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0zzy Voyager

Changing HDD on NX

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Hi all, i have a NX-1365-G5, with 6x4tb e 3x1tb ssd an vmware as hypervisor. Can i replace all my drives with 6x8 tb hdd (i suppose to move all vm to another cluster and reintsall all from scratch, is it right? Is there a hcl for my NX-1365-G5? Or my NX-1365-G5 have to die with these hdds? Thank...

Hitesh

How do we see tap interfaces on underlying OVS bridge and how to check packet flow through the bridge interfaces?

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Hi, As per the default configuration while deploying AHV, there is an underlying OVS bridge br0 that gets created VMs deployed on AHV would send data through their virtual NICs which gets attached to tap0 or tap1 etc interface on br0. 1- How do we see these tap interfaces on br0? I do not see any...

ifchorit Wayfarer

Physical Disk Bad How to unflag it

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Hello, On my CE edition, I have 4 nodes with each 2 SSD drives and 6 HDD drives. One of the HDD drive has been flagged as bad after a Test that could not run. I checked the disk, it is actually OK, I would like My CE cluster to flag it as good again to be able to use it. Thank you for your help...

BA-tel Scout

Power Consumption calculation

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Hi All, Planning to buy 2 1000 series node for one of my client however thing which is not clear is how much power i need to order. For a given node i have got - 1519W maximum, 968W typical , so if i am going with 2 of these nodes then how much power i need to request from client provider- is it 2...

ChrisLyman

ESXi 6.7 on NX

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Perhaps I missed (somewhat new to Nutanix), but I don't see a supported 6.7 release for the NX platform. Does its absence in the support portal mean that 6.7 isn't supported yet? Thanks very much.

rurikwilmot Trailblazer

Nutanix Guest Tools update/upgrade en mass

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In the recent past Nutanix mentioned that a mass upgrade of the guest tools would be coming. Is there any update on this? We have a large amount of VMs on AHV and it's a pain to update the guest tools one-by-one. I could build a script to do it, but I don't want to invest copious amounts of time...

yangyang Adventurer

How hypervisor and CVM installer work?

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I am researching the installation log of stand-alone foundation. I do not understand the background schema and theory of hypervisor and CVM installation. Could somebody please explain how hypervisor and CVM installer work?

Jayakumar Adventurer

Field Installation

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What is the difference between bare metal node and factory ship node?

pennepacker Pathfinder

Metro Availability - Maximums Files 3600?

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We are about to deploy Metro Availability with ESXi and we have been checking the maximums on the documentation https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v510:sto-metro-availability-c.html Maximum number of files for all the entities in a protected container =...

storm Adventurer

Network Visualization - Dell Switches

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Hi, I'm in the process of evaluating AHV and migrating away from our existing Hyper-V cluster. I have a 3 node physical community edition setup on Dell Poweredge R720 connected to Dell s4048 10GB switches which I note should be supported. I am trying to get Network Visualization to populate bu...

anthony.yen-62185 Explorer

Cluster convert from ESXi to AHV for AOS 4.5.2

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Can I convert ESXi cluster that running AOS version 4.5.2 to AHV? If not, what need to be done? Thanks. Anthony

tarnold Wayfarer

Adding extra SSD and HDD disks - RASR / Crashcart fail

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We are adding more disks to our XC740xd-12 servers.. We have been told to do this the system needs to be rebuilt using the RASR tool. So we evicted the server from the cluster and turned it off. Added the SSD disks (originally 2 now 4) in the first 4 slots and then put the rest of the HDD disks in...

jmartinezv Explorer

Memmory banks for new models NX-1065-G6

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Hi, I'm very confused with the NX-1065-G6 memory configurations. In the hardware platforms page (https://www.nutanix.com/products/hardware-platforms/) its says that this model can be ordered with 128, 192, 256 and 384 GB, but on the Sizer it says that can be ordered with 128, 192, 256, 384 and 5...

Muhammad Usman Ayub

Adding a G6 node to existing G5 block

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Hi All, Is it possible that we add a G6 node to an existing Nutanix Block running 3 1065-G5 nodes? or we will have to add another Nutanix block containing a single G6 node and make it part of the existing cluster?

Fadli Pathfinder

Transceiver SFP+ 10G for Nutanix NX-1365-G5

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Dear Master, I want to make sure about transceiver of SFP+, before i am purchase it, Mikrobits SFP+ Transceiver SFP-10G-LR-SMis the product support or comply with the SFP+ Nutanix NX-1365-G5?

Muhammad Usman Ayub

DR Scenario

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We have a scenario in which we are running VMware vSphere environment on existing servers and planning to deploy a DR site. Is it possible that we deploy a Nutanix AHV environment at the DR site and replicate from the existing ESXi environment at the Production site to the Nutanix DR site somehow?...

NinaY Scout

Cluster don't start

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3node cluster on ESXi6.5u1. I changed ESXi Port-group's VLAN ID .(I guess this is bad, but the requirement) after that, i input cluster start command, but , there are these error ------ 018-11-28 18:09:11 WARNING genesis_utils.py:1204 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit...

Fadli Pathfinder

Transceiver Mikrotik S+RJ10 to Nutanix NX-1365-G5 C-NIC 10Gbe

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Hi all, I want make sure about the transceiver, Is Nutanix (NX-1365-G5) C-NIC Card 10Gbe compatible with the Mikrotik Transceiver S+RJ10? Please help to answer.. Regards Fadli

dlee-72579 Pathfinder

4 nics?

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our 1065 device/s has two 10GB and two 1GB NICs; can we use all of them? So if I wanted to say add a DMZ, I could use the 1GB NICs for this? Specifically in vmware hypervisor, my options are vlan all the way, or separate by physical interface (best practice). Can this be achieved? Removing the 1GB...

rest Adventurer

ESXi Installation

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Hi, I have a few questions for an installation that I need some help with. First, some history on the subject: We installed a Nutanix cluster last year and the implementation was done by a Nutanix engineer. It was a 3 node cluster, Hypervisor was ESXi (6.5). Now, we will be installing a new seperat...

Dadou Scout

Convert Nutanix Community Edition to Pro or Ultimate

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Hello Everyone, We want to test the features of the CE and hopefully move to a commercial license with support. Is it possible to upgrade a Nutanix Community Edition Cluster to Pro or Ultimate (without destroying the cluster) ? If yes, what are the possible ways ? Thanks a lot, David

Eric-The_Viking Trailblazer

Prism Central not accessible - how do I remove it and put another one in its place?

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Hi All I have a Prism Central VM and although it is pingable and shows as OK in the Prism Element, I get Server unreachable when I go to it. So I want to remove it and start again with the next version - I tried the NCLI command to remove the cluster and I get "Failed to process server response. Po...

yangyang Adventurer

What are the detailed activities of field installation using foundation

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I am eager to understand the whole activities of installation process by standalone foundation, the more detailed the better, like, Step 1: Validate parameters of Foundation Step 2: Mount and reboot into Phoenix Step 3:..... ............ Thanks very much!

Eric-The_Viking Trailblazer

Prism Central - Server is not reachable error?

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Good day to all I can ping it, I can see it is registered OK in Prism Element, but when I try to login I get a message saying "Server is not Reachable" I can Console into the PC VM and ping all the hosts and CVMs - it is in the same vlan as the hosts and CVMs - any ideas what I need to do to get...

Muhammad Usman Ayub

G6 platform and Foundation

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Hello guys, I wanted to ask that we are planning to create a cluster using 1065-G6 servers. Since the G6 platform has two Copper 10GE ports, I was wondering how are we going to do the foundation and discovery of the nodes when you don't have a 10GbE copper switch. Do the ports support a 1 G spee...

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