Installation & Configuration

Hello,Does anybody know where I can find the 'Nutanix AHV Best Practices', as found in the google search below, I can't for the life of me find it.Specially looking for best practices for different workloads, and that article based on the description seemed to hit the nail on the head regarding higher clock speeds for database workloads for example.i find that a lot of Google links just end up with a "Not Found or Forbidden" message.

we have three new hpe dx380 gen 10 servers for nutanix AHV installation, Can we configure LACP on the Nutanix AHV cluster with new HPE server? what is the prerequisite for LACP configuration, and what we need to do?

Hello,On our new infra NUTANIX AHV, when I try to connect with Powershell I've this error : PS > $PrismIP = "<Prism ip>"PS > $userName = "<AccountUser>"PS > $password = ConvertTo-SecureString -String "<ComPlexE%Pass@ord>" -AsPlainText -ForcePS > Disconnect-NTNXCluster *PS > $connection = Connect-NutanixCluster -Server $PrismIP -UserName $username -Password $password -AcceptInvalidSSLCerts -ForcedConnectionConnect-NutanixCluster : The remote server returned an error: (401) Unauthorized.At line:1 char:15+ ... onnection = Connect-NutanixCluster -Server $PrismIP -UserName $ ...+                 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~    + CategoryInfo          : InvalidArgument: (Nutanix.Prism.Common.NutanixCluster:NutanixCluster) [Connect-NutanixCluster], WebException    + FullyQualifiedErrorId : The username or password you entered is inc

Ladies/Gents,Second time this happens. First time it did, I did not know how to fix this and did a reinstall. This time I am trying to find a way to avoid going down the full reinstall route…The issueAfter a power failure, in my area, the power may come back for like 5-60 seconds and then off again. This may happen once or twice after the power failure. In that case, what happens, is the AHV seems to mark the two NVMe drives as not available (I have one SSD, 120GB Western Digital booting AHV - so boot drive, and two Samsung EVO 1TB) and due to that, CVM and all VMs are gone.Booting off a USB stick with Linux Mint we can see the drives listed: 

I need to stop one as I didn’t remove a large disk from it before starting.

Is there any specific requirement port speed on TOR Switch for Nutanix Cluster running NVME + SSD storage? Is still good running 10Gb Switch to cover NVME + SSD performance? Thanks

Hi, Can we use Aruba 25g DAC cables with Nutanix servers?  Thanks,

Hello, Case 2 is not working normally in the AHV clusterIs there a solution?1. Cluster infomation > AOS : 5.20.4.5 > Cluster Network : br0(vs0) > Service Network : br1(vs1)2. HA test scenario 2-1 Case 1 : AHV01 br0 remove two cables   > Result : Virtual machine move to another host 2-2 Case 2 : AHV01 br1 remove two cables   > Result : Virtual machine does not move to another hostthanks

Hello,I’m trying to mount NGT to a VM through the REST API. However it does not seem to work.AOS version: 5.20.3PC version: pc.2022.4.0.1I tried these two requests:https://IP_ADDRESS:9440/PrismGateway/services/rest/v1/vms/72a3b676-906d-42b1-ad1e-ac8d63cf529b/guest_tools/mounthttps://IP_ADDRESS:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/72a3b676-906d-42b1-ad1e-ac8d63cf529b/guest_tools/mountHowever none of them seem to work. Do you have an idea why ?Thanks

Hi There is a scenario that I added a node to cluster which is AOS 5.20.1.1. After the expanding cluster finished. I need to add the node to the virtual switch. There are 3 vs in the cluster. So every time I added the node to the virtual  switch, all the node in the cluster will be rolling update because there are some workload in the cluster and I need to select the standard mode. When I just select the nodes in the virtual switch edit page. there is a warning block the operaiton.Warning information: “When Creating/Editing a virtual switch, all hosts must be selected except storage-only node” So my question is why all nodes need to be rolling update when I add the node to the virtual switch and other configuraiton keep same. and the operation time will be very long if add a node to a big cluster. Another strange issue is that when the virtual switch is in the updating process, the VMs will live migrated to the ne

Hi Everyone, Can someone help how to fix my problem First of all, I have 2 new added nodes in my existing 3-node cluster so I have now 5 nodes in my cluster and each node are pinging successfully for AHV, IPMI and CVM IP Address But the problem is someone unplug both 2 10Gb data cables from new node A and I got Data Resiliency Critical and after I plugged the cables back again it goes back to Data Resiliency OK but still the ping is unreachable from Host and CVM IP Address for that node  Please help me how can I fix this issue the Host and CVP IP pingunreachable while my Data Resiliency is now back to OK

HiESXi 7 as our Hypervisor.  Most workloads are windows and we host a number of failover guest clusters that use volume groups.We prefer not to mount the containers that are used specifically for our volume group disks as all they contain is the disks for our guest clusters. We don’t really want people accidentally deploying a VM to these Datastores or anything else if they were presented to ESXi. Is there a way to disable this alert for specific containers?  I’m assuming the answer is no here (needs to be more granular).If not, then has anyone got any recommendations on the best way to prevent these Datastores from being written to if we just present them to ESXi i.e make them read-only inside ESXi somehow?  Thanks  

Hi,I managed to connect via snmpwalk to a NTNX cluster; but which OIDs do I need to poll to get useful health status information? I don’t want to use traps.Roberto

I have question about prism central, if I have Nutanix frame configured  what happen if my prism central VM went down? noting that I have only one prism central VM.

I would like to apply Host-VM affinity/anti-affinity rules. Some of these referenced hosts are currently in maintenance mode.Am I able to apply these rules while the hosts are in maint mode? If not, am I correct in thinking that once the hosts are taken out of maint mode, then I can apply the affinity rules, and the system will apply these rules (migrating VMs etc. where it needs to)?

We have a customer running AOS 5.10 with the newest version of LCM. For some reason, the AOS upgrades are not showed in the “updates” tab on the LCM software. The only thing that i do was run inventory (not runned since years). I understand there is an upgrade order… but i want to make sure if anything needs to be done to LCM shows this AOS upgrades.

I have problem with PC Disaster Recovery, its not synced between PE, i`ll check  connection between PC and PE and it`s OK. When i remove clusters from DR backup and add them again, it`s sync once. Version of PC 2022.4.0.1Please help! 

I have a Nutanix AHV nodes and for the lab purpose i need to install F5 virtual appliance on this environment but i couldn’t get any guidence regarding the process of installing F5 virtual appliance on AHV.

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

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 passe

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.

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

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?

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

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?