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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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 ?

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%?

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.

Raghavan Kollivakkam (Director of Engineering) recently put up a post on our developer blog titled - REST API Versioning – A Misunderstood Soul - It's a good read. Have any comments? reply to this post and lets have a conversation.

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?

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

Please help on where are the created snapshots stored in 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.

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); Error: code:{ "state": "ERROR", "code": 403, "message_list": [ { "message": "Requested action is not supported.", "reason": "ACTION_NOT_SUPPORTED" } ], "api_version": "3.0" }

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.

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

Hi Together, How does the nutanix cluster handle failures with following settings: Cluster Redundancy Factor -> 3 Container Replication Factor -> 2 1) How many disks or nodes can fail? 2) Does this settings make sense or should the Container RF always set to 3 when Cluster RF is 3? Thanks for clarification! Kind Regard Steve

Dear All, Currently my Nutanix cluster consist of 3 Nutanix block, 5 node running on AHV 20170830.171 1 block of 3 NX-1065-G5 node 1 block of 1 NX6035-G5 1 block of 1 NX6035-G5 Recently, one of the NX6035-G5 is down due to hardware issue. Somehow, all the VMs hosted on this node not able to auto failover to the others node. Upon checking with Nutanix, we were informed that the failover failed as we don't have sufficient available memory. We were told that AHV will perform the failover for all the fail VMs to one particular node which have sufficient resources to accommodate it; like moving the whole load from the fail node to another node. Previously we are using VMware where it will failover VM by VM to all the available nodes. Anyone encounter similar issue with AHV?

Hi, I am actually doing my end of study internship, My subject is " implementation of hyperconverged infrastructure" I want to know how to migrate VMs from a legacy infrastructure with vmware Vsphere 5.6 to Nutanix hyperconverged infrastructure with VMware vsphere thank you.

Does anyone have a working example?

Please let me know if there is any reason as why VirtIO is shipped separately?

Hi folks, I would like share with us the powershell script that use here in my company, this script do inventory of vms that run in nutanix environment AHV and collect the information like : name,servicevmexternalip,hypervisorFullName,blockModelName,cpuModel,numCpuSockets,numCpuCores, after collect we can export in csv and HTML to send by email Link to script: https://github.com/joaocsjr/powercli/blob/master/ntx-invetory1.ps1 Regards, Joao Castro