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Is it mandatory to give the bond name parameter while updating the uplinks in bridges?   -Jai

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of June 28-July 4, 2020. KB 9466 - Pre-Upgrade Check: test_is_nos_upgrade_supported KB 9541 - SSR with error "Disk attached successfully but partition couldn't be mounted" KB 9564 - Cost Governance Memory Metrics KB 9575 - Prism Metro Availability error: Prechecks for starting metro availability failed for the protection domain to the remote site KB 9601 - [Karbon 2.1] How to creat

hi team, i want to ask something, in my understanding nutanix can tolerates 1 node failure if I use rf 2 where the data will be replicated into 2 pieces, what happens if I have 10 nodes, how much nutanix can tolerance of node failure at the same time? it still tolerates only 1 node failure or any other mechanism? I am confuse after read this kb https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_17%3Aarc-host-failure-c.html

Hi Experts, Im new to Nutanix. I’d like to know why my guest OS build from my physical HP server can’t get an ip address? My physical server is connected to network however, on the created guest os, i can’t get an ipaddress from my dhcp. appreciate any help on this.    

I want to get login session information like vSphere. ```powerCLI $SessionManager = Get-View Serviceinstance.Content.SessionManager $SessionManager.SessionList ``` Can the same be done for Nutanix?

Hello guys,  I am a new Nutanix user and I wonder something about snapshots. I created two scenarios in  AHV. In the first scenario, I created a VM, created a PD with this VM and deleted the VM in Prism.I restored one of the snapshot and was able to restore the VM. Question : Will the PD be able to still work despite that the VM was restored with the same name (obviously some ID might have changed ?!).  In the second scenario, I created a VM but this time without PD. I created a snapshot using take snapshot within the VM options in Prism. Then I deleted the VM (with the option to delete snapshots not selected). I was able to see the snapshot using acli but the only way to recover this type of snap would be to specify the VM name which obviously does not exist in Prism anymore. Question : How can you recover from this situation ?  Sorry if the questions sounds stupid or if it has been answered before.

When you run ESXi hypervisor on Nutanix you may get a question: should I install VMware tools or Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT) or both? Are NGT and VMware tools compatible between each other? The answer is yes, they are compatible and can be both safely installed on the same virtual machine. If you install NGT in guest VMs, you can use the following advanced features (NGT applications): File Level Restore CLI Nutanix VM Mobility VSS requestor and hardware provider for Windows VMs Application-consistent snapshot for Linux VMs You can read in more details about the NGT here. VMware tools in turn has different features and a different purpose. Installing VMware Tools eliminates or improves t

Hi Experts, Would it be possible to do a mass migration from AHV Cluster to another AHV cluster? My objective is to free up the resources of my current AHV cluster and move other VM’s to the newly build AHV cluster. Appreciate your advice and best approach.

Logbay is a tool which helps in collecting logs sees fewer CVM/PCVM (Controller VM/PC VM) resources, such as CPU, memory, system partition /home disk space, and disk IO Easier and more flexible to use via cli, including for targeted time-windows or specific components Backward compatibility Logbay is supported from AOS 5.5.7 through 5.5.z, and from 5.9 and higher. AOS 5.5 through 5.5.6 requires the use of log_collector. Logbay is not supported with

Planning to upgrade the entire Nutanix environment? Here are a few tips and tricks to plan and perform the activity in a smooth manner.   If you are new to Nutanix upgrades, don't hesitate to check this KB out to understand the overview of upgrades at Nutanix.   When confused which component to upgrade first, below listed generic order can be of help.   Step Component Target Reboots On the fly Quick

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of June 2020. KB 4116 - Alert - A1187, A1188 - ECCErrorsLast1Day, ECCErrorsLast10Days KB 7503 - G6, G7 platforms - DIMM Error handling and replacement policy KB 1540 - What to do when /home partition or /home/nutanix directory is full KB 4141 - Alert - A1046 - PowerSupplyDown KB 7604 - Disk space usage for root on Controller VM has exceeded 80%

Hi Probably a very simply question and more of a sanity check. I have many Win 0S servers to perform OS upgrades on. Looking to do the following..   Ensure VM has ngt installed Power down VM Clone VM Power up clone, perform OS upgrade 2 weeks later delete original VM   I assume the powered down VM doesn't actively contribute to CPU usage but storage will be ring fenced. Therefore I will see storage decrease whilst I'm upgrading VMS and before I delete the original.   Any disadvantages to making the cloned VM my new production VM rather than the other way round?   Is it ok to delete the original VM which the clone is being based off?      

I’m running PC Scaleout (5.16.1.2) on ESXi and need to migrate all 3 nodes to a new datacenter cluster and datastore (same vcenter). Is there a recommended process for this or can I simply power down one of the 3 nodes, migrate it, power it up and wait for all cluster services to start, and then move on to the next one? 

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of June 21-27, 2020. KB 9565 - [Nutanix Objects] Deploy failure due to docker pull issues via proxy KB 9566 - Windows VMs May Lose Network Connectivity With VirtIO 1.1.5 KB 9572 - [Karbon] Cluster deployment fails with error message "CDROM device must have IDE or SATA type adapter". KB 9578 - Hyper-V: SCVMM cannot migrate VM because version on destination host is not compatible Note: You may need to log in to the

Hi Guys - Looking for some info with the powershell cmdlets I am writing a powershell script to list out all the ahv host name and ip address| cvm  name and ip address impi host name| ip address in a cluster What is the command to get the cvm name and their ip address in a cluster. I am not quiet sure about “Cluster Type and Region when I issue  Get-NTNXCloudCvm command… Any help would be much appreciated!   Thanks, Mahendra.

Have a situation where you need to upgrade cluster components or restart CVMs or hosts or just wish to check if your cluster health is normal?   Below listed are a few quick checks to evaluate the cluster stability. Note that the commands listed are to be run from an SSH session to any one of the CVMs in the cluster or PCVM where applicable.   No. Check Purpose CLI Command GUI method Expected output 1 Cluster services

Is there a cli command that will tell me which VMs do NOT have NGT installed? Is there a command that will show me CD-ROM status for all VMs? (e.g. No drive available, or drive not empty) I know about ncc health_checks ngt_checks ngt_installer_version_check Thanks  

Hello guys, currently we have converged infrastructure with Cisco UCS, netapp storage and virtualization with VMware , now we want to make this our DR and want to build primary DC with Nutanix HCI, so my question is can Nutanix AHV can replicate to converged DR site? Thanks....

Have you always wanted to get a peek into the network traffic flowing in and out of your Nutanix infrastructure? Whether you got your first IT job for years or been a veteran for several years, you would have definitely at some point been keen to get a detailed look at your network traffic.    At Nutanix, the AHV hypervisor is based on the open-source KVM module and uses the CentOS Linux distribution. And yes, it comes with the popular packet capture utility tcpdump.   A few examples when you would want to use tcpdump in your Nutanix infrastructure would be: VM(s) lose network connectivity on a particular host

Anyone have any insights to share about using the filter option in the /alerts/list API method in Prism Central? Here is that method in the documentation: https://www.nutanix.dev/reference/prism_central/v3/api/alerts/postalertslist/ It looks like there isn’t much information available about the filter option. I have found a (very) little bit of information online about FIQL, but I have no idea what field names are available for alerts in Prism Central.

Is there a way I can inject a NIC driver into the Phoenix.iso?  We use a Broadcom 10Gb and the firmware file is not present on the Phoenix.iso so it can’t load the nic’s.

The Nutanix REST API allows administrators to create and run scripts on their Nutanix clusters. On a Nutanix cluster: API v1 and v2 runs through the Prism service. API v3 runs through Aplos services. Both of the above are services running on a CVM/PC-VM in a Nutanix cluster. Prism: Prism is the management gateway for component and administrators to configure and monitor the Nutanix cluster. This includes Ncli, the HTML5 UI, and REST API. Prism runs on every node in the cluster and uses an elected leader like all components in the cluster. All v1 and v2 API calls runs through Prism. Aplos: It’s an intentful orchestration engine + intentful API proxy.  All v3 REST API calls runs through Aplos. Looking at the logs of the above 2 services can tell us a lot of things about our REST API and HTTP issues on PC-VM/CVM. The logs for these se

Hello Team, Do we have script which we can run to get the cluster details from Prism Central. Like Total CPU and usage CPU ,Total Memory and usage memory and same for storage, and also want to schedule that report in email. Please help me with script to get the details

We are using Image configuration to upload and convert the VHDXs and so far it works except when we attempt to upload 4K sector aligned VHDXs from an old HyperV cluster, the upload completes successfully but the conversion fails. Is it possible to migrate and convert 4K sector  aligned VHDXs to a Nutanix AHV cluster? Error:    

I am testing Postman for API calls and one of the errors I am getting is 502 - Oops Server Error, which is related to the Apache portion. Question is, which log contains this? I’ve checked all the logs in ~/data/logs/ and can’t find that response.