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The cloud connect feature enables you to back up and restore copies of virtual machines and files to and from an on-premise cluster and a Nutanix Controller VM located on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Microsoft Azure cloud. When a new cloud remote site is created, Nutanix will automatically spin up a single node Nutanix cluster in EC2 (currently m1.xlarge) or Azure Virtual Machines (currently D3) to be used as the endpoint.The Cloud Connect feature enables you to back up and restore copies of virtual machines and files to and from an on-prem cluster and a Nutanix Controller VM on the Amazon Web Service (AWS) or Microsoft Azure cloud. The Nutanix Controller VM is created on an AWS or Azure cloud in a geographical region of your choice. It is a single-node cluster with a 30 terabyte (

Hi everybody,I just found out that 531,82GB can be used from 960GB SSDs in a Nutanix cluster node. Using 1,92TB SSDs offer 1.22TB usable space.What about the 3,84TB SSDs. How much space can be used with these drives?ThanksDidi7

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of November 29-December 5, 2020.KB 9623 - NCC Health Check: cvm_network_error_check KB 9963 - NCC Health Check: host_boot_disk_uvm_check KB 10232 - Pre-Upgrade Check: test_duplicate_disk_ids KB 10375 - Nutanix Files : Windows clients error "Insufficient system resources exist to complete the requested service" KB 10379 - [Karbon] kubectl commands return "Forbidden" error for domain u

Protection Domain–Based Data Protection is configured using Prism Element. Nutanix supports several types of protection strategies including one-to-one or one-to-many replication. These strategies are as follows:Per-VM Backup. The ability to designate certain VMs for backup to a different site is particularly useful in branch office environments. Typically, only a subset of VMs running in a branch location require regular back up to a central site. Such per-VM level of granularity, however, is not possible when replication

Pre-requiste for ESXI Upgrade  Need to enable both HA, and DRS https://docs.vmware.com/en/VMware-vSphere/7.0/com.vmware.vsphere.avail.doc/GUID-1D8B1384-59A4-41E2-AF05-697FC06D9EF9.html When vSphere HA performs failover and restarts virtual machines on different hosts, its first priority is the immediate availability of all virtual machines. vSphere HA uses the virtual machine's CPU and memory reservation and overhead memory to determine if a host has enough spare capacity to accommodate the virtual machine. After the virtual machines have been restarted, those hos

Hello all, i have nutanix 3460 g7 4 nodes and also have disk and tape drives for backup and archival. to make it short is there any way that i can connect the disks and tape drives to the nodes so that i can make automatc backup and archival? 

When installing ce-2020.09.16.iso, I get an error about: hdparmStandardError Failed Command [hdparm -z /dev/sda] with reason [BLKRRPART Device or resource busy]My config is as follows:  - Intel PC (Optiplex 9020)  - USB disk with the .iso to boot from - A single Harddisk to do the installation onThis is reproducable on an Intel-NUC, exact the same issue..Now, I add an additional Harddisk (two HDs and one USB). Note that both HD’s are not carrying any nutanix data, format or whatsoever.  After the boot I get a different error:Phoenix: ISO is already mountedFATAL: Couldn’t find a hypervisor and an AOS installed, please package phoenix with a hypervisor and a AOS.  Please refer to Nutanix support portal for more information about this.My questions:Why do I get an hdparm error in the first place. When adding a disk, apparently to get around the hdparm error, I suppose that the ce-2020.09.16

Typically, while deploying a new Windows VM on AHV, the VirtIO driver ISO needs to be mounted to allow the Windows Setup to discover the associated vDisk. Therefore, for each VM that needs to be created, 2 ISOs need to be mounted (the Windows installation ISO and VirtIO ISO).In order to simplify and expedite the deployment process, the VirIO drivers can be injected into the Windows installation ISO to create a single customized ISO.The prerequisites for this process are the following tools/files:PowerShell Windows ADK (Deployment and Imaging Tools Environment) Windows installation ISO Nutanix VirtIO driver package (It is recommended to use the latest version which can be downloaded from Support Portal) Administrative privileges on your Windows workstation.For detailed steps and screenshots regarding this process, please review

Many users will create a Linux VM on their Nutanix AHV cluster using default installation options, then configure and install any appropriate applications or services within the VM, and then move onto other tasks. While this approach is certainly acceptable, many users are unaware that there are additional modifications that can be made to the Linux VM OS which can enhance the performance or the overall functionality of the VM.For example, there are several Linux kernel parameters which can be configured including “vm.overcommit_memory” and “vm.swappiness”. If leveraging iSCSI connectivity, there are several parameters that can be modified within the iscsid.conf file which can increase performance.Regarding disk usage, volume group striping can be employed using LVM to further increas

minimum_reqs.py The NICs are connected, not sure why its failing. Anyone knows? I have tried with foundation 4.6 and 4.5.4.2 . The Nics are connected an Intel with dell firmware 19.5.12. Existing cluster is running fine with same specs. 

Hi, I have questions.We are considering whether it can be operated with IPv6 in our IT infrastructure.So,I found that the prism element can be configured with an IPv6 address.　However, I didn't know if components such as Prism central support it. Can Nutanix configure IPv6 addresses?　Does Nutanix support IPv6?

SFP give us freedom of choice and granular control over the media being used in the network segment. Mix and match optic fibre and copper of various throughputs and lengths of the segment. Very convenient and flexible solution and easily replaceable SFP modules.  When troubleshooting issues or during maintenance, the hardware details of the SFP module plugged into a host NIC may need to be identified and verified. Typically the useful information is printed on the SFP label but who has the time for this. More importantly, it would mean taking the SFP module out and that means another maintenance window. Using ethtool on AHV and XenServer will help with retrieving information like vendor, model, part number, serial number, transceiver type, cable length, connector type, signal quality, and more. 

Do you often get confused between alert generated and Nutanix Cluster Check (NCC) failure?Here are some points to understand them both:Alert: Mechanism to report underlying issues in the system. NCC: Tool to check the cluster health and report alert if required. (If there is a NCC failure then it does not always generates an alert.) Three important sections of the above diagram:Notifications received - Cluster Health service.

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I have an old G3 block that need to be installed for a demo.And after lots of failed tries from Foundation installation, I ended up installing the node manually. But unluckily after creating phoenix iso file for AOS installation and mounting it to the node, an error occurred with message below:“Unable to match system information to layout module”Has someone seen this happened before?  

The latest release of X-Ray 3.10 has now been published and made available for download on the Nutanix portal here. Check out the latest updates to the Release Notes and Guide.X-Ray is a comprehensive infrastructure assessment solution, testing both the performance and resilience of hyperconverged infrastructure solutions.X-Ray is packaged as an easily deployable VM and uses realistic workloads paired with real-world scenarios to simulate the various workflows and events that typically occur during datacenter infrastructur

Hello Nutanix CommunityI have a VM that is running CCTV operations. I record multiple video streams in a high resolution and frame rate. Old files get deleted when the space is used up. How can I make sure that the SSDs are not being used for the recording to avoid them to get too many write cycles too fast?Kind regards,Ibinema

Two Node Cluster creation Failed  It says Unable to reach SVM Ip’s but SVM Ip’s both ping fine.

Hi All,Just after some advice.  I’ve run the default ‘Four Corners Microbenchmark’ against 2 x identical All Flash clusters and I get very different results and not sure why.The average random read IOPS differ by around 60k, and the random write IOPS around 10k. I know running the test on both clusters will not provide an exact match, but these results appear very different.  Please note these are both 2-node clusters, both are identical in specification so not sure if this matters.I also get the same on 2 x identical 6-node Hybrid arrays, random read IOPS differ by 200k and random write IOPS by 40k!The same X-Ray appliance was used on all clusters, using the default settings in the test itself.Just after a possible explanation to these queries, if somebody could be so helpful.Thanks very much.

Hi,I have 4x r740 servers (sized for vmware vsan) can we install and configure fully functional nutanix based hci cluster for production environment on it?Server specs are given belowDual processorx 18core256gb ram10 g mellanox adaptor1g LOM2X 960GB MIX USE SSD8x 1.2TB 10K HDDALL servers are connected with 10G dell 5000 series switches via sfp modules and cisco 9200 lan gigabit switches 

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of November 2020.KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] – G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 4116 - NX Hardware [Memory] – Alert - A1187, A1188 - ECCErrorsLast1Day, ECCErrorsLast10Days KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 1540 - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM is full KB 1113 - HDD/SSD Troubleshooting

Ubuntu Cloud Images are pre-installed disk images that are customized by Ubuntu engineering to provide Ubuntu Certified Images, Openstack, LXD, and other features in public cloud environments.Due to the pre-built image and customization the OS requires specific virtual hardware such as a serial port that AHV does not include by default. When trying to boot a VM on AHV from any of the Ubuntu Cloud images, the boot process stalls after loading the Btrfs module as the hardware is not there.This can be helped by customizing the VM manually using a combination of Prism and aCLI commands or by leveraging API calls.Download Ubuntu cloud image in .img format Upload as Disk to Prism Image Services Create a new VM and attach the disk created in step 2 as Type: "Disk", Operation: "Clone from Image Service", Bus: "SCSI" and for Image select the name of the uploaded image and

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of November 22-28, 2020.KB 8564 - NCC Health Check: robo_readonly_state_check KB 8566 - NCC Health Check: robo_cluster_witness_network_check KB 8567 - NCC Health Check: robo_cluster_nodes_ping_check KB 9100 - 2 node cluster upgrade with witness VM unreachable causes downtime KB 9736 - Unregistering hosting AOS/PE Cluster from Prism Central with CMSP Enabled

AHV creating disk with 4k physical sector size. I have a requirement to create 512-bytes sector size. Finding no options parameter with vm.disk_create. Is there any other way to achieve this requriement. 

I created a Project in Prism Central and assigned a bunch of users to it, expecting them to be able to provision their own VMs with cloud-init configs customised to their liking.I found this awesome example code https://www.nutanix.dev/code_samples/create-linux-vm-customised-with-cloud-init/ which shows it can be done with API calls, however, as a user in the Project, there does not seem to be any options in the PC UI that allow me to specify a custom script when creating a VM.Are custom scripts deliberately hidden when using Projects? How are my users supposed to customise their VMs?