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rockstershinyAdventurer
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Can you use the Shared IPMI Port instead of a Data port for imaging?

Dear Nutanix community,Wondering if instead of a 10G/1G data port, you can use the 10Gb Shared IPMI port for Foundation imaging?Regards,

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M.RoweScout
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Installation Media Access Issues & Drive Access Troubles

Hello everyone, So I’m running into a couple of issues that have been preventing me from getting a CE install onto bare metal.The first (and my work around for it) is that downloading the ISO from the pinned Download thread simply fails when using Opera under Linux. A new tab pops up, looks like it’s going to download and then simply nothing else further happens. This does not seem to be a problem with Firefox. So I am able to copy the link from the thread in Opera, then paste the ISO URL into Firefox and successfully download it. The second, and show-stopper, issue is when attempting to boot off of the ISO. Here’s my environment:C6400 with two C6420 nodes.Node 1 currently is running ESXI while I am testing other hypervisors.Node 3 is the target.Nodes 2 and 4 are unpopulated.1 and 3 have identical hardware; 2x Xeon Gold 6130, 128GB RAM, 2x 250GB NVME drives internal, 2x 250GB SSD drives on the front bay. All passed through direct with a SATA controller, no RAID. The ISO is able to be m

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EricDaWayfarer
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Nutanix interop with existing Fiber Channel Tape library

We are thinking about going with an HCI and I was looking at my list of requirements. One is that we can use our existing Fiber channel attached Tape Library. Is this a possibility with nutanix? I am seeing conflicting reports of FC not being supported, or it only being supported if I am using VMware as a hypervisor (pass through to the machine)Can anyone shed some light on this? My end game is to use our existing Veeam infrastructure(in a vm hopefully, currently stand alone), connected to fiber channel to backup our environment to tape.

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tony.mcmillanVoyager
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Upgrading Node/Cluster Capcity one Drive at a Time

Hello fellow Nutanix fans,We have a three-node cluster in a DR location. This DR cluster has less capacity than the primary site which has resulted in us exceeding the resilient capacity of the DR cluster.To remedy this situation, we decided to replace four 8TB HDDs with four 12TB HDDs in each node. Today we removed one drive from a node in Prism UI and waited approximately four hours before the system reported it was safe to remove the drive. During this time, Prism reported that data was lowering on the drive. The cluster showed about 700MB/s of throughput during this rebuild, which seems pretty really good for a cluster of this size. We removed the 8TB HDD and inserted the 12TB HDD. The rebuild did not initiate until we ran NCC. By default, NCC runs every 24 hours so, eventually the rebuild would have started but, we wanted to see it get started.We watched the rebuild run for a while after it got underway. The system is writing around 80MB/s to the replacement drive. At this rate (2

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tbailey1Adventurer
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IPMITOOL to configure SNMPv3 on NX node

I have the commands for setting up a user and access level, but I’m not having any luck when configuring the SNMPv3 portion.  I need to setup the following and would like to use IPMITOOL rather than manually logging into the IPMI:  Has anyone been able to do this?

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squeakzVoyager
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Reverse proxy with Prism

I am trying to have Nutanix portal sit behind a NGINX reverse proxy. I have it sort of working. If I try and go to nutanixpc.domain.com, it will redirect to nutanixpc.domain.com:9440/console. I tried adding a redirect but it doesn’t seem to be working. If I type the path https://nutanixpc.domain.com/console, then it works. server { listen 443 ssl http2; server_name nutanixpc.domain.com; ssl_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/fullchain.pem; ssl_certificate_key /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/privkey.pem; ssl_trusted_certificate /etc/letsencrypt/live/domain.com/chain.pem; include snippets/ssl.conf; include snippets/letsencrypt.conf; location = / { return 301 https://nutanixpc.domain.com/console; } location / { proxy_pass https://pcconsole.domain.com:9440; proxy_intercept_errors on; proxy_set_header Host $host; proxy_set_header X-Real-IP $remote_addr; proxy_set_header X-Forwarded-For $proxy_add_x_forwarded_

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Nick.BarberVoyager
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VMware Upgrade Question

Hey Guys, first time working with VMware installed on Nutanix.  I am getting ready to install 7.0.2u, but I need some clarification first.I am unable to find the correct Customized Dell Binaries for 7.0.2u from VMware. Even reached out to support and they are no help.  Every other version I can get the binaries for. Anyway I am just wondering is it required for me to use the 1 click upgrade in Nutanix to update my ESXi hosts or can I use update manager in vCenter?

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Kuldeep@Trailblazer
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SPAN Port Configuration on AHV Cluster

is there any possible way to configure SPAN port on AHV Cluster?             

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rajkamal792Voyager
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Nutanix Node Foundation through IPMI

I have 3 Node Cluster , One of the node is completely down. we replaced the SSD hard disks sda&sdb. These servers are located in remote Data center. i cant use physical foundation deployment. so  used the below method;        1. Created ISO from Other Working CVM        2.Logged into IPMI console, Mounted ISO on the Virtual media        3. But here the foundation is got stuck , more than 10 hours        any other best methods can we do the foundation ?  

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tm00Voyager
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Unsupported Nutanix AHV and AOS version combination installed

Hi,We used LCM to upgrade our cluster to AOS 5.20.4 and AHV-20201105.2286 on Lenovo HX7820 hardware.This combination is supported according to the Compatibility and Interoperability Matrix.However, on the Nutanix portal there now is a ‘Critical’ discovery:Cluster <removed> (UUID: <re-mo-ve-d>) is running AOS 5.20.4 and AHV-20201105.2286. This configuration may degrade functionality of new features and cause issues during cluster maintenance operations such as upgrades or cluster expansions.Install a qualified combination of AOS and AHV immediately to avoid issues that could arise from running an running an unsupported configuration.AHV-20201105.2267 is the recommended version(s) for AOS 5.20.4.If I check the C&IM, the AHV-20201105.2267 / AOS 5.20.4 combination is not supported. Does anybody know how to get this discovery resolved?

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tbailey1Adventurer
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Changing iLo password via command line

I know this can be done with the NX hardware using the IPMITOOL utility pre-installed, but we’re starting to use HPE hardware and I wondered if anyone knew how to change the iLo administrator login password via cmdlet?  We’ve scripted this for NX line and looking to do the same with HPE’s as a part of our deployment scripting.

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afzal.ashrafiWayfarer
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Customized ESXi 6.7 image file for AOS Cluster creation

Anybody has the correct guidance or URL from where i can download the ESXi 6.7 u3 customized image file for Nutanix NX-WDT series node to build the AOS 3 node cluster 

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vishwajitshahPathfinder
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Need Support for CVM Installation/Configure

We have received a new (Model: NX-TDT-2NL3-G7) 2 set of hardware with ESXI installed and we would like to add into new cluster, hence in the process of preparing foundation, we realized that IPMI IP address is not accessible, no networking issues and it may because CVM is not installed and configured properly and we finding difficulties to prepare these 2 hosts for separate VMware Horizon VDI Cluster. It would be great is any technician can assist us over the online session or step by step instructions would be also helpful.We do have an existing Nutanix Cluster with 7 Hosts, where Existing Nutanix Cluster : AOS version 5.20.3NCC: 4.4.0Foundation: 4.1.1Installed ESXi Host Version : VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-14320388Please share step by step or instructions and documents how to add the Hosts a and configure.

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TwangyJakePathfinder
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Multiple MAC Addresses per vNIC

Hello!Are about to set up Infoblox (vNIOS) as a HA pair.An Infoblox article says:“When you deploy a vNIOS HA pair, ensure that the port connection allows for more than one MAC address per vNIC. For example, if you deploy a vNIOS HA pair in VMware vSphere, the port-profile to which the vNIOS HA and LAN ports connect should allow for more than one MAC address per vNIC. You can do this by changing the security settings of the port-group to accept "MAC address changes" and "Forged transmits," as illustrated in the following figure.”  What about Nutanix AHV regarding the above ?

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SquarePathfinder
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iDRAC equivalent for NX nodes?

Hello dear Nutanix community,Just wanted to check, does the IPMI port on NX servers offer a UI for server health monitoring/management and temperature/fan stats like iDRAC for Dell XC servers or HP iLO for HP?Thank you.

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Adam_CVoyager
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Removed interfaces from Virtual Switch and No Access to Prism

Hi There,So I made a stupid mistake and removed 2 x eth interfaces from all 3 nodes within the only virtual switch on my cluster. This was within Prism Element. I can still access AHV via IPMI, can no longer access Prism Element. Is there a way to add the eth interfaces back onto the virtual switch via AHV/AOS through the cmdlets?Cheers in advance.Adam 

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sdk404Adventurer
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Cannot launch PE from PC after upgrade to 5.20.3.5 LTS?

We’ve noticed that after updating clusters to AOS 5.20.3.5 LTS, we’re unable to launch those clusters from PC. PE seems to still be fine. Anyone run into this?

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MohaseenVoyager
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CPU scale up

We want to upgrade the CPU in one node only in 3node cluster. Please guide us, how can we achieve this. Please send step by step instructions.

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bravojVoyager
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CVM became disconnected?

Hello all, It seems that I am having issues with one of my ESXI hosts in my Nutanix. Nutanix G8ESXI 6.7 vSphere 6.7 This is a new set up, so not entirely devastated. Now the reason I believe it became disconnected is because in vSphere I see Network Adapter 1 VM Network (Disconnected). However the other 2 CVM’s are working just fine and are connected. in Prism when I click on the node I do see the host details, but nothing like the name I originally gave it, under the hardware tab and Host NIC’s there's nothing.Under Prism settings > Configure CVM I see 2 of the 3 and of course the one missing is the one I'm having issues with. Now I am able to see open the CVM VM in vSphere and Prism, but here's the other issue. When I set these up I used a password manager and gave all 3 CVM’s the same password, why I bring this up is because the other 2 CVM’s take the password and username, but the bad CVM doesn't. Even the default password for the G8 models doesn't work. So in other words I cann

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rockstershinyAdventurer
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Help with setting up a 3-node AHV cluster

Hello dear Nutanix community,A client of my company has purchased 3 HX Lenovo nodes and 2 ToR Cisco switches, each node was equipped with only 2 ports 10GbE (the LOM ones).  However, with only 2 ports, I don’t know how to setup the cluster in a way that there is a redundancy. The current rack looks like this without any cabling yet: The IPMI port will go to a Management Switch, so there’s no issue there. But so far, I am confused as to how setup the cabling for the two interfaces; Should eth0 go to a port on SW1 and eth1 go to a port on SW2 for each of the 3 servers? or should both eth0 and eth1 go to the same switch? If I understood correctly the AHV Networking articles in Nutanix, eth0 and eth1 will form a logical bond (br0-up) inside the br0 bridge. And I’m guessing since we only have 2 uplinks per nodes (I’m going for the first scenario):> eth0 will go to SW1Port1 (for example), SW1Port1 will be configured as a Trunk port, for which the CVM/AHV VLAN and User VMs VLANs will be de

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Emerson R. AlmeidaWayfarer
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Error Upgrade Host Firmware In AHV

Operation failed. Reason: Update of failed on 172.16.31.106 (environment phoenix) at stage 1 with error: [Failed to update firmware. Error: Failed to upgrade 3IE3. Information: [cmd: ./mp_64 -d /dev/sdg -c 1 -u -k -r -X 3 -Y 3 -v 0 dir_name: S740305N cwd: /home/nutanix/tmp/lcm_staging/S740305N ldir: ['SYS_S.bin', 'sram.bin', 'mp_64', 'mp_32', 'JMMPTOOL.ini', 'flash.ini'] x: [True, True, True, True, True, True]], Output: [ ************************************************************ * Innodisk MPTool V3.1.0 2020/03/04 * ************************************************************ Model Name : SATADOM-SL 3IE3 V2 Serial Num : B0021805110110184 FW Version : S671115N 1. TH58TFT0DDLBA8H Flash : TH58TFT0DDLBA8H Write code ....... [libjmmp.c][write_code():#2171] erase_flash fail ch : 0 blk : 2 [1;31mFail !! [m[1;31mUpgrade Fail !! [m], Error: [], return code: [4]] Logs have been collected and are available to download on 172.16.31.103 at /home/nutanix/data/log_collector/lcm_logs__172.16.31.103

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Pauli LehtonenAdventurer
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How to migrate from RHV to AHV

We have Red Hat Virtualization from where we are going to migrate to Nutanix AHV. Virtual machines in RHV are LVM, not disks, because we are using fibre channel. How can we migrate virtual machines from RHV to AHV?

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chenzh4Trailblazer
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Manually Enable RDMA nic in CVM possible?

Is it possible to enable RDMA nic manually in the CVM after manually passthrough the Mellanox network card to CVM in ESXi?It is not enable RDMA during foundation and the cluster is created.After passthrough the NICs to CVM in ESXi, I checked that the NICs are already in the lspci result but can not enable RDMA in Prism.So if it is not possible, that means if the cluster is created without RDMA enabled. there is no way to re-enable RDMA except re-foundation the cluster?

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Eric-The_VikingTrendsetter
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SSD Drives, RAID aisk Type

I have just changed disk 0 and disk 1 which were SSD SATA 480gb and now are SSD SAS 1.92tb - Prism still identifies them as SSD-SATA - Why? or have a missed something?Also how do I know if they are in a RAID config or whether the system has just picked them up as single disks?The new drives should run like hot snot, how do I check that they are running faster than the old SATA drives - still have 2 hosts with old drives , I plan to complete the change over tomorrow.  Or will I only see speed increase when all hosts are complete?

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j_seetTrailblazer
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Repair Host Boot Disk: Failed to apply IPv4 address to phoenix mode

Has anyone ever attempted a Host book disk repair and encountered this issue before?     All cables and SFPs are plugged in as if it were still in production. Have not yet attempted to rebuild via foundation as these were the steps provided by Nutanix support:  https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Hypervisor-Boot-Drive-Replacement-Platform-v510-Multinode-G3G4G5:Hypervisor-Boot-Drive-Replacement-Platform-v510-Multinode-G3G4G5   Steps Taken: Downloaded and burnt phoenix.iso to USB Booted USB into Phoenix Kicked off Repair Host boot Disk and uploaded whitelisted ESXi image Encountered error I have a case open with support and have escalated and figured that while i’m waiting I could ask the community. Will provide a response here once we figure out the issue. Cheers All!   (Edit: I posted this in the CE forum by accident)

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