Skip to main content

Installation & Configuration

This forum is the best way to get up and running with the Nutanix platform

  • 1,462 Topics
  • 4,213 Replies
1462 Topics
T
tbailey1Adventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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.

16242
T
A
afzal.ashrafiWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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 

21991
JeroenTielen
V
vishwajitshahPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration
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.

1910
V
T
TwangyJakePathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration
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 ?

4590
T
S
SquarePathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration
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.

6022
T
A
Adam_CVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration
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 

2021
A
S
sdk404Adventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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?

85413
S
M
MohaseenVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration
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.

5864
StuB
B
bravojVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration
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

22222
B
R
rockstershinyAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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

41867
bcaballero
E
Emerson R. AlmeidaWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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

3451
J
Nutanix Employee
P
Pauli LehtonenAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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?

182215
P
C
chenzh4Trailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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?

5640
C
Eric-The_Viking
Eric-The_VikingTrendsetter
asked in Installation & Configuration
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?

8763
J
Nutanix Employee
J
j_seetTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration
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)

25347
flhoest
D
DSAPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration
Can I change AHV and CVM SSH port?

how can i change ssh port??

1250
D
M
mwilbergVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration
Ubuntu 20.04 Autoinstall - using Cloud-Init Custom Script

So - I have been trying to get some sort of automation of my Ubuntu VM creation in Prism, either by setting up a template machine that I would later modify using cloud-init custom scripts, or even better using a custom cloud-init script at creation to run through the “Ubuntu autoinstall”  I have tried a few times now to install an Ubuntu server by clicking my way through the GUI and then using the resulting .yml file to try and install a VM from scratch… Using “clone” from a template I can use a custom script to change hostname and so forth, but still having some problems changing the network settings (saying they are disabled by system.cfg). I guess I will be able to figure that part out eventually, but my main goal is to be able to register a new machine in Netbox, and from the info I have entered there automatically create a cloud-init fileand use that to trigger VM creation in Nutanix…  When I try to create a new VM - mounted with the Ubuntu 20.04.4 installer ISO and a 100GB disk -

73552
B
J
JayakumarTrendsetter
asked in Installation & Configuration
Export AHV VM in OVA format

I read that we can able to export the AHV VM in OVA format via Prism central GUI if we have both AOS and Prism central supported version. I need to know is there any way to do the same via PRISM CLI. If so,please share me any link for that. Thanks. -JAI

28332
J
N
NikTPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration
Unable to Uninstall VMtools on VM

I’m trying to uninstall VMware tools from VMs running on AHV version 20201105.2244. I am following the KB to uninstall VMware tools: Unable to Uninstall VMware Tools in Windows after Migration by Move from ESXi to AHVI mount the ISO in windows on the VM and run the ‘setup64.exe /c’ command and immediately notice EventID 1000 and 1005 in the application logs. They are application errors not being able to launch the VMware installer process. I have tried this on two separate VMs on different clusters. Has anyone else seen this before?Event ID 1000Faulting application name: setup64.exe, version: 11.0.5.17716, time stamp: 0x5e0aa12fFaulting module name: setup64.exe, version: 11.0.5.17716, time stamp: 0x5e0aa12fException code: 0xc0000096Fault offset: 0x0000000000077c3fFaulting process id: 0xb4cFaulting application start time: 0x01d81df06bb35ef0Faulting application path: E:\setup64.exeFaulting module path: E:\setup64.exeReport Id: 2dc8bb34-f3b9-40d1-859f-0f8f5b772fefFaulting package full nam

49381
Moustafa Hindawi
jfm_esi
jfm_esiPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration
AOS 5.20.2 shown, can't upgrade to 5.20.3, says 5.20.3 already there!

Hi,I’m trying to update a Nutanix env, from Prism Element. Using the web, in LCM, I see version 5.20.2 being in there, but when trying to upgrade to 5.20.3, I get the following error:Update of nutanix.nos failed on 192.168.0.2 (environment cvm) at stage 1 with error: [Failed to perform AOS upgrade with error [Preupgrade task [57c7e9a1-ebc9-495d-a848-2ead17251730] failed/aborted with message Version 5.20.3 is same as the current version 5.20.3]]LCM is at 2.4.4.2. NCC check done previously, nothing to report. Here the LCM dashboard. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks a lot in advance. BTQ: I’m working within a lab environment. 

2071
N
Nutanix Employee
S
SiWTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration
Nutanix LDAP admins

Hi all, I’m trying to create additional admins accounts with LDAP authentication on Nutanix. I’ve got clusters up and running, got LDAP working, and the generic RBAC ‘VM admin/VM read only’ etc accounts (that I’m creating) are all good. But I thought Nutanix had added the ability to create a full cluster admin with AD authentication rather than creating local ones on something like prism central now? Or am I mistaken? (If someone has a way of doing this, it would be much appreciated). Kind Regards,SiW

3371
rohan.saksena-55595
Nutanix Employee
S
StevedExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration
Windows 11 Installation config

Looking for anyone that has been successful with installing windows 11 on Nutanix AHV?I have tried, in my VM creation i have selected UEFI and Secure Boot. What I can’t seem to get to is how to enable TPM? When VM boots there is no way to get into bios to enable TPM. So how do you do that?Thanks 

49145
moju
G
Graham_McGuinnessAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration
IPMI address not registering correctly on cluster after changes

Morning,We have a 5 node cluster using the Lenovo HX series hardware (ThinkAgile HX3521-G).We changed our IMPI range after the installation had completed to an out of band IP range that all our IPMI NICs sit on. I made the change in BIOS and then restarted the genesis services on each node via the node CVM.The Genesis restart appeared to be successful.However when I look at the nodes in the hardware section of Prism element the IPMI address is showing up as a a generic self assigned 169.254.x.x address.What would be the best way to address this?Im new to Nutanix so forgive me if I have missed something super obvious...thanks Graham

4953
rohan.saksena-55595
Nutanix Employee
G
Graham_McGuinnessAdventurer
posted in Installation & Configuration
Solved: Error opening .vmx file with ovftools - generic access error (for AHV Migration)

Just in case this helps anyone else- I wasted a lot of time on this one this morning. I appreciate ovftools is a VMWare product...I was trying to convert an exported ovf vm folder to .ova as a single file for import into AHV.I was just getting a generic error- file "" could not be opened:trying to test or verify I got similar:c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool --verifyOnly --machineOutput V:\Grid-lic-server\Grid-lic-server.vmxERROR+ <Errors>+ <Error>+ <Type>ovftool.io.file.open</Type>+ <LocalizedMsg>+ Failed to open file: V:\Grid-lic-server\Grid-lic-server.vmx+ </LocalizedMsg>+ <Arg>+ V:\Grid-lic-server\Grid-lic-server.vmx+ </Arg>+ </Error>+ </Errors>RESULT+ ERRORNot very illuminating.I tried setting a log output and for next to nothing useful even in verbose mode:However:When I navigated to the local directory and ran the same export / convert command where the .vmx file was located I got:C:\Program Files\VMwa

8610
G
Alona
Nutanix Employee
AlonaNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration
Quick tip: how to deploy a VM from an OVF to AHV

You have a nice OVF or an OVA image and you are ready to deploy that virtual appliance to AHV. There is just one more step required. Well, maybe more than one. It is not possible to import OVA and OVF files to AHV. Extraction of the files of the image as well as upload of the VMDK files is required prior to deployment.Please follow instructions provided in KB-3621 AHV: Import OVA and OVF image

218613
G

Badges

Show all badges
Terms & Conditions