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What is FLR? What’s the purpose of the /flr endpoint? 

Trying to save Nutanix Bible to read as e-book offline. Can’t print page to PDF as most of grafics can’t save

Hello guys,Is it possible to extend ACI VxLAN to Nutanix AHV OVS (using Opflex agent maybe), in other words can we integrate it to ACI ?

I can ping to AHV from my pc. I can ping to CVM from AHV via address 172.x.x.x  and internal address 192.x.x.x But I Can Ping To CVM From My PC.

Want to know the maximum number of VLAN(802.1q) interfaces than can be created on each bridge of AHV. I cannot find any documentation or matrix about this. Thank you.

Recycle bin feature is available from AOS 5.18 onwards. With help from Nutanix Support, the recycle bin tool helps you to restore deleted storage entities (guest VMs and volume group vDisks) and manage the recycle bin itself.After you delete a guest VM, the configuration file and disk remain in the recycle bin for up to 24 hours. After 24 hours, these files are deleted. The files are deleted in less than 24 hours if your cluster is unable to maintain sufficient free disk space.Recycle Bin Limitations and Guidelines The recycle bin stores vDisk and configuration data for up to 24 hours. After 24 hours, these files are deleted. The files are deleted in less than 24 hours if your cluster is unable to maintain sufficient free disk space. Recycle bin is not supported on storage containers where metro availability is enabled. Recycle bin is not available for recovering protection domain snapshots. You can disable and enable the recycle bin or clear its contents. As a default, the recycle

How do I check hot and cold data by virtual machine? I'm going to migrate the virtual machines of the existing nodes to the node that I'm going to buy new ones. So, I'd like to check the hot and cold data of the virtual machines, respectively.

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of March 2021.KB 7503 - NX Hardware [Memory] – G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy 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 KB 4409 - LCM: (Life Cycle Manager) Troubleshooting Guide KB 9937 - Alert ID 111066 - Failed to send alert emails KB 4158 - Alert - A1104 - PhysicalDiskBad KB 6945 - How Upgrades Work at Nutanix KB 2090 - AHV host networking KB 2473 - NCC Health Check: cvm_memory_usage_check KB 3784 - Alert - A1030 - StargateTemporarilyDown KB 4519 - NCC Health Check: check_ntp KB 5582 - NCC Health Check: idf_db_to_db_sync_heartbeat_status_check KB 3741 - Nutanix Guest Tools Troubleshooting Guide KB 1863 - NCC Health Check: sufficient_disk_space_check KB 7386 - NCC Health Check: power_supply_check KB 6153 - NCC Health Check: default_password_check and pc_default_password_

We have 3 nodes with 2x960GB SSD and 4x4TB HDD.We need to expand storage (and storage only as it is going to be used to store cold data - we do not need additional processing power or RAM)Question 1: We simply added two 12TB HDDs to each node. Now each node has 2x960GB SSD, 4x4TB HDDs, 2x12TB HDDs. Everything is working fine, but we were told that this is not recommended. What is the problem with this configurationQuestion 2: Assuming the configuration in Q1 is not recommended and we want to end up with each node having one type of HDDs. We were told that we can upgrade the existing 4TB HDDs with 12TB drives. What the right procedure would be:  a) Mark one 4TB drive for removal, remove it, insert 12TB drive in place of removed 4TB drive. Repeat 4 times for a node. Resulting configuration - 6x12TB HDDs per node  b) Add two more 12TB drives first, then mark for removal and remove four 4TB drives (one by one). Resulting configuration - 4x12TB HDDs per node (preferred configuration by us)T

Hardware failures are a part of any datacenter lifecycle. The Nutanix architecture was designed with this inevitability in mind. A cluster can tolerate one or two failures (depending on the replication factor of the cluster or container) of a variety of hardware components while still running guest VMs and responding to commands through the management console. Many of these failures also trigger an alert through that same management console in order to give the administrator a chance to respond to the situation.Nutanix provides the ability to tolerate rack failures for extended data availability, in addition to drive, node, block, and network link failure.Block fault tolerance lets a Nutanix cluster make redundant copies of data and metadata and place the copies on nodes in different blocks.A block is a rack-mountable enclosure that contains one to four Nutanix nodes. All nodes in a block share power supplies, front control panels (ears), backplane, and fans.Nutanix offers block fault

Failures are part of everything and Nutanix Clusters is not immune to it. But how we plan for failures determines the versatility of the product or a person for that matter!!Nutanix categorizes the type of failures into availability domains essentially based on type of failure. Nutanix provides the ability to tolerate rack failure for extended data availability, in addition to drive, node, block and network link failure. Node FailureA Nutanix Node comprises Physical host and a controller VM. Both these components can fail without any impact to the Nutanix cluster.CVM failureWhen a CVM fails, an alert is generated in Prism and another CVM redirects the storage path on the related host to another CVM. Read and writes will occur over the 10GbE network until the CVM comes back online.It is business as usual for the end customer with maybe a slight performance decrease.Controller VM FailurePhysical Host failureIf a node fails, all HA-protected VMs can be automatically restarted on other nod

Hi folks, In VMware, we need to enable EVC to be able to do vMotion between diff processors, what about AHV? what should be done or is it working smoothly?

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of March 21-27, 2021.KB 10516 - [ Karbon ] PE cluster is showing alerts for VGs used by the Kubernetes cluster(s) KB 10651 - NCC Health Check: metering_rest_connection_check KB 10768 - A number of VMs may be missing from the list when monitoring cluster using SNMP protocol KB 10813 - "UnicodeDecodeError" and "UnicodeEncodeError" for VM operation KB 10936 - Duplicate scheduled reports triggered after Daylight Savings Time (DST) change KB 10946 - Identifying the source IP generating TCP Reset packets in a network path KB 10953 - Using Nutanix Objects Self-Signed Certificate with Veritas Enterprise Vault KB 10954 - SMCIPMITool commands output "The node product key needs to be activated for this device" on BMC 7.10 KB 10967 - Cloning a Secure boot enabled VM on AHV with the "Custom Script" option enabled fails with "q35 machine type does not support ide bus type" error KB 10976 - Cluster instability after upgrading both primary an

NVIDIA GPUs primarily have two modes of operation: Compute and Graphics.Compute Mode: the GPU operates within a configuration that is optimized for high-performance computing applications.Graphics Mode: the GPU is optimized for graphics processing and can subsequently be assigned into vGPU profiles for virtual machines (vGPU profiles cannot be used while in compute mode).Various NVIDIA GPUs are provided with default configurations for either of these modes and, sometimes, it is necessary to change the mode to better suit the corresponding workload of the host.In previous models of GPUs, it has been necessary to temporarily boot an AHV host into a NVIDIA-provided Linux ISO and invoke a “gpumodeswich” command with options to apply this change. With newer models of GPU, a command can be found natively within the AHV host filesystem after the corresponding GRID driver has been installed.You can find more information regarding this command via the “Nvidia: Unable to Assign vGPUs to guests w

We have numerous clusters and each have their own hardware platform (and in a couple of cases, we’ve even mixed hardware models within the same cluster). Our current Nutanix footprint;VENDOR         MODELS        NODE COUNTSuper Micro    NX-8155-G7    12Super Micro    NX-1175S-G6    7Super Micro    NX-3060-G7    6Dell                 XC630-10         14Super Micro    NX-8035-G7    12Super Micro    NX-8035-G6    36Is there a preferred or recommended solution for hardware monitoring and alerting? For instance; Dell OpenManage (DOM) or Supermicro Server Manager (SSM). I don’t readily know if either would support the others solution (like DOM supporting IPMIs or SSM supporting iDracs) Or, would Prism Central (and Prism Element) be sufficient for hardware monitoring and alerting?We currently have and are using DOM but not for the SuperMicro hardware so I’m wondering if I’m potentially missing out on a better solution or not.

Nutanix Era is a suite of software which automates and simplifies database management, bringing one-click simplicity and invisible operations to database provisioning and lifecycle management (LCM). Starting with Copy Data Management (CDM) as its first offering, Nutanix Era enables database admins to provision, clone, refresh and restore their databases to any point in time. Through a rich, but simple to use, UI and CLI, they can restore to the latest application-consistent transactionEra enables you to easily provision database environments (either production or otherwise) on your Nutanix clusters. Also, you can only provision the database server VM that hosts a database, so that you can later create or clone databases on that database server.Some of the components include Database engines: Custom software images that are tailor-made to enterprise needs. Database profiles: Customizable database profiles for software, compute, networking, and database parameters. Database recovery

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of March 14-20, 2021.KB 9365 - Alert - A802002 - AncDnsUnresolvable KB 10693 - Alert - A130334 - NGT CD-ROM not Unmounted on the VM KB 10694 - Alert - A130192 - Conflicting NGT policies KB 10746 - AHV Guest VM Boot Order Being Modified to Default by Prism After Any Config Save KB 10847 - LCM Pre-check: "test_ncc_checks" KB 10857 - UVMs with VLAN tag may disconnect from network when uplink bond is tagged with VLAN on AHV host KB 10874 - VM migration tasks stuck and libvirt in inconsistent state on clusters running AHV 20170830.x KB 10897 - Xi Frame - Enterprise profile disks growing on every reboot (not extending their partition) KB 10912 - Nutanix Files: Managing Files-At-Root on NFS distributed shares KB 10944 - Alert - A130103 - NGT Mount failed KB 10957 - AHV networking interfaces are renamed after AHV upgrade to 20201105.1082 or later if RDMA NICs are presentNote: You may need to log in to the Support Portal to view some o

 A single-node cluster is configured like a regular (three-node or more) cluster in many ways, but here are some of the conditions. Nutanix offers the option of a single-node cluster for ROBO implementations and other situations that require a lower cost option and accept lowered resiliency protections. Single-node clusters are supported only on a selected set of hardware models. Refer the following article for details single-node-supported-hardwares Do not exceed a maximum of 1000 IOPS Do not exceed a maximum of 5 guest VMs . To protect the guest VMs from a scenario of node failure, nutanix recommends to configure backups. These are unlike single-node replication targets which are for replication and backup purposes. LCM is supported for software updates, but not firmware updates.  There is no built-in resiliency for Prism Central on a single-node cluster. Do not create a Prism Central instance (VM) in the single node cluster. Async DR is supported for 6 hour RPO only Use

From the Nutanix Bible: “when a Curator full scan runs, it will find eligible extent groups which are available to become encoded. Eligible extent groups must be "write-cold" meaning they haven't been written to for awhile”.I have 2 questions:if I have some data just written in the oplog, how long takes to copy those datas in the extent store, assuming that there is not any read of it?Once the data are in the extent store, how long it takes before the erasure coding is applied to the datas? 

Is there a command to update a vm’s custom script/user data?I tried the following and it doesn’t work:<acropolis> vm.update  my-vm cloudinit_userdata_path=file:///tmp/user-data.txt

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

Are there ANY plans to expand on the PowerShell cmdlets at all, specifically for getting host info? They’re pretty bare bones. I don’t even know the last time the cmdlets were updated/expanded. It seems to me Nutanix regrets making them and hopes they will quietly die. I have relied heavily on PowerShell to keep tabs on a very large Nutanix environment running Nutanix on both AHV and ESXi. I’m talking 700+ nodes. The ESXi clusters are no problem getting the info from because I use VMware’s PowerCLI to supplement the lack of data I can get with Nutanix Cmdlets, but the AHV clusters are another story since I don’t have PowerCLI to fall back on. Can we at least get a cmdlet that will allow us to use PowerShell to initiate ncli or acli commands, like VMware does with the “Get-EsxCLI” cmdlet. That would be very helpful.

I’m sure you have seen that one before. In most cases you expect it or at least understand what caused it. In some instances you probably ignore it (we all do, no shame). What if this happens when you log into the CVM or the host? Has cluster security been compromised?During the upgrade or rescue of the AOS new keys are created for each node in the cluster. When you open SSH session, these keys are compared to those that were noted on the client previously and since there is a mismatch a warning is triggered.KB-2388 Upgrade/Re-install of AOS changes the ssh key for remote host identification explains how to clean up the keys to get rid of the warnings.

Hi Community,Version and model - NX-1065-G6I have a faulty DIMM in one node.  Memory | Uncorrectable ECC (@DIMMC1(CPU2)) | AssertedI would like to remove it from the node and restart it. i.e. Not to replace it with a new memory module.Is this possible? Risks? How should I configure the node with the missing DIMM, or is it something that Nutanix takes care of automatically? Any other advice? Recommendations?I found this document. Is this the correct one to follow?Cheers!

Hi,We are planning to move to Nutanix in our organization. One of the application that is in the scope of this project is Splunk. We are a small environment and our Splunk data intake is around 30GB/day and the setup is mainly used as a SIEM.We have received a few recommendation to isolate Splunk to a separate cluster. Is this necessary, or can we have it on the same cluster if we could guarantee the availability of resources for it? The cluster will host a few application and some infrastructure component like AD and DNS.Are there any major benefits if we isolate Splunk in a different cluster?