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New KB Articles Published on Week Ending March 9, 2024

Below are new knowledge base articles published on the week of March 3-9, 2024.KB 16144 - Nutanix Files - "Server has no Shares" error in PC...
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Top KB Articles for February 2024

Below are the top knowledge base articles for the month of February 2024.KB 6082 - inode_usage_check fails due to large amount of email file...
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Help us help you! Assign Support Contact to your Nutanix assets.

We know you care about your infrastructure. Every time and auto support ticket is created for one of Nutanix clusters a Support Engineer con...
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andymlloyd
andymlloydTrailblazer
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Nutanix GITHUB

All, For info there is a lot of great information, scripts, worked code and examples in the official Nutanix GitHub. Check it out here : [url=https://github.com/nutanix]https://github.com/nutanix[/url] Regards to all Andy [user=95361]andymlloyd[/user]

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andymlloyd
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nfrederickxVoyager
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List current snapshots via a script

Hi, I`m very new to Nutanix and have a question. Does anyone know if there is a way to list all current snapshots via a script? I`d like to find out if there are any lingering snapshots that should be removed. Thanks for any advice you might have.

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andymlloyd
5 years ago
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PrivIaaSVoyager
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Create managed network with PowerShell

Hi All I've rather large number of non-managed and managed networks to create on multiple clusters and really am not willing to be creating them manually. I've created PowerShell script to create non managed networks, that was pretty easy. However, I'm finding it a bit more challenging to create managed networks using PowerShell commandlets. I understand that the command should look something like New-NTNXNetwork -Name "vLAN_Name" -VlanId "vLAN_ID" -ipconfig "IpConfigDTO" I can not find any samples of IpConfigDTO format. I understand that IPv4 default gateway address and subnet in CIDR notation should be provided as values but I can't work it out how. Any assistance would be much appreciated. Cheers

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theGmanTrailblazer
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Pulse: PE or PC?

Our CVMs are locked down tight, I have no intention of allowing any internet access to PE, all support actions must be done through a webex session where our admin grants control to the support tech. but I have PC set up for NAT so it can communicate outside our private network. my question is, will pulse work strictly through PC or does PE need to be set up for it? Everything i see documented is about PE talking to insights.nutanix.com.

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CitrixGuy1987
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Script to power on VM

Looking for a simple script to Power on a shutdown Nutanix VM. Perhaps there is already a thread on this but I couldn't locate it if so. Thanks!!

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andymlloyd
5 years ago
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JamesCookWayfarer
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Using Visual Studio Code with Nutanix Cmdlets

I am a huge VS Code user, all I do is run my scripts/codes for local/remote/cloud products within VS Code. So I am now trying to get it so I can compile and run Nutanix Cmdlets within VS Code. I am trying to find the neatest, safest and most maintainable way possible without putting at risk the core of PowerShell. I've only found one post where someone has mentioned doing this and it was by installing the Nutanix Cmdlets and copying the contents of the module's folder into "C:\Windows\System32\WindowsPowerShell\v1.0\Modules". Maybe possible but there are over 200 items that would need copying into the root of this folder, seems messy to me. Can a sub folder called Nutanix be created for the contents to be copied too? Is there a better way to achieving what I feel be a great tool for all? Advice/support much appreciated :nerd:

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aluciani
5 years ago
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GoMarVoyager
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Script for Last Logon of Windows 7 VM?

Hi, I'm relatively new to Nutanix, so I'm still learning the concepts and terms. But I was wondering if it was possible to develop a Powershell script, for the purpose of getting the last logon of Windows 7 workstations running as VM's in our environment. The script would run from a central location on our network, so it would have to access AHV and then somehow be able to grab the last logon time in the guest OS by the user who "owns" the workstation. We determine who owns the virtual workstation, by determining the sole user listed in the Remote Desktop group. We can do this, in VMWware for Windows 10 workstations; but I've been told that it's a little more tricky to develop such a script for Windows 7 running on Nutanix. Any help or guidance would be greatly appreciated, so that I could get a starting point. Thanks.

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aluciani
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theGmanTrailblazer
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Nutanix alerts

IF an admin resolves an alert but doesn't fix the condition, does the alert retrigger? and if yes, how long before it does? Thanks in advance.

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aluciani
5 years ago
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Manuel80Explorer
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Identical VM and Nutanix deduplication

Hello, I need to understand if Nutanix deduplication works weel for optimize capacity if I have two identical VM (for example two Windows VM with DFSR. Thanks Manuel

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theGmanTrailblazer
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Unauthorized for Nutanix REST API. check username and password

I am trying to connect Zenoss to Nutanix Prism cluster and have provided the monitoring guys a user name and pw along with cluster IP. They are getting errors trying to connect, the error is in title of this post.. unauthorized for Nutanix REST API. check username and password So I then provided the monitoring guys the nutanix account and pw and it still spits out the same error. Please advise. I have to be missing something here.

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theGmanTrailblazer
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a simple LCM question

I'm new to Nutanix, and have a basic question pertaining to keeping drivers and firmware in the server up to date with LCM. We have Dell XC640 servers running VMware ESXi. Am I too assume the LCM is going to provide all the drivers and firmware required for the stack? Documentation states that Dell provides the payload, LCM installs it. I want to validate after updating the hosts with LCM if that's all that I need to do. Does this also update the VMware Ethernet driver? It seems to good to be true that LCM would actually do that as well. Looking for some guidance on this so that I have a solid game plan that I can document moving forward.

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itguyadamAdventurer
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Running SSH commands on CVM via Ansible

Hello, Just wondering if there is anything special about running CVM commands via ansible or other non-interactive session tools? The ansible ping module works just fine but when I start using Nutanix specific commands i get errors telling me that "no such file exists." The commands i'm running are "cluster status" and "ncli rsyslog-config get-status" These obviously work in a regular interactive session but not with ansible. Am i missing a path variable declaration or something? Are the commands only available via interactive sessions(if that is even a thing)? Thanks Update: a coworker who is better at linux than I am said that the profile probably isn't loaded the same so I need to fully source all the commands. So right now I'm doing my best to find them and running them that way. So far so good. /home/nutanix/cluster/bin/cluster status

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Diwakar.sharmaWayfarer
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VM's uptime get reset in vCenter after migrating the VM when we put host into maintenance mode from CVM's Putty Session

Recently i have upgraded some Firmware for one of the cluster. Firmware upgrade has migrated all VMs to other host and put the host into maintenance mode. i was cross checking the behavior on vcenter and found in tune as per process but after migrating all VMs to other host it reset the uptime for all migrated VMs in vcenter logs/view. but when checked guest os uptime then it was older than vcenter info. (VMs were not rebooted). i am unable to understand that, is it a bug or do i have an issue with Nutanix cluster.

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RichardsonPorto
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
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hienleOutrider
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Nutanix AsyncDR supports OEM hardware?

As the title stated, does someone know whether I can run AsynDR on OEM hardware just as Dell, Lenovo... or not? I have a customer wanting to create a AsyncDR session to backup files from a Nutanix cluster to a Nutanix on Dell servers. Is there any limitation so far? Thanks.

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RichardsonPorto
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
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Xavier95Pathfinder
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script to update categories and projects

I have a bunch of VM (>300) converted from vmware, and I have to classify them with categories and projects. I tried in powershell with the rest API, but when I GET the VM characteristics and use ConvertTo-Json to build new json file, it does not "expand" embedded arrays like disk_list, nic_list... so cannot send the PUT request correctly Does someone have an example to set/update categories and project for a VM ?

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rhunt
5 years ago
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HongAdventurer
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Nutanix Storage capacity and resiliency(three questions)

I have three questions. Please answer. 1.For example, we are using three nodes. There's a resiliency warning for prism because of the high utilization of storage. Then there was a problem in use and one node failed. I wonder what happens in this case. What kind of error is caused? Can we keep the service? 2.What's the maximum storage utilization that Nutanix can continue with its services? 3.What happens when storage utilization is 100%?

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RichardsonPorto
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
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JamesFoxVoyager
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ESX host to AHV

Hi all, I have a production ESX cluster and an AHV cluster (currently Dev but will be live soon) and I want to move a couple of hosts out of the ESX cluster and then expand the AHV cluster. I want to make sure I have the correct process and do not miss anything but couldn't find this specifically documented anywhere. Has anyone done this already? current plan is - - Cluster checks. - maintenance mode esx host to move all VMs off. - shutdown CVM and allow maintenance mode to complete. - remove VMhost from the prod vmware cluster in vSphere. - remove from Nutanix cluster using the option in Prism. - wait for Nutanix to remove the node. - Expand the AHV cluster adding the released ESX host. Any comments or advise would be welcome. Thanks.

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DavidN
5 years ago
aluciani
alucianiChevalier
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Debating the topic of versioning REST APIs

Raghavan Kollivakkam (Director of Engineering) recently put up a post on our developer blog titled - [url=https://developer.nutanix.com/2019/06/06/rest-api-versioning-a-misunderstood-soul/?utm_source=community&utm_medium=topic&utm_campaign=commuity_topic]REST API Versioning – A Misunderstood Soul[/url] - It's a good read. Have any comments? reply to this post and lets have a conversation.

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aluciani
5 years ago
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dprince-qtsVoyager
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Getting started with the Foundation API

I'm starting to explore the foundation API for potential to automate the imaging process of new Nutanix clusters. Do I need to have the Foundation VM running and connect to TCP/8000 on that? Can I leverage Portable Foundation?

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RAMAKRISHNA PILLAI ANEESH
5 years ago
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cgitshuttleVoyager
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SAS vs SATA SSD Throughput

We are looking to make a hardware purchase in the near-term and have a question: Is there a necessity to go with SAS versions of SSD's? Or, are SATA versions sufficient? Also, we are weighing the options of the all-flash and hybrid (SSD & HDD) storage models. Please provide your experience with either. Thank you in advance for your response, -Tom

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DavidN
5 years ago
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NandaAdventurer
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Snapshot creation

Please help on where are the created snapshots stored in Nutanix

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5 years ago
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williambiiiPathfinder
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SR-IOV & Nutanix

Hi, I am currently working with a customer who is looking into Nutanix and we are planning a POC. They have large VMWARE environment running 6.7. They have some applications that require SR-IOV. If we decide to go to Acropolis, is SR-IOV supported in Acropolis or is there a feature similar to that available natively on Nutanix? Many thanks.

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rhunt
5 years ago
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cirventAdventurer
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v3 - Error 403 api/nutanix/v3/vms/list

Hello All, I can not list the VMs with the v3 version, I have the same error with the API explorer, I have an error 403, my cluster is in version 5.5.3.1 can you help me? Code: [code]$username = 'admin'; $password = "pass"; $url2 = "https://a01ntnx003:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/list"; $data_string2 = '{\"kind\":\"vm\"}'; $ch2 = curl_init($url2); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_CUSTOMREQUEST, "POST"); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, $data_string2); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_HTTPAUTH, CURLAUTH_BASIC); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_USERPWD, "$username:$password"); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, true); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, false); curl_setopt($ch2, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, false); $data3 = curl_exec($ch2); [/code] Error: [code]{ "state": "ERROR", "code": 403, "message_list": [ { "message": "Requested action is not supported.", "reason": "ACTION_NOT_SUPPORTED" } ], "api_version": "3.0" } [/code]

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mgrubb
5 years ago
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SaleemmekVoyager
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Difference between AOS , Foundation and Hyervisor

Hello Experts, I am new to Nutanix world and in middle of acquiring basic knowledge. In Prism console under software upgrade, i can see that there are components like AOS , Foundation and Hypervisor. My understanding is that the Acropolis ( AOS ) software is installed in CVM and CVM is called as Foundation. Hypervisor is either AHV or Vmware or HyperV. Is my understanding is correct ? Please clarrify Thanks Sam.

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5 years ago
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guifAdventurer
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Inventory with API

Hi, Is there a way to see/export the Hostname and IP of the VMs with the API via cURL? Anybody have an example o extract this information? Thanks Regards

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sandeepmp
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago

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