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Nutanix appliance 3061 coming with preinstalled ESXI 5.5 nodes

Dear All ,I would like to know if the Nutanix appliance coming with preinstalled ESXI 5.5 nodes or not. If not ,so do nutanix has its own customized image(iso) of vsphere esxi to be used? Can I boot the installation file directly from CD or usb to install esxi on nodes? Regards, Rami

1 gig ports

We are in the process of identifyng datacenter requirements for our Nutanix installation. One statement I recently heard was that the 1 gig ports for the nodes were primarily to address security concerns and that the 10 gig ports would satisfy most customers. Is this true? Are there any other dow...

NOS Hardening Guide?

Hello, is there a NOS Hardening Guide available? two specific questions: is there a Firewall running on the CVM? can I install my own ssl certificate? thx and best regards Manfred

Compression and vDisk

Hello - I am going through the NPP 4.x tutorial and I was wondering if someone can explain to me vDisks in the context below. I guess I don't fully understand what vDisks are. (Copied from the tutorial): "If user data for VDI is kept on a vDisk that is attached to the end-user VM, you can st...

IPMItool Full Duplex Command

Hello - Does anyone know if there is an IPMItool command to set the interface to 100MB full duplex? Is this option to change it even available? We are having some IPMI issue where connectivity drops every so often. We are working with networking to check their side, and we've done various t...

Are Foundation and Phoenix Available for Customer Download?

Hello - I am studying for the NPP exam and the online guide talks about Foundation and Phoenix. Does anyone know if these utilities are available for download to customers? Thanks! RV

Shellshock Bash Vulnerability

It looks like my CVM's running 4.0.1.1 are vulnerable to the now hyped-up CVE-2014-6271. What is the official Nutanix stance on remediating the vulnerability - should I wait for an NOS hotfix or can I pull down the relevant CentOS patch?

Best configuration for 6 geographically separated nodes

Hi guys, I'm designing a Nutanix infrastructure, and I'm struggling with the most optimal configuration given the specs Specs: - 2 sites (80 km apart, latency

Rest API Create Protection Domains

I am trying to create a Protection Domain, but can't figure out how to supply the name of the Protection Domain. I have to use a string and a JSON object as body parameter, but it keeps throwing errors. JSON objects I have tried: {"name":"MyTestName"} {"body":"MyTestName"} {"input":"MyTestName...

Vmotion and ESXi MGMT VLANS are different, CVM should have which VLAN?

Hello All, One of our customers decided to have Vmotion and ESXi MGMT on different VLANS and they will split the 10G connections. So for this kind of setup, which VLAN should CVM be in? Do you have any recommendations? Thank you so much...

New-NTNXProtectionDomain usage/documentation

I am experimenting with the Protection Domain Cmdlets and trying to use New-NTNXProtectionDomain. I am running into some issues and I hope there is someone around to point me in the right direction. New-NTNXProtectionDomain prints "protectionDomainName cannot be null" when I run it without any par...

V4.0 and Hyper-V - "diagnostics.py run"

should "diagnostics.py run" script run without issue with this hypervisor? Seems like fails with creating container for this testing? Or has this been verified to run without issue on Hyper-V and NOS 4?

vmware view on nutanix

Found installation guide like this ones http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/nutanix/VMware-view-nutanix-best-practices.pdf https://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/partners/nutanix/VMware-view-nutanix-reference-architecture.pdf During installation i see : VCAI: Check Use native NFS snapshots (VAAI)...

Upgrade Software to 4.0.1

Has anyone toyed around with the Upgrade software module in the 4.0 GUI? I'm looking to upgrade to 4.0.1 using the GUI. The two query boxes need both the NOS Metadata File and the NOS Binaries. I was able to download the 4.0.1 .tar file from the support portal but I can't seem to find the Metadata F...

Adding fifth disk to 1050 Nodes

I added a 1TB disk to each of my 1050 nodes. I followed the guide and added them correctly. Just noticing that in hyper-v though it still shows the 6th disk as completely free. It's offline and added as a pass-through like the other 5 disks are to the CVM. PS C:Usersswinters> diskpart Microsoft...

Vmware patch for intermittent NFS APDs on VMware ESXi 5.5 U1

Vmware released patch for problem described in Nutanix Field Advisory#17 Unexplained NFS datastore disconnects with ESXi 5.5 U1 http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=2076392

tier settings

ncli> storagetier ls-supported-typesStorageTierTypeDTO(name=kPcieSSD, displayName=SSD-PCIe)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kSataSSD, displayName=SSD-SATA)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kHDD, displayName=HDD-SATA)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kSAN, displayName=SAN)StorageTierTypeDTO(name=kNAS, displayName=NAS)StorageTier...

feature " disk balancing "

Hi, In the Nutanix Bible : http://stevenpoitras.com/the-nutanix-bible/#disk_balancing Steven explains the feature "disk balancing", and wrote : what's the percentage of this parameter ? And can i check and/or change this number ? Thks ! Sig'

Is there a metric to track compression ratio over time?

I just turned on compression on a couple clusters. I'm wondering if there is a metric somewhere that tracks compression ratio over time? Trying to identify any trends on how much I can expect the data to compress.

Errormessage about disabled VM autostartup & vSphere HA cluster

Hey guys, We are busy building a Nutanix 3.5.3.1 infrastructure with vSphere 5.5. We have six nodes in two blocks, and the design consists of 2 Nutanix clusters with each its own vSphere cluster. HA is enabled on each cluster. We are getting an error on both Nutanix clusters in PRISM UI: Virtu...

Config Tips and Tricks

I've been working on a VDI project with Nutanix of late. the project i sstrating to wrap up now and I've started to blog about 'Quick Tips'. I thought I would share them here for all to see, hopefully will be of help to others. First one went up today: Nutanix Networking | Quick Tip Thanks!

vSphere 5.5U1 and NFS disconnects

Hello, It's made the news yesterday, but in case you missed it, there seems to be a bug within vSphere 5.5U1 that affects all NFS users. NetApp & VMware (at least, maybe Nutanix too?) are working on the subject. See the post below for more information: http://datacenterdude.com/vmware/nfs-disc...

VMware ESXi installation media: driver rollup ISO?

What's is the official stance on using the Driver Rollup ISOs VMware has been releasing? Can they be used if the ESXi version is in accordance with the Nutanix-approved version compatibility list?

NOS 4.0 upgrade path

I wonder what the upgrade path(s) for NOS 4.0 are. I'm currently on 3.5.1, looking to skip 3.5.2 & 3.5.3 to go straight to the new features.

Storage access for specific VM on a Nutanix VMware edition

We have a shiny new VMware NTNX environment, yeeh! Question: I'd like to be able to measure the virtual disk metrics for a specific workload (backup). Preferably without any layer in between so I can really see what the workload does. Idea is to use a virtual machine on NTNX as a backup server an...

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