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Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of June 11-17, 2023.KB 14181 - Alert - A160004 - File Server scale-out failed KB 14293 - NCC Health Check: ec_enablement_check KB 14924 - HPDX : LCM upgrade support for Nodes below SPP v2021.04.x for HPDX Gen10 and Gen10 Plus KB 14951 - NGT installation may fail in Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9 guests KB 14956 - Uhura in crashloop due to UnicodeEncodeError caused by non-ASCII character in VM name KB 14963 - LCM: AOS upgrade fails with with AttributeError: 'NoneType' object has no attribute 'TaskUpdate' KB 14977 - Certificate created with Windows Certificate Authorities may cause problems with PCDR workflow KB 14978 - VM deployment from OVA fails with "Cannot read properties of null (reading 'vm_spec')" errorNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of June 4-10, 2023.KB 14305 - Dark site deployment of pc.2022.9 using DNS 10.0.0.0 causes the UI to fail loading with the error message "no healthy upstream" KB 14664 - Cannot access the EFI Boot Manager when pressing F2 in the Prism VM console KB 14803 - NDB | Windows based Database showing "ERA_DAEMON_UNREACHABLE" in NDB UI KB 14834 - Error "Unable to obtain list of VLANs: Learning flows are not added properly or uplink eth3 is not part of bridge br0." seen on AHV Cluster After AOS Upgrade from 5.20.x to 6.5.x KB 14940 - LCM 2.6+ UI page blank when loaded on an older version of Chrome KB 14948 - Nutanix Files: AIX clients getting error "Cannot find the current directory" KB 14955 - Network performance degradation on Oracle Linux Enterprise 7 Release 5 VMs KB 14957 - Nutanix Kubernetes Engine - Pod fails to terminate due to "ailed to get sandbox ip: check network namespace closed: remove netns: unlinkat" error KB 14959 - Pris

Hello Nutanix Community,We are running Nutanix HCI on Lenovo servers having three-node cluster & currently the cluster has less capacity. We have 2 empty HDD slots on each Lenovo serves and we are planning to insert same capacity HDD drives on all 3 servers. So totally 6 HDD with a capacity of 2.4TB each.I would like to know how to configure and expand the storage? Please note that I’m new to Nutanix so kindly help me from scratch:-)Thanks in advance to everyone.

Hey guys, newbie to the forum here. I recently setup a ce version of Nutanix in our work lab environment on vsphere. Up until last week I was able to log into the gui, I can still login via putty.When I try to log into the gui now, via xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:9440/console/#login - I get the above message.I have also had the message "server is not reachable”I did think about trying the install again but thought I would ask the question first and see if anyone else has had the same problem and if so how they got around it?  Thanks in advance.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 21-27, 2023.KB 14415 - Alert - A160169 - File Server with Protection Policies Unregistered or Deleted KB 14509 - How to enable the ‘Convert licenses’ button on the license portal KB 14811 - NVMe drives missing after Lenovo firmware update KB 14868 - Lenovo - UEFI and XCC Upgrades are disabled in LCM for Whitley platforms on ESXi Hypervisor KB 14870 - Lenovo : NIC upgrades are disabled for Lenovo Hardware KB 14879 - Clusters with Prism Central Disaster Recovery (PCDR) configured could experience PC-PE sync issues on upgrading the target PCDR cluster to AOS 6.5.3Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Hello, I have a Nutanix 1175S-G8 and I need to enter the IPMI to see the status of the system hardware. I would like to know if I can enter the IPMI without doing the initial configuration or installing a block, it would help me a lot to know, thanks!

Hello,Does "Host Boot Disk Repair" require IPMI and cvm/host to communicate with each other?Is IPMI cable connection required?Does it fail if there is no communication? Thank you.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 28-June 3, 2023.KB 14727 - Samsung MZQL27T6HBLA-00A07 Drives running older FW can experience read errors KB 14801 - File Analytics upgrade failed with Error: Upgrade failed: sudo bash /opt/nutanix/verify_services.sh failed remotely KB 14850 - NDB - A PostgreSQL clone fails with message: "Database recovery failed. Check recovery script logs for detailed information" KB 14917 - Cluster Expansion might get stuck on the AOS version between 6.1 and 6.5.2.x KB 14920 - Received discovery saying cluster has one or more nodes having different foundation versionsNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

We want to configure Nutanix Flow Security for which we would like to whether we need to consider configuring anything major on NTX Flow networking side or the micro segmentation will do the intended job ? 

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of May 2023.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 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 4409 - LCM: Life Cycle Manager Troubleshooting Guide KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 1113 - HDD or SSD disk troubleshooting KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 8514 - NCC Health Check: fs_inconsistency_check KB 3786 - Alert - A1081 - CuratorScanFailure KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 14671 - /home partition is filling up due to continuous lcm log collection KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 4872 - How to cancel an ongoing LCM update operation using the "Stop Update" feature KB 14748 - Unable to restore VMs/VGs having vDisks larger than 4TiB from a recovery po

Using LCM to update Foundation to version 5.4 I am finding that it consistently fails on Lenovo hardware.I’ve tried two clusters so far that were both at AOS version 6.5.2 but both LCM updates of Foundation to version 5.4 failed.Ominously there is mention in the Field Installation Giude for Foundation 5.4 (link below) that “Software Update” should not be used to update Foundation on Lenovo platforms, and advises to use the command line instead.It worked when using the command line, so my question is: what’s going wrong when LCM attempts this?https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Field-Installation-Guide-v5_4:fie-upgrade-foundation-vm-c.htmlWhat tends to happen is that most nodes except 1 or 2 are successfully updated, with the remaining node neeing to be done by hand from the command line.

HiNutanix 6.6.2.5What is the difference for the following storage containers, except the replication factor, compression, etc..) ?  I mean what is meant to be placed for the certain containers.For example, when I deployd Prism Central, then there was an option between “default-..” and “SelfServiceContainer”, so my question is, which is for what (images, VM’s, etc..)..?Thanks.RegardsRaul

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 14-20, 2023.KB 13851 - Alert - A160159 & A160160 - File Server Volume Group Configuration Checks KB 14102 - Alert - A160163 - File Server Share Permission Migration failed KB 14434 - Migrate a vDisk of a VM on a 100% full container to another container stuck at 0% KB 14550 - Prism Central - Cluster efficiency report does not show proper output for PE clusters KB 14698 - Space Accounting | Prism shows different space usage for a VM than the Guest OS shows KB 14720 - NDB - Listing and changing the TimeZone settings in NDB KB 14725 - Cluster Expansion failed on discovery OS with error "Per node tasks failed for nodes" KB 14769 - Prism - Banner message "Your environment is partially licensed. The operational features and data will be available for licensed clusters only." KB 14781 - Reinstalled Hyper-V host failed to join the Failover Cluster with error 0x800700005 KB 14789 - Karbon Platform Services (KPS) user unable t

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of May 7-13, 2023.KB 13454 - Alert - A300440 - RecoveryPlanDynamicNetworkGatewayDeletionFailure KB 14266 - Frequent Critical Alerts 'The remote availability zone x.x.x.x is unreachable' on PC KB 14722 - Nutanix Security Central (formerly FSC) - Enabling NIST CFS v1.1 Policy KB 14734 - NDB - DB Server Provisioning fails with error: "Unable to sysprep machine or sysprep is taking too long (> 30 min)." KB 14736 - IPMI is not responsive GUI/CLI after 3rd party SNMP configuration NX G6 G7 KB 14772 - Unable to manage checks or view check history on Prism Element Health dashboard unless a filter is used. KB 14778 - File Analytics - FA 3.2.1 may fail to start services after a reboot KB 14793 - Windows 2022 with UEFI enabled - No letter assigned to disk after running SSRNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

HiWe are planning on deploying new nutanix clusters. I was wondering, is there an alternative for microsoft active directory authentication as well  ?Here I read MS AD, Open LDAP.https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CxcyCAC My question is, does it support freeIPA as well for IPMI (mgmt ilo) and prism (central) ? RegardsRaul 

Hi…I recently was called from a client with an old nx-1065-g4, and running aos 4.5.2.1 (i asumme was never updated).Solved hardware problem and rebuild the node building phoenix iso from a newer nx and installer from original cvm.I wonder if the latest AOS 4 branch (4.7.7.2) is available somewhere so I can also upgrade the system to a newer 5 or 6 branch, as recommended upgrade path.My client has no support contract.Is it possible to find these old packages?Thanks

Hello Nutanix expertsI have a question for youAmong the functions of Nutanix, the alert is known as a good function that can immediately inform the status of the clusterAs far as I know, if you don't press the resolve on the prism, the alarm that occurred once will not recurThrough the filter of the alert, I checked if I pressed auto reserve or manual reserveIs there a reason why the alert occurs again when it is not applicable to both options I'd appreciate it if you could explain it ============================================================================For example, a routine inspection conducted in the previous month asks the customer to confirm that the alert is a new alert because the alert has been reactivated even though the customer is aware of it

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 30-May 6, 2023.KB 14435 - Alert - A1100254 - AwsExternalSGLimitExceeded KB 14628 - After upgrading Prism Central 2022.6.x with MSP enabled, the MSP cluster will be broken KB 14651 - Configure hugepages settings on Postgres KB 14662 - NDB - Oracle log catchups failing due to datafiles being on the wrong disk KB 14674 - File Analytics - file server fails to get enabled on a new file analytics after file server migration KB 14688 - AOS upgrade failed with "LCM failed performing action delete_lcm_aos_upgrade_zk_wal in phase PostActions" KB 14702 - NDB - DB Server Provisioning from NDB fails with error message 'Failed to get IP' KB 14705 - Space Accounting | Prism show cluster/container space usage different than total usage from all VMs on it. KB 14717 - Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) on Azure - Disk failed alert KB 14721 - NDB - Users fail to login on NDB Console with error "Failed to fetch cluster details. Retry login." KB

I’ve been trying to create webhooks using Nutanix API V3 (using Nutanix API explorer) and it works fine. The only problem I’ve been getting is to send some custom parameters along with the payload. Let’s say I want to send a custom parameter named cluster ip and value is “10.247.xxx.xx”. It’s just an example, but I want to receive this custom parameter whenever the event is triggered (so basically send this when event is sent to my webhook URL).  I’ve tried googling it but no use. I cannot seem to find anything in documentation as well. Is there anyone WHO can help me with this?  

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of April 2023.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 8885 - Alert - A15039 - IPMI SEL UECC Check KB 1113 - HDD or SSD disk troubleshooting KB 4409 - LCM: Life Cycle Manager Troubleshooting Guide KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 13476 - Domain Manager Internal Service has Stopped Working (helios) KB 14671 - LCM: /home partition is filling up due to continuous lcm log collection KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 3786 - Alert - A1081 - CuratorScanFailure KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 8569 - Accessing Prism from Chrome browser blocked by ERR_CERT_REVOKED error KB 13136 - NCC Health Check: microservice_infrastructure_status_check KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 4872 - How to cancel an ongoing LCM update operation using the "Stop Updat

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 23-29, 2023.KB 14475 - Space Accounting | Nutanix Storage Usage Guide and FAQ KB 14515 - Space Accounting - Determining VM Space Usage KB 14516 - Space Accounting | Identifying Snapshots on a Nutanix Cluster KB 14525 - Space Accounting - Are the space saving settings on my containers configured correctly? KB 14600 - Space Accounting | Cluster space used by images KB 14617 - NDB - Scale Database UI for MSSQL DB Log Area "xx GB used of allocated xx GB" does not change after the size is extended KB 14639 - Prism Central - App Switcher showing no apps after upgrade to 2023.1.0.1 due to no IP address set to NTNX_LOCAL_AZ account KB 14659 - CMSP upgrade failed during PC upgrade from 2022.6.0.1 to 2022.9 KB 14665 - Migrating from ESXi to AHV Windows VMs not updating DNS records to DNS server KB 14670 - Uploading SSL certificates on PRISM could fail due to SSL certificates are password protected KB 14681 - Simultaneous VM mig

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 16-22, 2023.KB 14024 - Calm application deployment fails with "Failed getting banner" KB 14386 - Deploy button visible for Nutanix Category Apps instead of Open button post deployment KB 14572 - MS Office files fail to save to Files Server with message "Access Denied: Contact your administrator" KB 14583 - Elasticsearch failing due to missing rule for port 4199 in iptables KB 14619 - LCM BIOS upgrade to P[X]70.002 version on G6/G7 nodes fails with 'Host did not reboot in 3600 secs time' error due to CATERR events being generated on it KB 14626 - AHV upgrade fails with "Could not deserialize msgpack message" error while running salt KB 14634 - Nutanix Files - PC Files Manager unable to reach File server if PCVM and File Sever internal network are on different subnets KB 14637 - MSSQL: AG provision operation fails with error "An error occurred while creating the cluster <OU_path> An error occurred creating cluster

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 9-15, 2023.KB 12864 - Alert - A400117 - PolicyEngineVersionMismatch KB 13793 - NDB - scheduled daily snapshots break MSSQL differential backup chain KB 14359 - Prism Central - Redeploy errored out Infrastructure App from My Apps in Admin Center KB 14419 - Nutanix Objects Alert - kUnsynchronizedClock KB 14420 - Nutanix Objects Alert - kLowWALStorage KB 14421 - Nutanix Objects Alert - kMultipleFailedLeaderElections KB 14508 - No license eligible to convert KB 14517 - Unable to power on or migrate VMs to GPU enabled host KB 14599 - Prism Central 1-click deployment may fail when the gateway does not respond to ICMP Echo requests KB 14608 - Exporting an AHV VM using UEFI to OVA and importing to ESXi cluster causes an unbootable VM.Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of April 2-8, 2023.KB 13467 - No compatible products found when uploading cluster summary file KB 13903 - LCM Pre-check: "test_node_removal_status" KB 14104 - NCC Health Check: check_cvm_ssh_security KB 14121 - LCM Pre-check: "test_expand_cluster_status" KB 14277 - LCM Precheck: test_lacp_configuration KB 14304 - LCM 2.6: LCM upgrade will not fail when num_candidates > 0 KB 14407 - NDB | MSSQL AG Clone group deployment fails KB 14465 - Cluster outage can occur during multi-node removal when services go down on node which is yet to be detached KB 14522 - Slow start time of Siemens NX application on AHV due to FlexLM network query KB 14558 - Nutanix Cloud Cluster (NC2) on AWS - High space utilization during/post cluster recovery from S3 KB 14561 - License alert - Cluster is under-utilizing the Files license capacity. Usage: 0.00 TiB, Allowed license capacity: 1.0 TiB KB 14566 - NDB - OracleDB patching leaves old home and grid

Hello, I understand that if the node fails, the ha function is activated and attempts to recover. If one node fails in a Data Resilience Status Critical state due to a lack of storage space, will the cluster collapse? What happens.