exposing more of its core functionality via API’s as well as improving integration with tools such as Ansible and Terraform, we hope you have been making the most of it. For example, did you know how to check the status of NGT and the NGT communication link using API’s? It is easily obtainable using the v3 REST API exposed from your Prism Central. Issue a GET request to https://<PC_IP_address>:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/<vm_uuid> Filter through the response to find a block similar to this.        "guest_tools": {        "nutanix_guest_tools": {          "available_version": "1.90.1",          "ngt_state": "INSTALLED",          "iso_mount_state": "MOUNTED",          "state": "ENABLED",          "version": "1.1.2",          "enabled_capability_list": [            "VSS_SNAPSHOT"          ],          "guest_os_version": "windows:64:WindowsServer2008R2Enterprise",          "is_reachable": false        }      }       

Hello, I am trying to collect some VM performance data from Prism element. I have noticed that some stats do not keep history for more than 5 minutes.   Example: controller_io_bandwidth_kBps vs. controller_read/write_io_bandwidth_kBps   GET 'https://{IP}:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/vms/{vmid}/stats/?metrics=controller_io_bandwidth_kBps&startTimeInUsecs=1589462400000000&intervalInSecs=300'   "statsSpecificResponses": [     {       "successful": true,       "message": null,       "startTimeInUsecs": 1589462400000000,       "intervalInSecs": 300,       "metric": "controller_io_bandwidth_kBps",      "values": [         8106,         5500,         8404,         5618,         12793       ]     }   ] } GET 'https://{IP}:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/vms/{vmid}/stats/?metrics=controller_read_io_bandwidth_kBps&startTimeInUsecs=1589462400000000&intervalInSecs=300' {   "statsSpecificResponses": [     {       "successful": true,       "message": null,       "startTimeIn

If the clusters are related with prism central (so I should use v3), Can i use v2 to actions like: manage NIC, Attach/Detach Disks, manage snapshots from API v2?Is recovery plans is the same as snapshots here? I want to create jobs for automatic snapshots, but I do not see thios possibility in v2I am using the same account for api v2 and v3 actions, in production environment with my own IP, it will be the same host? It is specified in API Documentation, but I want to be sure if the host for both will be the same - eg. nutanixtest.com/v2… and nutanixtest.com/v3…Thanks!

HPE® ProLiant® Hardware CompatibilityThis document specifies the hardware, software, and firmware that the Nutanix platform requires to run on HPE® ProLiant® servers. Supported Hardware Models Hardware Hardware Supported Models HPE® Gen10 Servers HPE® ProLiant® Servers DL360 Gen10 8SFF DL380 Gen10 12LFF DL380 Gen10 24SFF HPE® Apollo® System Apollo® R2600 XL170r Gen10 24SFF HPE® Gen9 Servers HPE® ProLiant® Servers DL360 Gen9 8SFF DL380 Gen9 8SFF DL380 Gen9 12LFF DL380 Gen9 24SFF  Note: HPE® and HPE® ProLiant® are registered trademarks or trademarks of Hewlett Packard Enterprise Company. All other brand names mentioned herein are for identification purposes only and may be the trademarks of their respective holder(s). HPE® ProLiant® Gen10 Servers Software and Firmware Compatibility for DL3x0 Gen10 HPE® ProLia

Nutanix cluster requires three nodes minimum but Nutanix also offers the option of two-node cluster. By configuring external witness VM in a separate failure domain to the configuration provides  resiliency features of a three-node cluster.Requirements: Controller VM minimum requirements: 6 vCPU and 20 GB memory Replication factor (RF): RF2 spanned over two nodes and RF4 for metadata on SSDs over two nodes. RF4 for metadata helps during a node failure scenario to quickly transition the healthy node to run in single-node mode with the metadata remaining disk fault tolerant. (Metadata in a two-node cluster is typically small, so the storage need for four copies is modest.) Drive failure effects: one node + one SSD failure (on other node) = read-only mode. Guidelines: Two-node clusters are supported only on a select set of hardware models. See KB 5943 for information about supported models. supported model The upgrade process in a two-node cluster may take longer than the usual proc

I could get a ballpark idea when the next LTS be designated. Seems like its been awhile. I would like to get off the STS train.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of February 21-27, 2021.KB 9288 - Alert - A1102 - PhysicalDiskAdd KB 10533 - Alert - A200403 - Non Compliance with Host Affinity policies. KB 10535 - [ Karbon ] Alerts stay in firing state in a Karbon Cluster UI KB 10815 - VMDK disk image uploaded to Prism shows as "Inactive" with no size KB 10819 - [Karbon] Karbon UI not loading after scaleout PC upgrade to pc.2021.1 - "upstream connect error or disconnect/reset before headers. reset reason: connection failure" KB 10830 - vCenter /storage/seat partition becoming full KB 10832 - Nutanix Move | Migration Plans Disappear after Move-3.7.1 Upgrade KB 10840 - LCM: SATA DRIVEs firmware fails with error: 'EnvironmentModule' object has no attribute '__getitem__' KB 10850 - Physically relocating a block within an online clusterNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of February 2021.KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] – G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1540 - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM is full KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 4409 - LCM: (Life Cycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 4158 - Alert - A1104 - PhysicalDiskBad KB 1113 - HDD/SSD Troubleshooting KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 5582 - NCC Health Check: idf_db_to_db_sync_heartbeat_status_check KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 4639 - How to place CVM and host in maintenance mode KB 6153 - NCC Health Check: default_password_check and pc_default_password_check KB 8932 - NCC Health Check: pc_vm_resource_resize_check KB 1863 - NCC Health Check: sufficient_disk_space_check KB 3741 - NGT: Nutanix Guest Tools Troubleshooting Guide KB 4273 - NCC Health Check:

LCM simplifies Nutanix IT infrastructure life cycle operations by consolidating software and firmware component upgrades into a unified control plane. Prerequisites·   It's recommended to have a cluster with at least three nodes to perform a normal rolling hypervisor upgrade.·   The 2-node case isn't well supported and might require extra steps to enable rolling upgrades, like installing and configuring a Witness VM.·   The 1-node cluster upgrade is also supported but requires LCM 2.2.3 or newer. ·       LCM 2.0 is considered old and not recommended for the AHV upgrades, instead one has to use the legacy "Upgrade Software" method in "Settings".·       Starting LCM 2.2.3, AHV upgrade is supported, both single node cluster and regular cluster, but it only support el6 based AHV upgrade.·       Starting LCM 2.3, AHV upgrade is fully supported, single node, multiple nodes cluster, upgrade from el6 based AHV to el7 based AHV, el7 based AHV to el7 based AHV, UEFI el7 based AHV to UEFI el7

The Discoveries menu in Portal is a new feature that allows customers to view critical issues in their environment with a more holistic approach. Using Nutanix Insights, Portal will provide this view based on Field Advisories, constant health checks, end of support equipment, etc.The Discoveries Details View provides the background, analysis, and corrective actions that can be done to remedy these issues. This will also give you the option to create a case based on the specific issue/topic.For more information, take a look at the “Discoveries Menu” in the Support Portal.

If you have cloned multiple VMs from a single VM (master VM), you can enable NGT and mount the NGT installer simultaneously on multiple VMs by using the master VM image.Before you beginEnsure the following before you perform this task: Install NGT on the master VM. Clone the required number of VMs from the master VM. Shut down the cloned VMs. Perform the following procedure to enable NGT and mount the NGT installer simultaneously on multiple VMs by using the master VM image.Note: After you perform the following procedure, you do not need to separately install NGT on the cloned VMs.Procedure For every cloned VM, log on to the Controller VM and run the following command.ncli> ngt mount vm-id=clone_vm_id Replace clone_vm_id with the ID of the cloned VM. To find the ID of the cloned VM, run ncli> vm list name="<clone-vm-name>" command. Note the value of the Id field as clone_vm_id.<ncli> vm list name="<clone-vm-name>"Id                        : 00058a81-64bb-2

The iSCSI Data Services IP address is used to provide iSCSI access to the cluster storage. It is primarily used by Nutanix Volumes, but is also leveraged by other products such as Calm, Leap, Karbon, Objects and Files. This IP address is owned by one CVM of a cluster at a time, with ownership changing among the CVMs as needed to ensure that it is always available. To note, the iSCSI Data Services IP address CVM owner does not necessarily correlate with the CVM that currently maintains Prism service leadership.To find the current CVM acting as the iSCSI Data Services IP address owner, simply obtain the IP address output from all of the CVMs (generally by using the “allssh ifconfig” command) and verify which CVM reports as having this address. To find when a ownership change has occurred, the Stargate service logs from each CVM can be filtered for entries regarding “eth0:2”.You can find more information regarding the iSCSI Data Services IP Address from the Nutanix Volumes Guide along wit

Great pleasure to say Sizer 5.0 is now liveTwo very big thingsCluster settings/cluster policy.  We always allowed you to edit the model list and set thresholds for cpu/ram etc that the cluster must meet.  Lot more now.  Mihn cpu speed.  Required networking.  Also added policy.  So you can state I want production, test/dev, or mission critical policy.  This gives you more rigor in the sizing as enforces best practicesMultiple recommendations  Sizer by default gives you the lowest cost solution.  That is there but now core optimized and storage optimized too.  So solution with more cores or more storage that fits in cost range you state.  Good to have multiple options

I know that this question has been asked in this forum a few years back but I wanted to see if the answer changed since the newer releases of AOS.  In my case, I’m running AOS version 5.15.4 LTS and found that our 7-node cluster was configured for RF3 - although most of our containers are RF2 (the exceptions being the “NutanixManagementShare: and “SelfServiceContainer” containers).Since most of our containers are only RF2 I’m not too concerned about extra overhead but was curious if AOS now supports the switchback from RF3 on the cluster. 

From the AHV Best Practices document,  live migration network is in host management network(br0).In the network segment enviroment, backplane is isolated in another network which maybe has high bandwidth, does the live migration has any change under this condition? or Live Migration network can do some setting like ESXi vmotion network?

Hi. I have a question while using Xi Frame.If I want to use the List active session and stop  session functions among the Xi Frame functions, what privileges should the administrator at least be given to use them??For detailed functions, please check the red underlined area in the attached photo. 

Hello,I'm trying to setup four nodes on Lenovo HX3321 with vm foundation, but the vm foundation is not start.We have  verify the address vm foundation is correctvm foundation and IPMI same network can you help !!thanks. 

Hi all,How many blocks can be added in one rack? I mean min and max numbers.Thanks in advance.

Hi Nutanix Community, We often wonder what is the real storage capacity available on a Nutanix cluster. We have a three node cluster, in RF2. In Prism Element main page, under "Storage Summary", I see : 20.87TiB free (logical) of 22.37 TiB https:// Data Resiliency is OK. (green) Which one of the following statements is correct ? I can fill my storage up to 22.37 TiB without losing the data resiliency (=I can lose a node without losing data). I can fill my storage only up to 66% of 22.37Tib (= 14.76Tib) without losing the data resiliency Thank you 🙂

I have a cluster of 6 nodes including 3 nodes 1065-G5 and 3 other nodes 1065-G6 which run a hyper-v.I wanted to update from Aos 5.10.5 to 5.17.1 through LCM but I am having issues with the processors.I therefore want to proceed node by node in maintenace mode.Can you give me the procedure for updating the aos by proceeding by this method?

after  change IPMI i found warning IPMI not match I see the reference https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Hardware-Admin-Ref-AOS-v5_17:ipc-ipmi-ip-addr-change-t.html how to step genesis restartI must stop cluster before ?i can run command genesis restart when cluster start ? Thank for support 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of February 14-20, 2021.KB 9314 - Nutanix-Auth-FAQ KB 9866 - NCC Health Check: ergon_checks KB 10310 - Alert A801101 - L2StretchDeletionFailure KB 10574 - Pre-Upgrade check: test_vmd_node_esxi_upgrade_versions_compatible KB 10657 - Discrepancy between Memory Capacity on Prism and Hyper-V KB 10720 - Modify snapshot expiration date and time for Xi Leap snapshots KB 10758 - PDF Report generation fails on Prism Central after upgrading to pc.2021.1 KB 10762 - Prism Central reports showing "No Data" when multiple filtering rules are applied to filter specific entities KB 10765 - AHV upgrades from 20170830.x to 20190916.x and 20201105.x on Dell clusters fail with "Failed to run 'yum remove -y DellPTAgent dcism': 1" error message. KB 10776 - NGT installation fails on Linux VM with Permission denied error KB 10787 - LCM pre-check failing with Failed while performing pre_actions err: Unable to boot cvm [xx.xx.xx.xx] into ivu. KB 10789 -