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Hi. New to Nutanix for only a month, doing testing as a VMware replacement. One we thing currently do in vCenter is have very granular permissions. Only Linux engineers have access to Linux VM, and Windows engineers to windows. And Linux and Windows templates already have pre-defined category attached. I can build an authorization policy based on the “virtual machine admin” role and apply the scope to only AHV with category of linux and apply it to a linux user. However they cannot seem to build any new VMs, etc. Only manage what current VM has that category. I have tried to all other entity types as full access, but that doesn't seem to work, they can manage both sets of VMs. I am probably doing a terrible job explaining this, but if someone can tell me this can be done and give some hints, I can keep trying. I am certain I must be able to duplicate these permissions we already have.Thank you!

We're currently running low on available storage in our Nutanix environment, and I’d like to ask for your advice on how we can free up space effectively. If there are recommended steps or best practices we should follow, I’d really appreciate your guidance 

When physically configuring the DR center, we plan to set it up through migration. Would it suffice if only the Prism VIP has network connectivity? Or should communication also be established between each node?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of November 2-8, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-20207 - NC2 Azure - vTPM gets disabled when VM is powered on via Nutanix AHV PC (NC2) Plugin for Citrix KB-20213 - Approval Policy for Secure Snapshots cannot be deleted from Prism Central KB-20215 - Cleanup of Stale OVA Upload Files KB-20217 - Repeating alerts for The Active gateway node of VPC {uuid1} for external subnet {uuid2} is updated KB-20227 - Foundation Central imaging fails on Cisco Compute node with dual, un-RAIDed M.2 SSDs KB-20231 - Cisco VIC Bandwidth Performance with Updated Ethernet Adapter Policy KB-20233 - AHV host becomes unreachable during upgrade to AHV 10.x due to network upgrade stuck KB-20235 - NDB - Oracle SIHA Provisioning failure due to udev rules conflict KB-20245 - VM updates in Prism Central fail with the "Failed to perform the operation on the VM with UUID '<UUID>', due to an invalid argument with key 'project' and value 'EMPTY'." erro

Hello community. I am new to Nutanix, we just got a 3-node POC to evaluate a move off of VMware. Regarding Nutanix tools, it appears unlike VMware which the clone from template will keep a functional tools, Nutanix does not work that way. You have to install Nutanix tools after the clone or during the deployment. Is there a good KB or blog on this? We are very well versed in Red Had. We use Ansible and Satellite for our Red Hat management. I found a gzip for the Tools you can install, but how do you get it registered to the cluster? Is there a json file or something that we need to include in our clone that has the cluster ip, etc. Any help to get me started on this is appreciated. I will need to tackle Windows later, but I am not versed in Windows very well.Thank you!

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of October 2025.KB-8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB-1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB-3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB-7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB-1536 - NCC Health Check: disk_online_check KB-4944 - Unregister cluster from Prism Central and cleanup (regular and force), FAQs KB-8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB-15679 - In Prism Central (PC) version pc.2024.1, Prism Element is blacklisted and cannot be registered to either the same PC or a different PC KB-18070 - Acropolis service may be in restart loop with the CRITICAL message by memory_model_manager.py KB-8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB-5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB-8130 - Prism admin account locked with "Account locked due to too many failed attempts." KB-1558 - How to license your Nutanix Clu

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 26-November 1, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19844 - LCM Firmware Update Fails Due to IPMI/BMC MAC Address Mismatch KB-19847 - UEFI Windows VMs on AHV do not allow changing display resolution when using VNC console KB-19953 - NDB | Staging drive at [/opt/era_base/db_logs/${DATABASE_NAME}] are extended automatically KB-20121 - Nutanix Files - File Server Network changes doesn?t change gateway when using Storage Managed Network. KB-20171 - MSP TEST_SVC_DISCOVERY_PMSP_SVC test fails KB-20183 - License Expiry Approaching in X weeks. KB-20195 - Prism Central Audit logs shows incorrect user name for host actions KB-20197 - Layer2StretchDelete task is stuck in "kQueued" or "kRunning" state KB-20204 - Failed to enable Network Log collection in Nutanix Security Central KB-20206 - Subnets configured in PC-DVS are not allowed in a Recovery Plan KB-20216 - RDMA enablement fails with "rdma0 is not one of valid RDMA inter

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 19-25, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-20049 - Some of the VMs don't show Efficiency status on PC KB-20134 - Fail to verify replication encryption after enable encryption with backplane network configured KB-20147 - Logbay anonymization may not mask all data KB-20153 - Prism Central - LCM Direct upload failing for the SAML users with Super Admin roles KB-20155 - Objects Deployment Grayed Out on Objects 5.2.1 KB-20161 - ESXi upgrade initiated via 1-click from 7.x to 8.x version is stuck in a loop of EnterMaintenanceMode and ExitMaintenanceMode due to Unsupported TPM Version KB-20162 - UEFI Secure Boot cannot be enabled for VMs provisioned through NDB KB-20166 - AttachVmSnapshot tasks are left in kQueued status KB-20176 - VM deployment fails with Internal error on Powerflex cluster KB-20177 - Certain HPE ProLiant Gen12 models may have an "Enabled" PCieMultiSegment value in BIOS causing failures during node addit

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 12-18, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19328 - How to license mixed Nutanix Data Base (NDB) and Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure (NCI) clusters KB-19808 - Object upgrade from LCM failing with Operation Failed. Reason: Update of release.buckets_manager.update failed KB-19931 - The Security Dashboard in Prism Central (PC) may incorrectly display the status for features like Cluster Lockdown, Secure Boot, and Log Forwarding. KB-20062 - Fujitsu Primergy iRMC upgrade through LCM fails with error: Expected IRMC version after update X.X does not match the version after update X.X KB-20063 - Move - Windows 2025 preparation for ESXi and Hyper-V. KB-20065 - Move - Unable to add vCenter in Move due to VM tag collection error. KB-20084 - VMs Fail to Power On After Reverse Cluster Conversion from AHV to ESXi KB-20085 - Cluster Conversion Task Stuck at 80% Due to CVM NICs in Disconnected State on ESXi with DVS KB-20118 - Unable

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 5-11, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19600 - Nutanix Self-Service - Project update fails if one of the PC accounts is not reachable KB-20050 - Prism Central login screen is stuck at loading after adding the custom DNS search suffixes KB-20067 - DR | Clusters with AHV Metro or Synchronous replication enabled upgraded to AOS 7.3.1 may experience Stargate Service issues KB-20073 - Virtualbox Guest Additions can not be installed on the Foundation VM KB-20077 - LCM does not offer firmware upgrades for XCC, UEFI, or LXPM on Lenovo Whitley platforms KB-20090 - AOS 7.3 - Nike enabled cluster down after enabling network segmentation KB-20096 - NDB - VM Provisioning Failure Due to SSH Connection ErrorSupport Portal login not required:KB-20042 - Nutanix CSI Driver Installation Fails on OpenShift cluster with "did not find a registered Prism Central cluster" Error KB-20043 - Foundation Platforms Upgrade Fails in Portable

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 28-October 4, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-18903 - Objects is Unmanageable from Prism Central after PCBR KB-19882 - File Analytics - Elastic Search docker container stuck at starting state KB-19902 - Node removal fails with "Cannot mark node for removal. Node is to be added back to metadata store" KB-19910 - Prism Central: NGT widget makes rendering of VM summary page fail if no NGT apps are enabled KB-19963 - LCM AHV upgrade fails with the "Upgrade failed: Unable to run upgrade plugin remove_old_ngd" error on GPU enabled cluster KB-19967 - Native OTLP support with Loki and Prometheus in Nutanix Kubernetes Platform (NKP) KB-19970 - Upstream Connect Error During Certain Batch Operations in Prism Central KB-19999 - The V4 VmList API call fails with the "server encountered a timeout while trying to process request" error if one or more conneted Prosm Element clusters are not reachable KB-20016 - Failed to sa

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of September 2025.KB-8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB-19524 - NCC check_ntp check errors with "Unable to read chrony/ntp config" KB-1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB-1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB-3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB-18070 - Acropolis service may be in restart loop with the CRITICAL message by memory_model_manager.py KB-5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB-7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB-8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB-4944 - Unregister cluster from Prism Central and cleanup (regular and force), FAQs KB-1558 - How to license your Nutanix Cluster - Nutanix License Manager Guide and additional resources KB-6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB-8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB-4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB-8130 - Prism admin

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 21-27, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19851 - AHV upgrade to 10.0.x leaves the nodes in Connected: False and Schedulable: False KB-19907 - Prism Central Login Fails with "Unable to process, IAM DR is in progress" After PCBR Restore KB-19933 - Linux VMs failing to migrate with driver installation failure noted in Move migration plan KB-19934 - Common Access Card (CAC) login failing after Prism Central reboot KB-19936 - Connection issues with NC2 cluster in Azure KB-19941 - The cluster appears as 'Unnamed' in the Support Portal KB-19952 - Log bundle collection from PE fails when initiated via Prism Central KB-19955 - NGT link becomes inactive due to missing system PATH causing tzutil /g failures KB-19968 - LCM still shows disabled Broadcom NIC updates even after NIC firmware was updated manually to the targeted version KB-19969 - Prism Central: Entities missing if there are more than 5 assigned to a single En

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 14-20, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19795 - Nutanix Files - DataLens - Recall from S3 Wasabi cloud failed KB-19805 - Unable to remove non compliant Affinity Policy from guest VMs in Prism Central KB-19806 - Atlas tasks stuck for Move migrations of VMs from ESXi to AHV with VPCs KB-19835 - Prism network visualization may show multiple active ports on a bond configured with active-backup mode. KB-19848 - VM deployment with Cloud-init guest customization failing with the "Missing '#cloud-config' header for VM uuid" error KB-19849 - Unable to update Volume Group with RBAC users due to the missing owner_reference attribute after Prism Central upgraded. KB-19857 - External Firewall security policy may block repetitive SSH connections between Nutanix components. KB-19863 - Foundation VM fails to boot in UEFI mode KB-19871 - Warning! The current license level does not allow the use for this feature. Data-at-Rest

I am trying to list storage containers using prism element V2 API.I want to fetch only required attributes in the response. How can use filter_criteria, search_string and search_attribute_list effectively. Let’s say I want list containers having UUID’s (2 or more). i am not finding details on how to use these. Please share doc link if any.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 7-13, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19514 - NCC Health Check: check_external_storage_node_maintenance KB-19619 - Prism Central - Admin Center Settings Page Portal Proxy access issue with error: "You are not authorized to access this page". KB-19633 - Nutanix Files - Snapshots for a 3rd party backup may not be deleted for a long time KB-19782 - Prism Central UI access with custom roles may fail after upgrading to pc.2024.3 or later KB-19788 - Security dashboard not working after using PCBR to migrate Prism Central to another Cluster KB-19830 - Nutanix Objects - Deleting Objects cluster when Network Segmentation is enabled fails KB-19838 - Curator is crashing continuously and scans are failing with replica_idle_secs > 0 (0 vs. 0) KB-19841 - Login As option is missing in support portal KB-19843 - Unable to apply NUS Pro Upgrade KB-19856 - Genesis may not come up on its restart for LCM Framework UpgradeSupp

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 31-September 6, 2025.KB-19596 - Network Gateway is alerting because NTP is flapping KB-19649 - LCM - SPP upgrade can fail with error: "HPE SUM Validation Failed, Below components are not updated. [SPS]" KB-19656 - LCM upgrade on Prism Central does not show the upgrade progressing, just "loading" KB-19660 - How to Transition MSP Clusters from Legacy to Cloud Platform Licensing [Portfolio 2.0]. KB-19701 - Nutanix Files - Upgrade task failed with error "FileServerUpgradeTask: files image management sub-task failed.: 24" on PC 7.3.x. KB-19732 - FVN ovn-controller enablement fails on cluster if SSL inspection is enabled KB-19734 - Nutanix Files - After disaster recovery of Prism Central, Files app is not loading when launched. KB-19756 - Prism may encounter "Certificates do not conform to algorithm constraints" error when it tries to connect to remote TLS endpoint KB-19775 - Unable to List ESXi VMs Using Prism Central v3

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of August 2025.KB-8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB-1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB-1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troubleshooting KB-7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB-18070 - Acropolis service may be in restart loop with the CRITICAL message by memory_model_manager.py KB-3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB-5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB-6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB-8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB-19524 - NCC check_ntp check errors with "Unable to read chrony/ntp config" KB-1558 - How to license your Nutanix Cluster - Nutanix License Manager Guide and additional resources KB-8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB-4944 - Unregister cluster from Prism Central and cleanup (regular and force), FAQs KB-2090 - AHV host networking KB-6153 - NCC Health Check: defa

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 24-30, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19599 - Nutanix Files - Cloned file server does not contain RestAPI users created on the original file server KB-19614 - NGT Install Button Greyed Out in Prism Central (PC) KB-19668 - NVMe drive removal from Prism may fail with this error message: "Optional.get() cannot be called on an absent value" KB-19698 - FVN - Redirecting egress traffic across subnet extensions fails to egress properly KB-19717 - Foundation | AOS installation during Foundation can timeout due to dense disk configurations on HPE DX4120 node types KB-19731 - Prism Central deployment fails due to a CMSP precheck failure when connecting to vCenter via SSO KB-19736 - ESXi 7.x Upgrade Fails or Stalls on VMD-Enabled Nodes via Nutanix LCM or 1-Click Upgrade KB-19737 - Self Service Restore unmount operation fails when protection domain has been deleted KB-19741 - The Upload OVA page in Prism Central stuck loa

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 17-23, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19086 - Alert - A135007 - VTreeSnapshotLimitWarning KB-19218 - Nutanix Files - Alert A160223 - ReconfigureFsWithNewPcConfig KB-19461 - Intel S4510/S4610 SSD Timeout Issues on Lenovo Nodes Running Nutanix ? Firmware Upgrade Required KB-19585 - Security Central Access Error: Access unavailable for this app. Please contact the owner to start trial in order to provide the access for Security Central. KB-19589 - Prism Central UI is inaccessible after a power outage because the load balancer (LB) service is unhealthy KB-19653 - Self-service - Application task execution fails with error "Script execution failed with status 255!" if source Blueprint Escript has localhost reference. KB-19669 - Nutanix Files - Enable Files maximum read performance KB-19702 - Cisco - On AMD M8 platforms Attach NVMe Devices button not enabled KB-19703 - Cisco - During CVM reboot, CVM may not power on

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 10-16, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-18837 - Nutanix Files - Alert - PCVMFileServerUnreachable KB-19023 - Nutanix Files - Alert A160219 - ConfigureRdmaOnFileServerFailed KB-19040 - Nutanix Files - Alert A160219 A160220 - FsVmAssociationToCategoryFailure and FsVgAssociationToCategoryFailure KB-19085 - Alert - A135006 - ExternalStorageVolumeLimitWarning KB-19707 - Security Dashboard vulnerability scan failureSupport Portal login not required:KB-19135 - Nutanix Files - Alert - A160220 - FileServerUserQuotaReached KB-19214 - Disable Self-Service before NCM enablement during NCM backup restore on same Home PC KB-19558 - NDK - Partial failure during failover operation can lead to an unrecoverable state for a SyncRep'ed application KB-19593 - AHV interfaces are in disabled state due to LACP misconfiguration KB-19625 - Active-Active bond mode 'balance-tcp' in AHV is not established with Cisco Servers with Virtual Int

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of August 3-9, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-18858 - LCM operation inventory failed on hypervisor, due to Failed to update entity after inventory KB-19113 - Pending Activation status within the Expiring Assets Menu. KB-19277 - Prism Central default landing page redirects to Marketplace KB-19475 - Download metadata option is not seen in Prism Central 7.3 IDP configuration without an IDP configured. KB-19508 - "Default Virtual switch MTU cannot be less than 1500" KB-19567 - "Root login Failed" alert gets triggered from rsyslog. KB-19613 - How to apply tagged licenses to your environment using cluster-based tagging KB-19636 - LCM Inventory fails at precheck "test_check_url_connectivity" KB-19639 - Prism Central Auditing log may show incorrect user name during VM revert KB-19659 - DR | Upgrading either the source or target Disaster Recovery enabled cluster to AOS version 7.3.0.5 may disrupt DR workflowsSupport Portal login

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 27-August 2, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19071 - Reapply vCenter license when migrating from Prism Central to Nutanix Cloud Manager (NCM) 1.5 KB-19243 - NDK - UPFO fails on secondary site when primary is down during storage failover KB-19351 - Nutanix Objects Service upgrade fails with docker pull issue KB-19432 - Nutanix Files - Third party Commvault/HYCU backup fails due to large number of create_mount_target_snapshot_intentful KB-19583 - NC2 - LCM inventory failing after AHV upgraded to 10.x KB-19624 - LCM- LCM page on Prism Central 7.3 may not load if older version of browser is usedSupport Portal login not required:KB-19039 - NDK - Application pods on primary site (active) are stuck with a CreateContainerError status, showing "read-only file system" error in events KB-19191 - NDB ? Failure in Database Patching and OS Patching for MongoDB due to failure in the SSH Connectivity Check between replica set cl

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of July 2025.KB-3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB-8453 - Alert - A1044 - PathOffline KB-1540 - AOS Only - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB-7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB-18070 - Acropolis service may be in restart loop with the CRITICAL message by memory_model_manager.py KB-5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB-1536 - NCC Health Check: disk_online_check KB-8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB-6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB-8094 - NCC Health Check: disk_status_check KB-4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB-4944 - Unregister cluster from Prism Central and cleanup (regular and force), FAQs KB-8130 - Prism admin account locked with "Account locked due to too many failed attempts." KB-19330 - LCM Firmware Updates Fail with 'Invalid update spec found' error KB-1113 - HDD, SSD, and HBA troublesh

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of July 20-26, 2025.Support Portal login required:KB-19471 - Tomcat service is restarting frequently after upgrade Prism Central upgrade KB-19482 - Foundation Central version 1.8 displays error "The CPU vendor of the node(s) being prepared is missing or doesn't match the CPU vendor (AMD) of the target cluster (Cluster_Name). Please refresh the nodes and try again" during node preparation. KB-19488 - NDB ? PostgreSQL Database provisioning fails on the registration step when OS is RedHat Linux 9.x KB-19511 - Project quota usage may be higher than expected after VM creation failure KB-19520 - Cross-Cluster Live Migration(CCLM) fails with "Failed to perform the operation due to an internal error" KB-19527 - When launching PE(s) from PC, widgets load with "An error has occurred" and "Failed+to+perform+operation+as+API+rate+limit exceeded" KB-19528 - Kubernetes cluster missing after Prism central upgrade to 7.3 KB-19564 - Nutanix Fi