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Any modern environments consist of multiple layers each of which contains multiple components. There are switches and routers, firewalls, physical server, application servers, applications themselves and, of course, users. Each of the components has logs of more than one kind, location and severity. All the components interact with each other directly or indirectly. I am certain you have found yourself in a situation where to establish a root cause you had to inspect logs of more than one entity. Establishing a timeline of events is always easier when the sources of the events’ clocks are synchronised and are located in one central location. While the clocks are handled by the NTP the centralised logs location is a syslog server or in this case a remote syslog server implying that it is separate to the origination of the logs. In addition to the benefits already mentioned, remote syslog server allows to access logs for the systems that are already dead, decommissioned or replaced. Nuta

These days I’m managing, for one of customer, the migration of its virtual infrastructure to a Nutanix AHV farm from an old ESXi. It has some old VMs, with Windows XP as guest OS, that have to be migrated in Nutanix. Those VMs have installed custom software that cannot be installed in newer versions of Windows because they have been written in old VB6, so my question are:Can they be migrated over AHV? If yes, can I manage the migration with Nutanix Move or there is another way?

Use the Data Services IP method for external host connectivity to VGs. For backward compatibility, you can upgrade existing environments non disruptively and continue to use MPIO for load balancing and path resiliency. For security, use at least one-way CHAP. Leave ADS enabled. (Enabled is the default setting.) Use multiple disks rather than a single large disk for an application. Consider using a minimum of one disk per Nutanix node to distribute the workload across all nodes in a cluster. Multiple disks per Nutanix node may also improve an application’s performance. For performance-intensive environments, we recommend using between four and eight disks per CVM for a given workload. Use dedicated network interfaces for iSCSI traffic in your hosts. Place hosts that use Nutanix Volumes on the same subnet as the iSCSI data services IP. Use a single subnet (broadcast domain) for iSCSI traffic. Avoid routing between the client initiators and CVM targets. Receive-side sca

Hi, I have 2 Blocks (2 Nodes each) Cluster. I just added 2 DIMM Memory (2 x 32GB) in 1 of my Node. I put 2 memory on slot P1-DIMMC1 and P1-DIMMF1Before Adding DIMMAfterr Adding DIMMAfter that i ran NCC and shows warning like thisAlert from Nutanix ClusterAm i did something wrong with the steps by steps? Since in PRISM, total memory has been increased and i thought it’s just fine.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of December 6-12, 2020.KB 10285 - Nutanix Files :- Alert "Error in updating CA Chain to file servers: Subtask failed for <FSVM Name>" KB 10322 - Alert - A200602 - MicrosegmentationControlPlaneFailed KB 10380 - Xi Leap: VPN troubleshooting guide KB 10400 - Mismatch in Prism Central End of Life alerts KB 10411 - [ Karbon ] K8s clusters using XFS storageclass might encounter mount issues before CSI 2.2 KB 10424 - Performing HYCU Restore workflow for VM protected by Protection Domain or Protection Policy causes DR service crash issues KB 10427 - Identifying CVE and CESA patches in Nutanix ProductsNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

In many ways, identifying the problem is harder than solving it. At least in IT.In order to better understand the performance of Nodes in a cluster and User VMs, ESXTOP for ESXi hypervisors and TOP for Linux OS based machines provide us an immediate birds eye view of the performance of the host. It is important to understand the output as a tool towards problem-solving. Here I aim to discuss scenarios you might need to isolate and troubleshoot High CPU observed at the Hypervisor or User VMs.ESXTOP : This command when run lists live CPU statistics specific to the Node the command is run on.esxtop outputIf you press “M” it shows you memory metric and “N” for network etc. As Always ‘H’ is for help. We will focus on a few CPU statistics:The output will show you all the VMs and the following metrics corresponding to them.Some Important ones discussed below:%USED, %RDY, %CSTP , %MLMTD and %SWPWT Note:To convert CPU ready % value  to ms(milliseconds)CPU ready % = ((CPU summation ready value i

PCI device enumeration is one of a large number of concepts that transitioned from the physical world. Originally, being a bus and a slot number now, of course, is a virtualised concept.When OS boots during the POST process the local devices are enumerated (checked for presence and size). If an expected device is found at the PCI slot that is a failure of the test. In AHV deployments, the Controller VM (CVM) runs as a VM and disks are presented using PCI passthrough. That means that if AHV PCI devices enumeration has changed CVM may not be aware of the fact and attempt to direct I/O to the devices that are no longer accessible via known PCI bus and slot. This can happen after hardware replacement on an AHV host and the CVM will not boot or will boot with only part of the expected devices accessible. Compare PCI slot numbers of SCSI controllers on AHV host and the CVM and update the enumeration of the devices on the CVM. For more details look at KB-7154 AHV | CVM might not boot after ha

Anyone have an issue where you are not able to apply labels anymore to VMs after upgrading to 5.18.1.1 AOS and Prism Central pc-2020.9.0.1?  I am unable to apply labels after upgrade.

Hello,I’m trying to stop the cluster before shutting down and powering off the CVM Nodes. I’m using the following command to attempt to stop the cluster, however, it doesn’t seem to work, the command and the output is pasted, please tell me what am I doing wrong?$nutanixclusterstatus = Invoke-VMScript -VM $cvms[0] -GuestCredential $nutanixlogincreds -ScriptText {/usr/bin/echo 'I agree' | /usr/local/nutanix/cluster/bin/cluster stop} -ScriptType Bash ScriptOutput-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------|  /usr/bin/echo: /usr/bin/echo: cannot execute binary file|  2020-12-05 04:30:17 INFO zookeeper_session.py:143 cluster is attempting to connect to Zookeeper|  2020-12-05 04:30:17 INFO cluster:2716 Executing action stop on SVMs 10.65.241.247,10.65.241.248,10.65.241.249,10.65.241.246|  2020-12-05 04:30:17 WARNING genesis_utils.py:279 D

Nutanix Objects OverviewNutanix Objects™ (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. Objects addresses storage-related use cases for backup, and long-term retention and data storage for your cloud-native applications by using standard S3 APIs. You no longer have to introduce an external, separately managed storage solution. Objects is deployed and managed as part of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud OS.You can manage objects by using Prism Central or the S3-compatible REST APIs after an administrator has authorized the applications and users to access buckets accordingly.For more information on Objects architecture, refer to Nutanix Bible.Usage of ObjectsFollowing are examples of solutions you can implement by using Objects: Backup – You can integrate Objects with the backup applications such as

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 (TB) disk attached to the node, with a usable disk capacity of 20 TB.The following figure shows a logical representation of a “remote site” used for Cloud Connect: Since a cloud based remote site is similar

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 users assigned the "Cluster Admin" or "Viewer" role KB 10384 - How to find who powered off/on a VM running on AHVNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

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 is built on traditional storage arrays. In these legacy environments replication is performed at a coarse grain level, entire LUNs or volumes, making it difficult to manage replication across multiple sites. Selective Bi-directional Replication. In addition to replicating selected VMs, a flexible replication solution must also accommodate a variety of enterprise topologies. It is no longer sufficient to simply replicate VMs from one active site to a designated passiv

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 hosts on which they were powered on might be heavily loaded, while other hosts are comparatively lightly loaded.In a cluster using DRS and vSphere HA with admission control turned on, virtual machines might not be evacuated from hosts entering maintenance mode. You must manually migrate the virtual machines off of the hosts using vMotion. This behavior occurs because of the resources reserved for restarting virtual machines in th

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.iso supposed to provide me the hypervisor and all this.Not sure if the hdparm error is related. Furt

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 KB 10290 in the Nutanix Support Portal.

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 increase throughput. There are further parameters that can be employed when mounting disks, and accessing disks can be assisted via a max_sector_kb parameter.You can find more information regarding these modifica

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. For more details refer to KB-9102 How to identify plugged-in SFP module model, manufacturer, and hardware details

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. Configuration stored - IDF database. Alert reported - Alert Manager.Configuration and Alert Reporting:The alert reporting is based on the above configuration.We can also fetch the above information via "ncli alerts get-alert-config" and update using "ncli alerts update-alert-config" Tools:For checking the alerts received to nos-alert: ZygradeFor checking the alert: Insights Logs/Command: Alert Manager leader: alert_tool To check if the alert notification is send to email recipients: "alert_manager.INFO" log file in the alert manager leader. To check about the aler

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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?