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gajhScout
asked in Installation & Configuration

Disk selection when installing from ISO

Hi All,I have a HP GL380p G8 and I have 1x30GB SSD 1 x 400GB SSD 2 x 600 SASWhen i start the install it asks for the location to install the hypervisor, CVM and what are data disks.  Can I use the 30GB SSD for the hypervisor and the CVM. This will leave the 400GB SSD for performance tier and the 2 x 600GB for normal tier.

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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runningahvVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

AHV Node failed during LCM

I recently used LCM to update the firmware on my 9 node cluster. One of the hosts did not come back up. I was able to get it to reboot back into the host OS, but it had no network connectivity. The interfaces were up, IP address assigned, just no traffic passing through the bridge. After fighting with it for some time, I decided to eject the node from the cluster and just re-foundation a new one. I initiated the removal process, but the node status remains in MARKED_FOR_REMOVAL_BUT_NOT_DETACHABLE:nutanix@NTNX-<REDACTED>-A-CVM:10.1.153.30:~$ ncli host ls id=21    Id                        : 0005adca-5f30-1bf1-0000-000000008d15::21    Uuid                      : 705089f7-2435-4a35-83fe-603470bd36d6    Name                      : 10.1.153.15    IPMI Address              : 10.1.151.249    Controller VM Address     : 10.1.153.34    Controller VM NAT Address :    Controller VM NAT PORT    :    Hypervisor Address        : 10.1.153.15    Host Status               : MARKED_FOR_REMOVAL_BUT

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1 year ago
Muhammed Ashraf
Muhammed Ashraf
asked in Installation & Configuration

LACP Configuration with Nutanix (Server 2019 Hyper V)

Hi Team,I am planing to deploy Nutanix 3 node with Hyper V. so i want to know that intial deploymentcan I use LACP on Switch Side.please guide me LACP configuration for Nutanix side?Environment:Network : IPMI Hyperviser Management Subnet - 10 G Port 1 and 2 -LACP Guest VM Subnet - 10 G Port 3 and 4 -LACP Guest VM Second Subnet - 1 G Port 1 and 2 Two 10 G Switch Two 1 G Switch

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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spham68Explorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

How to update network on windows guest running on AHV?

We have created a new vlan for windows 10 VM and I wanted to update existing network to new network. I was not able edit the existing network and choose the new one, it is grayed out. Do I need to delete and re-add new nic and choose the new network? For ESXi, you simply browse the network and select the one you want and save it.

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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ThelmoVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Is it possible to install GPUs on Nutanix NX-8155-G6 block?

Hi Buddies!I would like to know if this possible to add GPUs card on a NX-8155-G6 hardware. I know that this model doesn’t came with GPU installed, but, is it possible to add it?

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Chaitrali Deshpande
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Nutanix Employee
nirmal.ravirajan-57912Nutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

NIC Firmware Upgrades in LCM

As the Nutanix Life Cycle Management (LCM) platform evolves, more firmware entities are added to the module. The latest addition are the NICs associated with Nutanix hardware.Starting in LCM 2.3.4, firmware updates for Mellanox and SuperMicro NICs on AHV and ESXi are supported. Currently, Hyper-V platforms and Intel/Silicom NIC cards are not supported.For more information about this feature and software requirements, take a look at KB 10073 found on the Support Portal.

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Pokket_SCSIExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

LCM show server error

I upgrade AOS 5.15.4  and i have AHV older version I need Upgrade AHV after by LCM I Click LCM and loading… long time and show massage server error i have question  ? LCM Need access internet  ?

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AnishWalia20
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Nutanix Employee
nirmal.ravirajan-57912Nutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

Discoveries Menu In Portal

The Discoveries menu in Portal is a new feature that allows customers to view critical issues in their environment with a more holistic approach. Using Nutanix Insights, Portal will provide this view based on Field Advisories, constant health checks, end of support equipment, etc.The Discoveries Details View provides the background, analysis, and corrective actions that can be done to remedy these issues. This will also give you the option to create a case based on the specific issue/topic.For more information, take a look at the “Discoveries Menu” in the Support Portal.

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

Enabling NGT And Mounting The NGT Installer Simultaneously On Multiple Cloned VMs

If you have cloned multiple VMs from a single VM (master VM), you can enable NGT and mount the NGT installer simultaneously on multiple VMs by using the master VM image.Before you beginEnsure the following before you perform this task: Install NGT on the master VM. Clone the required number of VMs from the master VM. Shut down the cloned VMs. Perform the following procedure to enable NGT and mount the NGT installer simultaneously on multiple VMs by using the master VM image.Note: After you perform the following procedure, you do not need to separately install NGT on the cloned VMs.Procedure For every cloned VM, log on to the Controller VM and run the following command.ncli> ngt mount vm-id=clone_vm_id Replace clone_vm_id with the ID of the cloned VM. To find the ID of the cloned VM, run ncli> vm list name="<clone-vm-name>" command. Note the value of the Id field as clone_vm_id.<ncli> vm list name="<clone-vm-name>"Id                        : 00058a81-64bb-2

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ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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mandgTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Revert cluster from RF3 to RF2?

I know that this question has been asked in this forum a few years back but I wanted to see if the answer changed since the newer releases of AOS.  In my case, I’m running AOS version 5.15.4 LTS and found that our 7-node cluster was configured for RF3 - although most of our containers are RF2 (the exceptions being the “NutanixManagementShare: and “SelfServiceContainer” containers).Since most of our containers are only RF2 I’m not too concerned about extra overhead but was curious if AOS now supports the switchback from RF3 on the cluster. 

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Sergei Ivanov
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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chenzh4Trailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

AHV live migration network in network segment enviroment

From the AHV Best Practices document,  live migration network is in host management network(br0).In the network segment enviroment, backplane is isolated in another network which maybe has high bandwidth, does the live migration has any change under this condition? or Live Migration network can do some setting like ESXi vmotion network?

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1 year ago
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SbhassounaAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration

VM foundation on Lenovo HX3321

Hello,I'm trying to setup four nodes on Lenovo HX3321 with vm foundation, but the vm foundation is not start.We have  verify the address vm foundation is correctvm foundation and IPMI same network can you help !!thanks. 

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1 year ago
Mo. Farid
Mo. FaridVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Rack Fault Tolerance

Hi all,How many blocks can be added in one rack? I mean min and max numbers.Thanks in advance.

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AnishWalia20
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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ArounaExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

AOS upgrade issue

I have a cluster of 6 nodes including 3 nodes 1065-G5 and 3 other nodes 1065-G6 which run a hyper-v.I wanted to update from Aos 5.10.5 to 5.17.1 through LCM but I am having issues with the processors.I therefore want to proceed node by node in maintenace mode.Can you give me the procedure for updating the aos by proceeding by this method?

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Pokket_SCSIExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Genesis restart when cluster start

after  change IPMI i found warning IPMI not match I see the reference https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Hardware-Admin-Ref-AOS-v5_17:ipc-ipmi-ip-addr-change-t.html how to step genesis restartI must stop cluster before ?i can run command genesis restart when cluster start ? Thank for support 

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LeandroWPaes
1 year ago
Muhammed Ashraf
Muhammed Ashraf
asked in Installation & Configuration

Server 2019 Hyper V with Nutanix ?

Please advise me is it support Server 2019 Hyper V on Nutanix? I unable to Find the article on Nutanix Portal with server 2019? I am planing to migrate from Server 2012 hyper v failover cluster to 2019 Server Hyper V failover Cluster? Which AOS Version is support Server 2019?

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
Eric-The_Viking
Eric-The_VikingTrendsetter
asked in Installation & Configuration

Prism Central 2021.1 oddities?

I have a couple of oddities going on, one is an ongoing and one was post latest PC2021. update.I was getting warnings that I was using the CVM default password so I chnaged it, it is supposed to replicate to the other CVMs but i get a health alert saying the remaining CVMs are still using the default password - any ideas why?And post PC update, i can log in using ssh but I can’t login to the web UI - I get the login screen , but after I enter username and password (not default) I get “server not available”  I have run health checks and idf checks and all seem to PASS - is there a bug in the latest PC Patch?  Just to note I can log into Prism Element with my name and password ok.Thanks in advance.

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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BegVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

How can the health log file be limited?

Hi,I have a small cluster of 4 nodes. Disk space usage for /home in all CVMs are increasing fast. After some investigation it appears that the /data/logs folder is taking majority of space, more specifically health_server.log file which is taking about 181gb now. 18133488        health_server.log.20201224-1413011144624 sysstats Does the health_server.log file keep collecting indefinitely, there must be a limit to this log file? Thanks.Beg

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AnishWalia20
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Didi7Trailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

How to delete old network switches visible in Prism Element

Hello everybody, i would like to remove a switch from the Network view in Prism Element, which also is no longer configured under Settings => Network Switch. The cluster was moved to different network a couple of months ago. So far I was unable to remove this old network swith from the Network view in Prism Element and it’s also no longer visible using ‘ncli net list-switch’ in CVM command line. There is only the existing switch configured under Settings => Network Switch. We use AOS 5.15.4 LTS currently. If I select ‘Go to Switch details’ when selecting the old visible switch in ‘Network’, I get an error => Switch with id ‘...’ was not found ! Any idea how I can remove such a switch, which is no longer available? Regards,Didi7

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1 year ago
Muhammed Ashraf
Muhammed Ashraf
asked in Installation & Configuration

How to Migrate Clusterd VM (SQL Cluster)

Hi All,How to Migrate Clusterd VM (SQL CLUSTER) from 2012 Hyper V Failover cluster to 2019 Failover Cluser?Source Infra:Hyper V2012 with Failover ClusterVM : 2012 VM (SQL Cluster, Shared Disk) Target Infra:NutanixHyper V 2019 

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
Muhammed Ashraf
Muhammed Ashraf
asked in Installation & Configuration

can we use 1 G port for Hyper VM Traffic on Nutanix?

Dear All,Can we use 1 G port for Hyper VM Traffic on Nutanix?

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

Nutanix Field Installation Guide for HPE ProLiant Servers

UPGRADING SERVER FIRMWARENutanix recommends that you use the Service Pack for ProLiant® (SPP) ISO file for applying firmware updates. Perform this procedure on every host in the cluster, one host at a time. About this taskTo upgrade the firmware on a server, do the following:Procedure If the server is part of a Nutanix cluster, place the server in maintenance mode.Information about placing a server in maintenance mode is available in the host management section of the Acropolis Command-Line Interface (aCLI) documentation. See the Command Reference for the supported AOS version. Turn on the server to the SPP ISO. Connect to the iLO by using the iLO IP address. Log on to the iLO user interface by using the administrator credentials.The default administrator user name is Administrator on all HPE® ProLiant® servers. Passwords for the iLO administrator differ from one server to another, and are available on the service tag on the server. Attach the SPP ISO to the server by usi

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ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Mann WaiWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Graceful Shutdown of Nutanix Cluster using Vertiv Liebert UPS

I have read the documents and manuals of APC PowerChute Network but it is a scenario that doesn’t apply to mean. Apparently, someone sold to the customer a Vertiv Liebert GXT4 UPS. Liebert’s engineers concluded that the product couldn’t provide a graceful shutdown of the Nutanix cluster, while it could shutdown the ESXi on top.Is there anyone out there who had succeeded in performing a graceful shutdown without APC?

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AnishWalia20
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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yhchoExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Contact (bare metal image) when adding new nodes.

We are planning to add new nodes to existing clusters.Before the extension, proceed with the new Node AOS install (Bare metal image) and then add.At this time, I want to know if there is no problem if the existing cluster AOS and the new AOS are different versions.ex) Existing Cluster AOS 5.10.9 / New Extension Node AOS 5.15.xPlease give me some advice.Thank you.

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
DavidN
DavidNTrendsetter
asked in Installation & Configuration

vSphere 7 Update 1 & vSphere Clustering Service (vCLS)

vCenter 7.0U1c and vSphere Clustering Service VMs on local or shared storage.After test upgrading vCenter from 6.5U3 to 7.0U1c (which worked just fine w 0 issues), every vmware cluster with DRS and/or HA enabled gets 3 new vCLS (very tiny VMs w 2GB storage/.13GB RAM).When NCC is ran it registers 3 WARNs that there are VMs running on the SATADOM’s. I would assume that, even what (little) they do (today), would this wear out Satadom’s or M.2’s?Would this be a concern for G4/G5’s (w Satadoms) and not G6/G7’s (M.2’s)?”While vCLS can be moved to shared storage, wouldn’t they be moved back to local storage during an NX cluster stop?(Like to point out this was done in a LAB environment, not in Production… no bits nor bytes were harmed during the upgrade progress.)

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DavidN
1 year ago

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