How It works

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

Please help: When we have couple of vdisks in Volume Group can we delete that Volume Group? If yes, what happens to the vdisks which are already in that deleted volume group?

Please Help: As per this video, when the new data is written to the cloned/snapshotted vDisk, what happens when we delete a snapshot? Say we created three snapshots and deleted a second snapshot which have new data written while the base vDisk was read only, what happens to the newly written data? Will it be committed to the base vDisk or the current state snapshot will be alive and other will be deleted? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uK5wWR44UYE

Please help on where are the created snapshots stored in Nutanix

While creating the VM, is there a way to change the boot sequence? If no, how does Nutanix boot up the loaded image iso?

If we use the ESXi/Hyper-v as the Hypervisor, does the Satadom will be formatted(Removing AHV) and then install ESXi? What happens to CVM in this case? Any manual operation is required?

I'm having an issue disabling client authentication via REST API. Here is my code: code:$disableauth = @{ value='false'}$disableauth = $disableauth | CovertTo-Jsontry { $r = Invoke-RestMethod -Method Post -Uri https://clusterip:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v2.0/authconfig/client_auth -Headers $head -ContentType $content -Body $disableauth } catch { $_.Exception.Message; } When I run this command, it gives me an error of "request aborted: could not create SSL/TLS secure channel". I have a similar call I use to enable authentication, which works without issue.

Hi all. I have read the document about the different failure scenarios. For me it is still not clear, what really happens, if the data resiliency status is still critical and another node fails. In the doc I read this: With two sets of physical disks that are inaccessible, there would be a chance that some VM data extents are missing completely. In our starting time when using Nutanix (version 3.x) I remember our Nutanix partner was telling me, in such a case the cluster stops to make sure data keeps consistent. Do I have some UVMs that are not working any more correctly or is cluster stopping and all UVMs are stopped? Thank you very much. Kind regards, Stefan

Please help me with the following: Where do the AOS sit? Is it inside the CVM or on the SATA DOM? Is AHV created when the AOS is installed or vice versa

Hi In my previous publication, publish version v1.2. (https://next.nutanix.com/scripts-32/nutanix-tools-for-ahv-v1-2-32075) It was updated to v1.3 and it already extracts new information. The status of the NGT TOOLS, description, etc. and many new key validators to avoid problems. Additional I add a small script to obtain the information of the connection of the cluster to the TOR switch and the physical ports. Please check the github for more information. https://github.com/dlira2/Nutanix-tools-for-AHV I use the script in large accounts with more than 1000VMs and it works optimally.

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

Hello, I want to share a development in python to collect information from the Nutanix cluster with AHV, very similar to an RVTOOLS. I have it published in Github. I hope you find it useful. Any questions or queries can write to dlira96@gmail.com https://github.com/dlira2/Nutanix-tools-for-AHV Example running : Example INFO: Summary VMINFO : And lot more info SUMMARY VM INFO with Prism Central info ( Project ) VM DISK INFO VM NETWORK STORAGE CONTAINER HOST AHV VOLUME GROUP VDISK INFO IMAGE The name of the file for the output of the script is something like this: NTNX_VM_INFO_PE_(ST-NTNX-01)_DATE_(11_04_2019_17_12HRS).xlsx

Hi, I've been trying to get access to PE Health Status (e.g. Failed, Warning, etc) via CmdLets or REST API with no much luck. Any ideas? Cheers, Manuel

Hi Team, Please let us know how to get below values using v2 apiversion. Previously we are using apiversion v1 and getting metrics using /vms https://hostname4:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/vms/ Now with api version v2 we are not able to get below mentioned metrics hypervisor_cpu_usage_ppm not able to find this with both urls(vms,virtual disks) hypervisor_memory_usage_ppm not found memoryCapacityInBytes not found ipaddresses not found but found requested_ip_address are both same?? controllerVm not found Able to get few metrics using virtual_disks and above mentioned metrics we are not able to get, Are these not available in v2 or modified to anyother url.

Hi all, We are attempting to update our AOS offline (all of our clusters do not have internet access) and we have tried uploading via IE, FF and Chrome to no avail. IE "uploads forever" and Chrome and Firefox say "Server Error" everytime. We are way past due for an AOS update (5.1.0.3) and we are trying to get this done! I have a few other side questions as well -- Is the AOS upgrade process non-disruptive? I saw the KB about updating the AOS and it says the CVMs will reboot, but other than that it should be seamless, correct? We need to update our hypervisor (ESXi 5.5 Patch 10) and need some input there as well if possible here, since we are on a Nutanix node config and posting here seems like the right place. If not, please let me know! We are running a NX-1065-G4 ESXi 5.5 Patch 10 vCenter 6.0 AOS 5.1.0.3 NCC 3.1.3 Foundation 3.7.2 BIOS 2141203 BMC 01.92 LCM 1.0.e1416e5 HBA MPTFW-10.00.07.00-IT Any input on the order of operations

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.

We are on 5.10. I want to leverage the API(s) to remove disks from a VM, and then add new disks to a VM (using images as the sources). Which API should I use? v3 has "Update a existing VM" (sic) but I am unclear about how to (a) remove scsi:1 and scsi:2 and (b) add new disks (using images). The v2 API has "Detach disks" functionality. If I detach a disk does it get deleted? If not how do I delete it after detaching? "Attach disks" is also available in v2 but I don't see a way to use an image as the source (which I can do using ACLI). Thanks in advance for your responses.

Hello guys, Can anyone please help with NCC Health Check report on Email? The purpose is to receive NCC Health Check every week on Tuesday at 7.00 AM CET. I configured NCC report frequency via Nutanix Prism Central on each nutanix cluster But now I receive a report each Tuesday and Wednesday at 7.00 AM CET. I have tried a method to disable NCC frequency and setup it newly, but no results, no changes. For configuring I used guide - https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v55:wc-ncc-frequency-configuration-t.html Thank you in advance

"cluster -f destroy" does not help. This is a new cluster, but during one click ESXi upgrade, tasks for stuck and now nothing can happen. I am fed up with tasks getting stuck and not completing, I would like to destroy the cluster and individually update ESXi on each node. We are runing XC740xd-12

I am looking for a something that i can setup in an automated task on a server to poll for any active replications for Protection Domains and if true to pull information and email it. The output i am looking for in the email would be something like below. Protection Domain : ProtectionDomainName Replication Operation : Sending Start Time : 03/11/2019 12:00:02 EDT Remote Site : RemoteSiteName Snapshot Id : 2918635 Bytes Completed : 444.08 MiB (465,653,447 bytes) Snapshot Size : 2.57 GiB (2,760,598,528 bytes) Complete Percent : 95.38689 If anyone already has something like this setup that would be awesome, my scripting skills are slim to none so any help would be awesome.

Hello Guys, We´re currently trying to install a Big IP LTM image on Nutanix using acropolis however it´s not working... it seems we´re missing something. We´ve found a link in regards of this topic but we are receiving a message infoming we have no access to it. Does anyone know how we should proceed in order to install a F5 VE on Nutanix using acropolis? https://next.nutanix.com/archive-44/how-to-install-f5-big-ip-on-nutanix-ahv-8062# (not authorized to access) Thanks in advance!

Hi, I am not able to get Data Resiliency status using Rest api version v2.0. I see for v1 it is https://server_ip:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/cluster/domain_fault_tolerance_status Using v1 as well I am not able to get this metrics value. Please help us in getting Data Resiliency status using Rest api version v2.0. Regards, mallikarjuna

Hi Team, Previously we are using apiversion v1 and getting metrics using /vms https://hostname4:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/vms/ Now with api version v2 we are not able to get below mentioned metrics hypervisor_cpu_usage_ppm not able to find this with both urls(vms,virtual disks) hypervisor_memory_usage_ppm not found memoryCapacityInBytes not found ipaddresses not found but found requested_ip_address are both same?? controllerVm not found Able to get few metrics using virtual_disks and above mentioned metrics we are not able to get, Are these not available in v2 or modified to anyother url. Please let us know how to get these values using v2 apiversion.

In a Nutanix Cluster, if we have three hypervisors (say VMware / Hyper-V / AHV) if the AHV node is down, can the VMs from AHV node failover to Hyper-V or VMware hypervisors available in the same cluster in commercial edition of Nutanix.

I've written a PoSH script which does the following. Authenticates to Prism Central V3 API Calls /category/query API to get a list of VM uuid's that are members of the PROD category. Write this list of uuid's to a string Connect to the NTNX cluster using Nutanix PowerShell cmdlets. Iterate through the above string and execute Set-NTNXVMPowerState against the uuid's. Steps 1 - 4 work as expected. Step 5 seems to iterate through the list as it should but when I put in the Set-NTNXVMPowerState command to be executed, it throws an access denied error. Once the script gives the error, the powershell connection looks like it locks the account and you cannot execute any commands. If I comment out the foreach loop, and just execute a normal PoSH cmdlet (after the Connect-NTNXCluster) such as Get-NTNXClusterInfo, it works fine. I have tried both my account (which has Prism admin rights) and the Prism Central admin account with no luck. So 2 questions: Any ideas