Installation & Configuration

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

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 

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

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

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

We got three HPE DL380 Gen9 Server with the HP RAID-Controller H240ar Smart HBA 2-Port SAS 12G on which HBA is enabled.Accordingly to Nutanix this RAID Controller is compatible and should work:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=HPE-Hardware-Firmware-Compatibility:mod-DL380-8-G9-r.htmlDuring the middle half of the installation via Foundation, we get the following error:StandardError: This node is expected to have exactly 1 AHCI controller. But phoenix could not find any such deviceAfter a quick search I saw this KB-Entry:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LIWmCAOI also made sure to set the SATA Controller Options again manually and rebootet the server multiple times. Also the boot order is set accordingly to the KB-Entry. But I still get this error and phoenix isn’t able to see any AHCI controller via fdisk -l.Do you have any ideas what else I could try?

If you have ever wondered, having a 1000 User VMs in your infrastructure is making administrative jobs pretty difficult for you! You are wrong when it comes to Nutanix HCI.Nutanix makes administration simple and easy.Let’s say you have 500+ User VMs in your system and want to install NGT on those VM, will you do it manually?Will you waste countless hours manually installing NGT on each User VMs?Definitely NO!Prism Central provides you with a feature to install NGT on multiple VM simultaneously with just a few clicks and you can even enable SSR and VSS service while installing NGT.Want to know the procedure?Just give the document a readNGT Installation using Prism Central  Have queries regarding NGT or some doubts?Drop a comment and let us start a discussion. 

Is it possible for PE or PC to send an email to me when a snapshot is created in the cluster?

Hello, I have installed prism central on cluster (AHV). But no cluster is registered (only prism central is deployed). Now i want to remove prism central. What is a correct way to do this? Thank you in advance. Mindaugas

I am cloning a VM using API V3, by default it was set to DHCP, I want to assign a Static IP via  below code, but it is not working. i am not interested to do this Via sysprep file.   "override_spec":    {      "memory_size_mib": 4096,      "name": "{{ vm_name }}",      "num_sockets": 1,      "num_vcpus_per_socket": 2,      "num_threads_per_core": 1,      "nic_list": [         {          "dns_ip_addresses_list": [            "192.168.1.10",            "192.168.1.20"              ],           "nic_type": "NORMAL_NIC",           "ip_endpoint_list": [              {                "ip": "192.168.1.50",                "type": "LEARNED",                "prefix_length": 24,                "gateway_address_list": [                  "192.168.1.1"                    ],                "ip_type": "STATIC"                   },            "subnet_reference": {                  "kind": "subnet",                  "name": "Client01",                  "uuid": "XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXX"                },

Hi Tried googling but can’t find anything to support me. Model: NUC7i5DNHE2x SSD (500+250GB SSD)1x _16_ gb Cruizer Fit USB AHV installation works and I create 1 signle node cluster., After rebooting I get SSH/Ping acces to AHV and can loginw with root. Problem:CVM does not answer to ping/wev.Tried SSH / Ping from AHV but does not get an answer: [root@NTNX-eXXXXX-A ~]# ping 10.255.1.11PING 10.255.1.11 (10.255.1.11) 56(84) bytes of data.From 10.255.1.10 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host UnreachableFrom 10.255.1.10 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host UnreachableFrom 10.255.1.10 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable I’ve tried re-installing multiple times but same issue.Is the problem the 16Gb cruizer fit usb? It’s the bootable media.CVM gets 500gb SSD diskData gets 250Gb disk [root@NTNX-eXXXXX-A ~]# virsh list Id    Name                           State----------------------------------------------------[root@NTNX-eXXXXX~A]#  Tried the logs from other posts but not able to get any outputs. Anyone got

I configured four Nutanix 3460-G7 nodes, and when they were installed, I tried to log in using the given link (one of the cvm), but since the new nutanix default password was changed to the IPMI serial, I had to try four times before it locked me out. and my pc was detached from the switch for some reason, which I reconnected, but now I couldn't access the prior cvm ip using the gui. Need help guys

NUTANIX documents on upgrading Microsoft OS from 2012 R2 to 2016 reference the need for both the OS ISO file and also the “metadata upgrade JSON file.”  Where do I locate the JSON file? It says the Nutanix support portal but I’m not able to access it there. It also mentions the “Hyper-V ISO file” but it’s unclear what that is referencing? If it is referring to the Server 2016 ISO file there doesn’t appear to be any file like this. Upgrade using ISOs. The Prism web console supports 1-click upgrade (Upgrade Software dialog box) of Hyper-V 2016 or 2019 by using metadata upgrade JSON file. This file is available in the Nutanix Support portal Hypervisor Details page and the Microsoft Hyper-V ISO file.Anyone able to point me to where to get this file so I can perform this needed upgrade?

I have pulled some new nodes into an existing cluster that utilizes LACP/LAG on the current nodes.  The default configuration on the new nodes is Active/Backup.  We also have new ToR switches that are not configured in a LAG.  Are these the correct steps the configure Active/Active?  The new nodes are only participating in the metadata ring - not hosting any VMs:To modify networking on the new nodes:Change the node to LACP enabled (ACTIVE/ACTIVE) using vs0  in the GUI – select only that ONE node to update the config on!! Put node into Maintenance Mode Login to CVM acli host.list acli host.enter_maintenance_mode host-IP-address DO I NEED TO PUT THE CVM IN MAINT MODE AS WELL?? Make changes on ToR switch – enable the 2 ports for LAG for that node ONLY Test networking Remove from Maintenance mode acli host.exit_maintenance_mode host-ip Verify resiliency returns to OK Move onto the next nodeI would love some feedback on if this is the correct order.

My vCenter is still in 6.5. Which vCenter 7 version is recommended to work without issues with AOS 5.20.3 LTS ? Thank you for your advice or experience.

Nutanix health check found NGT client certificates expiring , I can't solve this problem follow this method NCC Health Check: ngt_client_cert_expiry_check

Hi All,I’ve old hardware NX-3050 currently running AOS 5.10 + ESXi 6.7 U3I need to foundation this node to new version of AOS. But When I check into https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/compatibility-interoperability-matrixThere is no list for NX-3050 any more.   

Good morning, Is there any way to give specific right to a role for group of vms?? Thanks in advance

Hi thereI’ve question about difference between configuring bond(port aggregiation) via manage_ovs and ovs_vsctlI wanna to change bond that is in active_backup mode to active_active balance tcpI’ve confused a little bit,what is difference between doing this with manage_ovs and ovs_vsctl

Hello,I’m trying to implement custom monitoring with Zabbix regarding the Alerts.I’ld like to put custom alert based on Nutanix alert title such as : Cluster does not have enough free space to tolerate {num_node_failure_limit} node failure(s)snmpget -v 3 -u zabbix -l authPriv -a SHA -A ‘XXXXXXXXXXXX’' -x AES -X ‘XXXXXXXXXXXX’' 172X.X.X ntxAlertTitleBut i have the following error : NUTANIX-MIB::ntxAlertTitle = No Such Object available on this agent at this OIDThis kind of things are only based on trap message ? Regards, Damien

Could anyone know why I get this WARN after upgrading AHV using LCM:WARN: AHV version 20190916.360 is currently installed on host x.x.x.10, while minimum compatible AHV version is 20201105.2244.Node x.x.x.20 checked compatibility as shown below:AOS: 5.20.2.1Hypervisor: AHVHypervisor Version: AHV-20190916.360There are no compatible version!!!???What make me crazy the cluster still working!!! hey this Nutanix right.What should I do next?Should i leave it like that or try and run LCM again and install compatible version?thank you in advance

Hello,I have 3 nodes from Fujitsu, that are preconfigured with AHV, at discovering with standalone foundation is only see nodes 2 and 3, the same on Foundation Applet.Yesterday the nodes was discoverd corectly untill the cluster formation proccess i had some other problems with the same node (the error was “Critical updating cvm memory and hostname configuration failed. Timeout waiting for the CVM to come up), after i retried the steps at the discovering the nodes step for this node i had the error “This node is not discovering. Retry discovery or convert to manual node” Now i am trying via a Standaloe Fundation that is running on Virtualbox and this node is not discovered.Can you please help me with this problem?Kind regardsOctavian

If you ever need to present storage to your Guest OS directly via ISCSI here is some useful information for you. To provide access to cluster storage, Volumes utilizes an iSCSI data services IP address to clients for target discovery which simplifies external iSCSI configuration on clients. This iSCSI data services IP address acts as an iSCSI target discovery portal and initial connection point. Nutanix does not recommend configuring iSCSI client sessions to connect directly to Controller VM IP addresses. The data services address is owned by one Controller VM at a time. If the owner Controller VM becomes unavailable, the address moves to another Controller VM, ensuring that it is always available. This IP address is also used as a cluster-wide address by clients configured as part of Nutanix Files and other products. This IP address: Should be in the same subnet as the cluster Controller VM IP eth0 network interface addresses Helps load balance storage requests Enables path optimizati

At title - I would like to see how a particular VM is performing with dedupe and compression if possible? Cheers,Steve

 By default, Life Cycle Manager (LCM) automatically fetches updates from a pre-configured URL. If LCM fails to access the configured URL to fetch updates, you can configure the LCM to fetch updates locally to upgrade Calm and Epsilon. Perform the following procedure to upgrade Calm and Epsilon at a dark site.Ensure that the LCM version is 2.3 or above.Procedure Set up a local web server that is reachable to your Calm VMs.You will use this server to host the LCM repository.   Use the following steps to set up your LCM repository: From a device that has public Internet access, go to the Nutanix portal and select Downloads > Calm. Next to the LCM Dark Site Calm on ESX Bundle entry, click Download to download the latest LCM framework tar file, lcm_dark_site_bundle_version.tgz. Transfer the framework tar file to your local web server. Extract the framework tar file into the release directory.The following files are extracted into the release directory. master_manif