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Hi AllDoes anyone know what causes the data in the picture to be lost(CPU&MMemory)? 

I may be having a case of the stupids, but I am trying to find the PowerShell cmdlet that will let you pull information of categories assigned to a VM. I’m running the Get-NTNXVM cmdlet but I do not see the category listed for the VM. Additionally, when I run a Get-NTNXTag it returns “No data found”. Does anyone know how I can pull category info for VMs via PowerShell?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 31-November 6, 2021.KB 12160 - Restoring ESXi host configuration outside of Nutanix procedure, CVM may become orphaned resulting failed to power on the CVM KB 12169 - Disk Health Monitor FAQ KB 12251 - NVD - Reconnecting Calm Applications UVMs in a Multi-PC Setup After a DR Event KB 12253 - NVD - Synchronize Nutanix Flow Policies and categories between 2 Prism Central Instances KB 12264 - Qualys Scanning Guide for Nutanix Products KB 12271 - Nutanix Files - DNS record validation failed KB 12273 - Xi Frame - Cannot connect to CIM server KB 12283 - Bulk updates of Prism Central categories linked to Flow Microsegmentation policies may cause HA action and VM restarts on AHV KB 12287 - ICAP Client Populates Requests Header Incorrectly with AFS 4.0 KB 12290 - Uploading SSL certificates may fail with error org.bouncycastle.asn1.pkcs.PrivateKeyInfo cannot be cast to org.bouncycastle.openssl.PEMKeyPairNote: You may need to l

You can monitor the Mine cluster health and activity through Prism. To determine the AOS version of your Mine the cluster is running, go to About Nutanix option under user_name drop-down list in Prism main menu. Mine with Veeam DashboardThe Prism web console includes a custom Mine with Veeam dashboard specific to a Mine™ cluster, which appears by default when you first log on to Prism. To view this custom dashboard at any time, select Mine with Veeam from the pull-down list on the far left of the main menu.The custom dashboard displays the following eight information tiles (widgets): Cluster. The cluster tile provides quick visual indicators for the following components: cluster health (overall), Veeam implementation, Mine™ components, and storage capacity (available). Green indicates a healthy component, yellow indicates a warning condition, and red indicates a critical condition. Click the Launch Console link to open a Veeam console. Click the Mine Platform link to open the Mi

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 24-30, 2021.KB 12200 - Flow Microsegmentation Rules Are Programmed For VMs Not In Policy KB 12227 - Stargate service instability due to mixing NVMe and HDD KB 12257 - CVM or PC VM may exceed the thread count limit on the cluster, resulting in services crashing or connection to PE or PC failing with "Server Unreachable" KB 12267 - VM ownership is changed from "admin" to Source Cluster UUID after Cross-Cluster live migration KB 12278 - After upgrading scale-out Prism Central to pc.2021.9, reports may not work due to Vulcan service key migrationNote: 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 October 2021.KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] – G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1540 - [AOS Only] What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB 6153 - NCC Health Check: default_password_check and pc_default_password_check KB 1113 - HDD or SSD disk troubleshooting KB 10919 - Logrotate does not rotate ikat logs KB 4158 - Alert - A1104 - PhysicalDiskBad KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 10908 - CVM in a boot loop after a reboot or an upgrade KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 4409 - LCM: (Life Cycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 4272 - Alert - A6516 - Average CPU load on Controller VM is critically high KB 3786 - Alert - A1

Hi guys,I want to run some tests on a local system, so I created two VMs that are isolated from my production network.So, I created a network in the cluster just to be used by these two VMs. This network does not exist in production, only within the cluster.I added the NIC for this network on both VMs. But even so VMs do not communicate, I cannot ping or access via SSH from one VM to another.This type of configuration, just for testing, is not possible with AHV \ AOS?     

So my 1st dive into Nutanix and I’m stuck at the first hurdle. I’ve setup a 1 node cluster to start with on a supermicro server with a decent enough spec and am just getting it ready to start experimenting but I can’t get the File Server updated. Everything else is running current versions but I have the below. I’ve had a quick look for some CLI guides but can’t see how to get more info on why this would be stuck. Very odd considering everything else updated without issue. Rules out the normal access, DNS issues etc. Any idea how I can clear these jobs? Rebooting etc does not clear them.I was just able to update NCC from 4.2.0.2 to 4.3 via the same method without issue. Thanks!Mark  

Whenever I export the vm list, I never see the creation date of each vm.How can I see the creation date of each vm, without using PrismCentral?Is there a tool, or script to see the creation date of each vm?Please help

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 17-23, 2021.KB 10714 - NCC Health Check: oplog_index_memory_usage_check KB 11874 - NGT installation fails with "The system cannot open the file" error KB 12198 - Uhura VmGet failing for a VM with secure boot KB 12213 - Scale up the number of object Load Balancer's deployed for performance configurations KB 12216 - Klas Voyager TDC 1.0 and 2.0 does not support AHV Upgrades and AOS 6.x upgrades KB 12220 - Missing NIC details on guest VM ethtool output KB 12228 - LCM upgrade failed "Cannot complete login due to an incorrect user name or password."Note: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some of these articles.

For a node to join a Nutanix cluster, it must have a hypervisor and AOS combination that Nutanix supports. AOS is the operating system of the Nutanix Controller VM, which is a VM that must be running in the hypervisor to provide Nutanix-specific functionality. Find the complete list of supported hypervisor/AOS combinations at https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/compatibility-matrixFoundation is the official deployment software of Nutanix. Foundation allows you to configure a pre-imaged node, or image a node with a hypervisor and an AOS of your choice. Foundation also allows you to form a cluster out of nodes whose hypervisor and AOS versions are the same, with or without re-imaging. Foundation is available for download at https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/Foundation.If you already have a running cluster and want to add nodes to it, you must use the Expand Cluster option in Prism, instead of using FoundationNetwork requirementsWhen configuring a Nutanix block a set of IP addresses

HyperVisor - ESXi 6.7U3Mostly Windows VMsI’m sure there’s good reason for this and it's probably to do with the way SQL handles memory but when I check the memory usage from Prism or Prism Central for a VM that’s running SQL it’s not accurately reflecting what the VM is actually using.  For example, from within the VM if I fire up task manager or even perfmon it will report the memory usage at say 95% whereas from Prism it reports the VM as using 25%.I need to generate a report for a collection of SQL VMs and application servers but I think for the SQL VMs I'm going to have to provide perfmon screenshots or something.Can anyone explain to me in simple terms why this is happening?

When I run the following  <:~$ ncli multicluster get-cluster-state I get this output, Cluster Id                : bff29593-35c0-4f5a-804f-257374c3e979     Cluster Name              : Unnamed     Is Multicluster           : true     Controller VM IP Addre... : [10.250.130.151]     External or Masqueradi... :     Controller VM NAT IP A... :     Marked for Removal        : false     Remote Connection Exists  : true   Question is how can I change Cluster Name to something other than Unamed???

Hello and thank you for the advice, I administer 1 block, 3 node cluster on NX-1065-G4 hardware, power is 110v. Following is the software versions:Version 5.10.10.1 LTS - Pro LicenseNCC Version: 3.9.4.1LCM Version: 2.3.2.3.20029AHV Version: 20170830.396HA reservation is enabled Can you please describe, or link to a KB which will help me understand, how a node failure will cause VM fail-over to another node? For instance, if node 1 fails, how and when with the workload fail-over? What configuration settings do I need to consider to optimize the workflow?  

What could cause this very error code “could not generate Firmware config” during installation on dell Power Edge R730?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 10-16, 2021.KB 11869 - NGT is failing installation on a guest OS where a Python environment already exists KB 11876 - NGT Setup Fails due to Carbonite Software modifying Drivers KB 11877 - NGT installation repeatedly failed on Windows 2016 servers with a "0x80070643 - Fatal error during installation" error KB 11931 - OVA export from Prism Central fails with 'Internal Server Error. kInternalError: Internal Error: 5 :Error accessing ovas capabilities'. KB 12130 - Windows Storage Spaces with Nutanix to improve single vdisk performance KB 12164 - ERA - Changing the ERA server IP KB 12167 - Frame - Reset Sandbox to Master Image KB 12186 - Leap | Protection/Unprotection of VM(s) in protection policy fails post PC-DR event with the error “EnumTypeWrapper' object has no attribute 'kEntityCentric'” KB 12192 - IAMv2 SAML: Unable to upload XML metadata file under IDP after enabling CMSP KB 12204 - Nutanix Clusters on AOS 6.x m

Hello team, how to open a box on the nutanix support knowing that we have 3 blocks lenovo so 3 serial number, NB: I no longer have access to the prism

Hi,Is there any limitation on mixed hardware generation in one cluster Nutanix? Example old generation like G5 want to mixed with G8. Thanks

Hi, I just created a new account and wanted to activate the serial number for our NX-1065S-G5.I cannot activate because I’m not authorized for the account associated with the serial number.The mail-domain from our company changed and the old admins are not here any more.What to do?

I have 5 nodes equipped with 2*3.2TB NVMe SSD and 6* 1.92TB SATA SSD. of every one. all nodes are connected with 25Gb network. all nodes upgarde from AOS 5.15 to 5.20From the nutanix bible, in the scenarion with NVMe SSD + STATA SSD, the oplog will only reside in the NVMe SSD, and not in SATA SSD.So that is mean all the random write will first write in NVMe SSD and then drain to all the NVMe SSD+ SATA SSD?all the sequential write will pass OPlog and only writhe to extent store parally in all NVMe SSD + SATA SSD? How about the read I/O path? In some test, I found that when I do some I/O operation in VM, All the device (NVMe and SATA) have I/O counters and the IOPS are roughly the same in the prism-hardware--disk page. Seems the fast speed of NVMe SSD cannot be utilized.Does you have any suggestions to prove the fast performance improve by used NVMe in the nodes.I also checked that the disk status, as the folloing: It is used SPDK.================== 172.88.61.131 =================Slot  D

VStore refers to a separate mount point that is created with its own NFS namespace in a storage container. VStore Protection DomainThe namespace of a VStore is mapped to the protection domain when you protect the VStore. Such a protection domain is termed as VStore protection domain. A VStore protection domain allows you to protect the VStore. You can also unprotect the protected VStore. Files in a protected VStore are replicated to a remote site at a defined frequency. You can recover these files from the remote site in the event of a disaster. A Nearsync replication schedule of as little as 20 seconds to protect a VStore can be configured. VStore Mapping for Data Protection Nutanix recommends mapping the VStore container in the primary site to a container in the remote site. If a container containing a protected VStore in the primary site is not mapped to a specific container in the remote site, the container in the primary site is automatically mapped to the default (Self-Service) c

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of October 3-9, 2021.KB 11533 - Expand a cluster using ncli errors out when rack fault tolerance is configured KB 11653 - Era Postgres database crashes due to pg_wal directory full KB 12023 - Daylight Savings not accounted in Playbooks KB 12121 - Xi Frame - Cloud service is unavailable KB 12138 - IBM Power Systems: No Upgrade Path from Prism Central 5.10.0.7 or 5.11.12 | Deploy a New Prism Central 2021.3 KB 12142 - Creating a Prism Central Report for idle VMs KB 12143 - Nutanix Move | Unable to access file since it is locked KB 12147 - Frame - Disable TLS v1.0 and Enable v1.2 on SGA KB 12150 - Direct upload option is not available in Prism Element KB 12152 - FLOW: ID Based Security configuration fails with LDAPS Enabled AD Groups KB 12153 - Xi Frame - Failed to join domain. AD error code 8557 KB 12176 - Application-Consistent Recovery Point Failed because Quiescing the guest VM failed or timed outNote: You may need to log in t

Good morning; not sure if this is the right place to ask. Have cloned the “Super Admin” role via the UI and this only transfers partial permissions. Following Nutanix KB article: 00006224, dated: 8th Apr 2020 … https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LKhrCAGIt says we need to use REST API Explorer. I have extracted all the permissions from the default SA role, and created the JSON to ‘PUT’ these permissions into the cloned role but this is not working and I get a response code 422 and "'name' is a required property"Does anyone have some sample code that actually works that I can compare to?My code looks like this (example) {  "spec": {    "name": "<cloned role name here>",    "resources": {       "permission_reference_list": [            {              "kind": "permission",              "name": "Snapshot_Virtual_Machine",              "uuid": "<uuid here>"            },             <repeated, repeated, repeated!!>          ]        } 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of September 26-October 2, 2021.KB 11001 - Alert - A130356 - EntityUnderMultipleWitnessedRPs KB 11043 - NCC Health Check: ahv_host_mtu_check KB 11075 - Alert - A160135 - FileServerTieringCleanupNotification KB 11310 - NCC Health Check: hpe_hba_cabling_check KB 11400 - Alert - A160140 - FileServerSlogPartitionFailure KB 11412 - Alert - A160141 - FileServerSlogUpdateTaskFailure KB 11491 - Alert A130216 - VmAutonomousReplicationDelayed KB 11492 - Alert A130215 - VmAutonomousNearSyncPrepareFailed KB 11501 - Alert - A130213 - AutonomousNearSyncPrepareFailed KB 11502 - Alert - A130214 - ProtectionDomainAutonomousReplicationDelayed KB 11591 - Alert - A130217 - VgAutonomousNearSyncPrepareFailed KB 11592 - Aert - A130218 - VgAutonomousReplicationDelayed KB 11593 - Alert - A160116 - FileServerSsrSnapMigrationFailure KB 11649 - NCC Health Check: recovery_plan_vm_attachment_ngt_capability_check KB 11873 - NGT management from Prism Central

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of September 2021.KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] – G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1540 - [AOS Only] What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory on a Controller VM (CVM) is full KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 4158 - Alert - A1104 - PhysicalDiskBad KB 8378 - NCC Health Check: Check Interface Configuration Files KB 1113 - HDD or SSD disk troubleshooting KB 4409 - LCM: (Life Cycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 6153 - NCC Health Check: default_password_check and pc_default_password_check KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 10908 - CVM in a boot loop after a reboot or an upgrade KB 5228 - NCC Health Check: pcvm_disk_usage_check KB 3827 - Alert - A130087 - Node Degraded KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 3357 - NCC Health Check: ipmi_sel_cecc_check/ dimm_sel_check KB 9437 - How to