Installation & Configuration

My Prism Central cluster (PC Scaleout) running version pc.2022.6.0.1 has ben generating Tasks related to Reports every few seconds - see screenshot below. This has been occurring for several days now and I don’t know if it’s normal or not - does anyone else experience this? 

I try to deploy Nutanix in 3 nodes (Fujitsu) using Foundation VM , Every node have 4 NIC , 2 NIC to every switch , (Nexus 3548-x), IPMI connected to other CISCO switch We will install ESXi as hypervisor , The deployment fail , when i follow up in node console , it fail after creation bond and try to connect to foundation VM My question are :it should be connection between AOS to foundation VM IP ?what is best practices for configuration in two nexus switches and cisco switch , for example , all 10g in nexus switch are trunk ports , native vlan is cvm vlan … what i need more to do ? 

I’m looking to upgrade the hypervisor on my cluster of NX-8035-G6 hardware however the download site only lists ESXi version 7.0.0-ga (build 15843807) as the latest for this hardware line - which was released from VMware almost 2 years ago.Can I use this older .json file with newer versions of ESXi? For example version 7 Update 3?Or, since there appears to be support for these newer versions of ESXI for other vendors (like the Dell hardware line),  can I use the .json files for the Dell hardware along with the new ESXi binary’s on my cluster of NX-8035-G6 nodes?

HP 360g7 config: 6core x2 processor, 96Gb ram, hp 332T 2port1GB lan card.480 SSD connected sata port.62GB class10 memory card.SAS 300GB 10kRPM (raid 0).I’m getting Failed install error message in esxi ( 6.7,7.01,7.02u,7.03).0In ESXi: devices I see the (SSd, hdd and memory card) but 0 Datastores and 0 VM.I tried, Edit esx_first_boot.py get_disk_locations_ce function. old code:   if wwn in disk: new code:   if (wwn != None and wwn in disk) and (disk not in device_identifiers): remove this elif statement in that function: elif disk[-3:] == ":10":print(disk[:-3])device_identifiers.remove(disk[:-3])disk_dict.pop(disk[:-3])location -= 1In /bootbank/Nutanix/firstboot/      rm firstboot_fail ./esx_first_boot.py Did not even work. Can anyone help me, I can't find a fix for it. can someone help me Please. Thank you 

I’m going to deploy 8 nutanix nodes with ESXi. The total storage capacity is 120TB. VMware ESXi have a maximum datastore capacity of 64TB. Can I provision nutanix storage container as datastore with capacity more than 64TB? 

I want to monitor our Nutanix environment by Solarwinds.Is there a neat guide on how to do this?

Hey everyone, I was wondering if there’s a release date for AOS 6.5.1? We’d like to update to the new LTS, especially for our SQL cluster. 

Hello Nutanix Community,We are running Nutanix HCI on Lenovo servers having three-node cluster & currently the cluster has less capacity. We have 2 empty HDD slots on each Lenovo serves and we are planning to insert same capacity HDD drives on all 3 servers. So totally 6 HDD with a capacity of 2.4TB each.I would like to know how to configure and expand the storage? Please note that I’m new to Nutanix so kindly help me from scratch:-)Thanks in advance to everyone. 

Hi,we added additional networkcards into the servers, but when doing a ifconfig -a | less the additional cards/ports are not being displayed.Also the CVM starts and goes into a continous boot loop. the following is being displayed UNLOAD: attempting modprobe remove virtio-pciNow our question is why are the additional ports not being displayed? Are drivers needed in order for the CVM to boot correctly with the new card installed? Thanks

Hi,I`ve replaced the SATADOM of one of the four hosts in my NX-1050. After starting from the pnoenix.iso, the repair host disk has been stuck like this for 24 hours.   The host_bootdisk_repair_status says it`s at “sm_trigger_imaging” state.The first thing I would like to do is kill the current repair job since it`s most certainly hanging. How can I do that and what further steps should I take to try and get the host back online? Thank you. 

DearsPlease your support in this critical case : I have 2 nutanix blocks, each 3 nodes;they`re all connected to a one switch with 12 cables ( 2 each), all in the same vlan (vlan 1), the switch is connected to firewall (trunk port from switch to firewall), I had set the cvm ip to 10.10.20.x range, I have the gateway from firewall 10.10.20.254, how I can add gateway to the cluster so the vms inside can be reached?what network settings or changes I must do? Thank you

AOS 5.20.4.6 does not support direct upgrade to AOS 6.5. Will an over-upgrade package be released later?

Can i add the new hard disk to empty slot for extend capacity ?

I have a few NX G8 nodes I want to install and configure, however the ToR Switches currently available are 1G switches (I have ordered 10G switches but they are late). I have a few questionsIn the pink circle above, the left port is Shared IPMI (10G) and the right one is its failover (as I’ve seen in NX Hardware specifications), however the speed for Failover port is not specified. Does any one know whether it’s 10G or 1G? And it is activated by default or should I go into BIOS Setup and activate the port during boot? My idea is to use this Failover port for Nutanix imaging and subsequently use it for CVM, Host and User VM traffic (temporarily). Has anyone tried this before? Any issues during Foundation imaging? I’m aware there will be performance issues when it comes to AHV/CVM services running as well as VM performance. Thanks everyone in advance!

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 incorrect. Please try again.,Nutanix.Prism.Common.NutanixCluster  When I try a Invoke-WebRequest command

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: All I can find is info that requires the CVM, what is gone in this case…So how can this be fixed? Is it a matter of booting with the Nutanix CE USB and doing a repair? Is there something that can be done on AHV (what of course I do have access to) that will 'unflag' the disks as bad (what they are not - if I do reinstall the whole thing and start

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 new nodes which is not finished uplink update. So some VMs may lost connect

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