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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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Muhammad Usman Ayub
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Network connectivity failure scenario

Hi folks, I want to ask about the details regarding the network connectvity failure and cluster behaviour in such cases. I am mentioning two such scenarios but other scenarios may also be possible. Scenario 1. If one host in the cluster gets completely disconnected from other nodes at network level but host is up and running what will be the cluster behavior and what will happen to the vms running on that particuar host Scenario 2. If all hosts in the cluster get disconnected from each other at network level but hosts and cvms are up and running, what will happen to the vms running on each host.

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Manuel80Explorer
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Mixed Hypervisor in same cluster ?

Hello, with latest AOS (5.10 or newer) it's possible to run multiple hypervisor in same cluster ? For example one cluster with 5 nodes with esxi and 3 nodes with AHV ? Thanks Manuel

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RichardsonPorto
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Stefano P.Wayfarer
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Space really available in a container with thick provisioned VM

Hi all, we are performing a POC and we have a cluster that originallly had about 30 Tib of available space made of SSD+ HDD. Then, to show the customer the performance improvement moving to All Flash we made an inline conversion addind SSD and removing all the HDD and now we have a total available space is about 11 TiB. The storage container has compression enable and the real used capacity is 4,5 Tib. The problem is that most of the VM are thick provisioned and the actual use space is reported at 12 Tib hence above the available capacity. This triggers RED alarms on the Prism console saying that he Data Resiliency is not available. So I have 2 questions: 1) since the actual used capacity is 4,5 Tib what happens in case of a disk failure? 2) how can we manage to eliminate these alarms? Question number 2) is particularly relevant since if we succeed in the POC and the customer could purchase Nutanix all flash systems , they will like to use th

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hpExplorer
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Is there a network status for Nutanix?

URLs such as insights.nutanix.com *.compute-*.amazonaws.com release-api.nutanix.com ... According to our security team, those URLs are white listed, so they must be down. e.g. "release-api.nutanix.com could not be reached. Please check Name Server and Proxy settings" Thx

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GavinS1991Voyager
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Files Layout

Hi All, Does anyone know how to get this View on files? Regards Gavin [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/8042916d-dcb4-4489-9cee-3c2c3ea507aa.png[/img]

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mmcghee
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Pawan_sahuVoyager
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DELETE cluster/nfs_whitelist/{name:.+}

I have been trying to remove an existing nfs whitelisted machine through Rest API explorer. API: cluster/nfs_whitelist/{name:.+} I have tried giving the path parameter with different combination of IP/sunbnet mask but all were failed with error message: Specified NFS Whitelist does not exist. Here, machine IP is whitelisted as I can see it in Filesystem whitelists but I am not able to figure out the exact representation of path parameter. If anyone knows, then please tell me. Thanks in advance.

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VAJeffVoyager
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AHV Replication Options

We are designing a Nutainx cluster utilizing a NX-1065-G5 four host block licensed with Prism Pro and Acropolis Ultimate. This will be the production site managing approximately 12 workloads. For the recover site we are looking at building a 3 host Dell cluster. The hypervisor throughout the environment will be AHV. There will be a Cisco metro network solution between these two sites. My question is, what are our options for replication between the two sites? The KB lists solutions for ESXi and Hyper-V, but does not mention AHV configurations. Is this because this is a native solution built into the Prism solution? Thank you for any enlightenment.

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Creating an Image (from URL) using Powershell

Hi Everyone, I am migrating VMs to AHV from XenServer. The process involves [list] [*]Copy XenServer VM Disks to Nutanix Datashare on XenServer [*]Create DISK_IMAGE from the disks copied on Nutanix DataShare [/list] The manual process is to create an image in Nutanix using URL nfs://Nutanix Host IP/SR Name/SR UUID/DISK UUID.vhd I am looking to automate this step using Powershell and Nutanix Cmdlets 'New-NTNXImage' Please help me on how can I create a image (source: URL) using powershell So far I have this, [code]$URL = "nfs://172.21.92.26/Xen_to_AHV_Migration/f63571ed-3fbf-80ba-f851-31767ad753fc/357527a6-e441-46e9-a680-f05f1af831aa.vhd" New-NTNXImage -Name "xenahvwintst - disk 1" -Annotation "Copied VM xenahvwintst - disk 1" -ImageType DISK_IMAGE -ImageImportSpec $URL [/code] I am not sure on how to include the URL into the command to create NTNXImage

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darshan.patel
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sdebrisAdventurer
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Is AF node also using cluster cold pool & clarifications on ILM thresold

Hello, I have questions on SSD pool and ILM mechanism I still did not found answers for after cross reading dozens of web sites and forums. Probably the response is obvious but I feel like I am missing something here and would like to have certainties on these points. So, let's suppose I have a 4 hybrid (1065) node cluster and I am running out of SSD. Q1) Can I technically add an All Flash node in the same cluster container ? Q2) Will the VMs hosted on this specific AF node automatically be all flash VMs (with no ILM and cold tier drain mechanism) ... or will they use the cluster cold storage pool (from other hybrid nodes) ? ===== Regarding the ILM mechanism and different SSD thresold, I (think I) understood that: - data will preferentially be stored on local SSD of each node until it reaches 75% usage - If one node reaches 75% of SSD usage, then ILM will send "less hotest" local SSD data over the network to other remote SSD nodes - If all nodes fi

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