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Hello, I will need to power off a "Metro Standby Site", which has VMs running on it. I would like to manually migrate those VMs to the primary (active) site and Shut down / Power Off the nodes in the Standby site approx. 24-36 hours. All VMs need to be running on the active side and no VMs are to be restarted (RTO + RPO =0). The steps I propose to take to achieve the goal are as follows: I have included as much environment info as possible. Any insight or corrections to this process are welcome. Thanks in Advance Phase I (Configure Standby Site) Disable/suspend the (x1) asynch PD (from Primary) Update VMware DRS Rules (Manual) (from Primary) Disable HA Manually perform vMotion of all VMs to active site. Configured VM affinities to the hosts of the primary site and set the DRS rules to Fully Automated. Create new VMGroup and Host Group if n

Using PowerShell and AOS 5.11 and same version cmdlets... I have an AHV VM in the object $VM that I retrieved from Prism Central. I'm trying to retrieve the NIC information but I keep getting an error: PS E:\Scripts> get-ntnxvmnic -vmid $vm.uuid -IncludeAddressAssignments Error occurred while getting NIC list of VM get-ntnxvmnic : The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error. At line:1 char:1 + get-ntnxvmnic -vmid $vm.uuid -IncludeAddressAssignments + ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ + CategoryInfo : InvalidArgument: (Nutanix.Prism.Common.NutanixCluster:NutanixCluster) [Get-NTNXVMNIC], WebException + FullyQualifiedErrorId : {"message":"Error occurred while getting NIC list of VM"},Nutanix.Prism.PS.Cmds.Acropolis.GetVMNIC I get a similar error if I specify the UUID (this VM only has 1 NIC): PS E:\Scripts> get-ntnxvmnic

There appears to be an issue with the latest Powershell Cmdlets for Version 5.11 that reports itself as Version 5.1.1 (not 5.11) so there is a mismatch. This will bring up a Warning dialogue box asking you if you want to continue with this mismatch (Cluster Version 5.11 and CmdLets Version 5.1.1). This can affect any Powershell Automation Scripts you have running that will be waiting for user intervention! You can change the Nutanix Connection method to Force the Connection using the following syntax: Connect-NTNXCluster -Server "Your server here" -UserName "Your user" -Password "Your password" -AcceptInvalidSSLCerts -ForcedConnection Note: It is the ForcedConnection that enables the bypass of the mismatch for your scripts. Hopefully they will update the Version with the next iteration of the Cmdlets without the apparent typo of 5.1.1 instead of 5.11. Please feel free to "Like" to mark as "Best Answer"

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Using PowerShell and AOS 5.11 connecting to Prism Central of mixed hypervisor environment (VMware and AHV), is there a quick way to return just the AHV VM's? I see there are some search string, filter criteria, etc.. options for Get-NTNXVM Right now, there are 1600 VMs and the ones I am looking for are AHV. I can retrieve the whole list from Prism Central but I wondered if I could have it only send a filtered list. $VMList = Get-NTNXVM | Where { $_.acropolisVm -eq "True" } but that reads all 1600 VMs from Prism Central... Thanks!

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

Good day I have a requirement to POC CloudFoundry platform(cf push). I have tried project-eirini running on Karbon k8s cluster, it works, kind of, BUT it is still on alpha . So it can't use it on Production. I researched a bit further to see if PCF(Pivotal CloudFoundy) can be installed on Nutanix and found there is no support for vanilla PCF on Nutanix. And the journey led me to this > https://github.com/nutanix/Cloud-Foundry-CPI-for-Nutanix-AHV Creating a CPI for CF on Nutanix. I need to know if this is worthy before I can invest time implementing. Has anyone implemented it? Is it production ready? (seeing it is part of nutanix GH repo) Thanks in advanced

Not sure why but there appears to be an absence of documentation pertaining to required ports that might need to be opened in a firewall to access the CVMs. Perhaps Nutanix thinks that organizations aren't going to firewall off the cluster to protect access from malicious users. If I'm wrong why don't I see a list of ports that are needed to access the CVMs rather than KB articles showing what outgoing ports are needed in a perimeter firewall? In order to properly protect a cluster the CVMs should sit behind a firewall, which in my architecture this will be the case before we go live with anything. In order for admins to access the CVMs through a firewall TCP 22 is needed for SSH, and 80 and 9440 are needed for accessing the web console. Is this is? or are there more ports that would need to be opened up for the various types of admin interactions? how about running cli tools against the cluster? how about

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.

Hi, My customer is considering leveraging NearSyncDR for their production clusters. Looks like I have to explain to them how NearSync should be configured and how it works to match their needs for future plan. As it matters, I have dived around Nutanix portal for some documents related to this technology but nothing explains clearly why it should run by its behavior in the example below: In the case I configured a schedule that repeats 1 min and retention policy of local cluster for 5 days, NearSync will work as that it will: Create a snapshot per minute and retain it for 15 minutes. Create hourly snapshots and retain for 6 hours. Create daily snapshots and retain for 5 days. So the question is if a snapshot A was created and deleted in 15 mins later, in the case user wanted to use this snapshot A to recover his file, how did he do? Is snapshot retaining time able to be changed by any command?

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

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.

Hi, I got a question during the test. Window VMs(C: drive) , linux VMs(df -h) capacity different those capacity in the prism(VM-table). Not all VMs are like this, only a few are like this. These VMs erased a lot of data and got a lot of capacity. The Curator has since been executed, but the capacity has not decreased inf prism-vm-table. Why can't Prism return a VM's erased data capacity value? How do I get Prism to read this capacity?

So I can use prism central to go into each project and get the access control list, which is group and role. I am unable to decipher the API to produce a comprehensive list of Projects with the associated Group with Role. Does anyone know the link between these sets of data? I can get individual lists. The Access_Control_Policy does not have the correct information. I have a particular role that does not show up in a dump of the acp list or details. I've looked by uuid and name. Thanks, Bill

This is my first script using the Nutanix provided Powershell cmdlets. Everything has been pretty straight forward so far. But i'm having one problem, i think someone will probably know off hand. I'm building a report. In this report it should have next snapshot time for protection domain (Easy enough). But also last snapshot created time (haven't found it yet). Anyone will ing to assist? I'll show the two object types i'm building already in the script. Basically PD's and Cron schedules. code:$pd = Get-NTNXProtectionDomain | where {$_.Active -eq $True}#Showing basically how the loop is setupfore

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 🤓

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!!

New version, Link Download: https://github.com/dlira2/Nutanix-tools-for-AHV/raw/master/NIACtool%20v2.3.rar code: Fix: 1) FIX BUG IF NO EXIT ANY NIC ON VM'S 2) FIX USECTIME TO DATETIME (ELEGIBLE) New info: 1) ADD DATA PROTECTION 2) ADD SNAP ON DATA PROTECTION Improvement: 1) STORAGE POOL NEW DISPLAY METHOD FOR SIZE POOL/DISK 2) CONTAINER NEW DISPLAY METHOD FOR SIZE POOL/DISK 3) SUMMARY, STORAGE CAPACITY NEW DISPLAY METHOD FOR SIZE 4) SUMMARY, CPU AND MEMORY MORE CLEAR INFO Visit for more info: https://github.com/dlira2/Nutanix-tools-for-AHV

code:Hello.My English is bad, so I use Google Translate and in advance I ask you to treat with understanding the semantic distortion.The problem is that we have deployed the ion electronic document turnover system (DV) on our Nutanix for testing. To test performance DV, they began to fill DV with a large number of copies of several files:File Quantity Sizefile1.pdf 1699713 314KB (321,942 bytes)file2.png 998001 203KB (208,689 bytes)file3.pdf 1138988 389KB (398 354 bytes)file4.pdf 1007002 504KB (516,306 bytes)file5.tiff 2271889 571KB (584,872 bytes)The mechanism of operation is as follows: the script records the file across the DV database. In this case, the database creates a record and writes the file to the SMB shared folder on another server. The server with the SMB shared folder is also implemented on Nutanix as a virtual machine.Total uploaded 2

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.

Hello Sirs! I just want to inquire and ask if anybody has an idea if Nutanix has a plan to automate the processes of doing a shutdown of the cluster, entering a Node to Maintenance Mode and exporting VM that resides to a nutanix cluster and integrate this basic operation to their Prism Element or Prism Central GUI just as what the other HCI vendors? currently I belive these things is done via CLI only. I know this is a easy task for a technical people and admin but I think it defies the "one click simplicity / one click operation" that is shown on presentation decks. It would be great and probably an additional edge if processes like this is automated. thanks 🙂

hello, I would like to know if, in addition to our AHV hypervisor on the NUTANIX, if it is possible to add the ORACLE hypervisor

I have lots of Protection Domains. I need to keep their schedules straight, prevent overlap, and report the schedules to management. I am not the only admin, so I cannot track the configuration manually. Is there a powershell cmdlet that presents this information? I cannot find it. I want to know the schedule and the replication information(sites and how many to retain). I'm not using protection policies, just old school PD. Thanks, Bill Beavis