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badonders Trailblazer

Acceptance Test Checklist

Hi all, Can anyone tell me, if there exists any general Acceptance Test Checklist. I have to write such a test, but maybe there already is a good format. Thanks in advance. Regards, Bart

emyratti Voyager

Import VM from KVM on Acropolis 4.5

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I need to import from KVM (CentOS 6.6) on Acropolis 4.5 a VM RedHat 4.4 with ide disks (RH 4.4 doesn't support Virtio). I have created a new VM from acli with IDE disk:acli vm.disk_create TEST_RH44create_size=80G container=cnt1 bus=ideacli vm.nic_create TEST_RH44 network=vlan.0. Now I have to import...

TheNoSanGuy Voyager

Data Resiliency Status shows error

Hello All, For one of the customers, I did a fresh install and on that one, when I check the data resiliency status, it shows me that for Extend Group, it is 0. The explanation is as follows: "Based on placement of extend group replicas the cluster can tolerate a maximum of 0 node failure." Do you...

jomebrew Trailblazer

Two Containers, One Pool

Typically, I create two containers on my clusters. Why? Some background first. I assembled a mostly self service instance of VMware vCenter on top of Nutanix. Users can deploy OVAs and have access to VMs in their resource pools and folders. I group users by team and create resource pools and f...

jomebrew Trailblazer

The downside of running low of free space

This isn't really installation and configuration but it was related to my protection domain snapshot issue. So, when I ran low on free space, the metadata increased becasue there were still tons of blocks out there to keep track of. So, this combination of low space and threshold breaking metasada...

jomebrew Trailblazer

Protection Domain Local Snapshots and my mistakes

One of the mistakes I made recently was not understanding my daily snapshots, retention and expiration well enough when I created protection domain to keep local snapshots. First, I took a shortcut to creating daily snapshots by selecting Repeat Weekly with every day selected. The docs are a bi...

DaemonBehr Trailblazer

3 node cluster design for 6000 series nodes

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I'm putting together a design for a 3 node cluster with the 6000 series nodes. The first block is 6235-G4, the second block, I'm a bit confused. I could get another identicle block with 1 node ( 6135-G4), but there is also the option of getting a 6135C, which is single socket, less RAM, smaller SSD...

Cipo80 Trailblazer

Datacenter refresh with DR, single or dual socket?

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Hi guys, i'm a potential new Nutanix customer here in Italy ! Actually 43 VM's 6.5TB, 20% CPU average use (6X Xeon 5680 CPU) 400 write/iops average during 24hours and 3000 of peak. The goal is two sites in stretched cluster with sync writes, connected with 2x1Gbs fiber and upgradable to 10Gbs if it...

Wim Voyager

Automatic Download for NOS Upgrades if HTTP Proxy is enabled

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Hi All, In Version 4.0, automatic download for NOS Upgrades does not work if HTTP Proxy is enabled. Can someone confirm that this is fixed in the latest releases? Thanks in advance. Wim

zizulrahman Trailblazer

Change IP Address

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Hi, i'm quite new with nutanix and I currently doing a planning for a project for one of my client. the plan is to copy over VMs in their production site and then later to move the nutanix to their secondary site. The question is how do change the IP addresses for nutanix equipment when moved to...

KYFong Adventurer

How to change cluster time setting?

I am able to change the timezone but the time is not correct. I would like to know the command to change the cluster time setting. i run DATE and it show wrong time. How to change the time of a Nutanix cluster?

Yakoob Adventurer

Want to install windows gui on Nutanix nodes instead of windows core

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I would like to install Windows 2012R2 Datacenter GUI on all Nutanix 3460 all nodes instead of Windows core, can i do that? please suggest, I don't like working on powershell..

KYFong Adventurer

Anyone can assist on how to configure HA on Nutanix KVM host? whats tools needed? command ?

Anyone can assist on how to configure HA on Nutanix KVM host? whats tools needed? command ?

szewczykm Adventurer

Protection Domain Warnings

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I have three protection domains, all containing VM's. All three have schedules set and I can see that local snapshots are being made. I have restored machines with no issues. All seems well, but I am getting "Backup Schedule" health warnings on all three PD's. Causes of failureNo backup schedul...

Sam-OME-RESA Voyager

NX-6260 ( NX-6060 - Part 422-NX-6260 ) Power Specifications

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Hello - Can someone reply with the complete power specifications for the Nutanix NX-6260 ( NX-6060 )? I know these have dual power supplies. Please provide the following at minimum: 1.) Voltage of each power supply - I think these are 208V Single Phase 2.) Amps per power supply 3.) Watts per po...

elarson Trailblazer

Erasure Coding

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Sorry to have to post this, but can't find any documentation on how I actually enable EX-X? I am at 4.1.1.4 but upgrade if required. Just trying to figure out how to turn it on? Thanks, Erik

KYFong Adventurer

How do i set IP address for KVM Acropolis hypervisor?

I login as root and password nutanix/4u. Once login : i am able to find the host ip which is on br0 network but i am unable to locate the cvm ip. Hypervisor : Acropolis Nutanix 6035C

sdeepus Voyager

md5 checksum of vmware vpshere 6 enterprise plus for the Nutanix NX-1050

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Hi All, Anybody knows the md5 checksum of vmware vpshere 6 enterprise plus for the Nutanix NX-1050. I am planning to install vsphere 6 on this server. The current OS on the server is vsphere 5.5.0 U2 and the license is expired.

WindigoIce Voyager

ipmi problem

Now we encounter a problem, after A node with ipmi remote connection address connection, set the vlan from disable error into able, then even not ipmi remote management address, in the local service of esxi host execution ipmi commands, prompt invalid orders, is there other ways to enable remote man...

KYFong Adventurer

Prism timeout / inactivity

Hi Team , I would like to know what is the command or how to setup the Prism to stay active 24/7 without timeout or automatically logout due to inactivity? Because of my helpdesk center is working on monitoring Nutanix cluster in Asia and would like the Prism maindashboard to be stay and not logout...

muxiaoyu Voyager

How to disable IPMI VLAN

hi all, I have problem for IPMI,Enable the VLAN in the WEB,so now,I con't unable to connect to IPMI. In order to solve this problem,ihave try the following methods:

rvillarin Adventurer

IPMI Ports Show "No Connect" In BIOS

Hello, A few of the IPMI ports on a new installation (3K and 6K series) show "no connect" in the BIOS. The ones that are working show "Dedicated LAN." Our networking folks have verified the ports as access ports, and are active with the correct VLAN ID configured. We will be swapping the po...

alunkal Trailblazer

if nutanix have its own replication method to dr site what is the use of vmware srm.?

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hi, in the vsphere administrative guide its mentioned to use vmware SRM along with nutanix SRA for the remote replication.if nutanix have its own replication method what is the significance of SRM? Thanks in adance. RGDS rj

alunkal Trailblazer

microsoft cluster RDM

Hi, I actually have one query.In case of microsoft cluster their is a requirement of quorum disk.so normallly in vmware environments the disk used for quorum is RDM.so my question is how we can resolve this problem in nutanix box.?.i found some post in the nutanix community that their is a seperat...

Wim Voyager

Enable Compression on an existing container

Hello,is it possible to enable compression on an existing container?What will happen to the data already written?We want to enable post-process compression, so I hope the Curator MapReduce framework will compress all data concerned.Can somebody please confirm or correct?thanks in advance!W.

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