Installation & Configuration

We want a NCC Health Check Report on email only having FAIL and WARNING checks. We don't need the one marked as PASS

We are preparing to migrate about 350TB of data from our existing 3-tier architecture to a Nutanix hybrid solution. Our storage pool is 480TB in size with about 25% SSD before storage efficiency kicks in. We have post-compression turned on as well as cache deduplication. We are going to attempt to migrate 50-100 VM's per night, and we are afraid that we will overrun our SSD tier eventually. Is there a way for me to run a data tiering job, or force the data to destage lower, daily after the migrations are done so that it doesn't impact our future migrations? Thanks in advance

I would like to setup a test environment but I have less memory. I want to know How much memory does CVM need at least？ AOS version is 5.5

We are planning a major migration from existing 3-tier ESXi over to Nutanix/ESXi (AHV to come later). Due to time constraints in our move, we are trying to optimize how many VM's can migrate at one time. VMware has a few well-known limits on their operations: vMotion operations per host (10Gb/s network) - 8 vMotion operations per datastore - 128 Storage vMotion operations per host - 2 Storage vMotion operations per datastore - 8 If I take a "one storage container to rule them all" approach, I will be limited to 8 migrations at once, as long as I spread out my migrations to 4 hosts. My target will be a 14 node cluster, so I would like to push up to 28 operations, if at all possible. Would it be considered a best-practice to carve out 4 storage containers, knowing I'm still in the same pool, and fan out the migrations to get around these limits? My goal is to saturate my 10Gbit inter-datacenter link. Yes, I like to push the limits (break things?). Would the multi-data

I’m in the sales process and the customer is asking me about the physical requirements of an NX appliance (particularly, the NX-1365-G6). Where can I find this information? Like power consumption, thermal dissipation, dimensions, etc... I know there are some here, but they don’t list all the products there.

I am not able to discover new node placed in different switch in same VLAN from an existing cluster The issue not able to discover the newly installed nodes in new switch with same VLAN of existing cluster( it is in old switch ) , but not able to discover these new nodes in existing Could anyone help me to give a clue , why these nodes are not able to discover in the existing cluster. I want to expand the existing cluster with these new nodes

downloaded Nutanix CE image file from Next nutanix in my local system and uploaded in Ravello cloud via import tool. Once done I have created Ravello application with empty image and booted with nutanix uploaded image as bootable drive and published it. Once login to console It started nutanix installation but coming with error only one core available. Minimum cores required are 2. How do I overcome this error to install. And I don't have options to select cores in Ravello cloud , only options to select are CPU's, Disk's, network,ports. Can anybody help? Or suggestions to start working in Nutanix CE edition and understand console.

Hi, Shouldn't this work? code:[root@mlnsrvmon01 scripts]# snmpwalk -v 3 -l authPriv -a SHA -A secret -u user -x AES -X secret1 10.21.1.10 -m /usr/share/snmp/mibs/NUTANIX-MIB.txt clusterNameNUTANIX-MIB::clusterName = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID

I need some help. I have a HP DL380 G& that I am attempting to install the Nutanix Community version on and I have verified the hardware. I have I 240GB SSD in slot on. I have 4 500GB hd in the next 4 slots. I have put the community version on a flash drive to install. I can boot to the USB, I can tell it to install, but it then fails with the message that it can not find any drives. I am new to your program and need a little help

Has anyone upgraded to AOS 5.10.3.1 yet? Have you experienced any issues? We are trying to determine if we should upgrade to AOS 5.10.2 or AOS 5.10.3.1...any feedback would be appreciated.

Hi guys..Is it possible to customize/deploy an already created sysprepped image in nutanix via the script engine?Its not that well explained in the kb.. Or i have not found the correct kb.I want to deploy patched images based on a XML unattendede file if possible.I really like the VMware customization options.

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?

Dear contributors, We have purchased Nutanix appliances and I am working as part of the IT Security team. We have enforced the security settings on CVM and AHV (STIG, banner, ...) and, as part of our duties, we carry out regular checks to make sure that the security settings have not been altered. For this, we would like to have nominative accounts which are able to connect through SSH and be able to check on the settings of the components. Is it possible to do? If yes, how can we proceed? Thank you in advance for your assistance.

Hello All, I’m quite new to nutanix, I have a question: Can we add three different hypervisor nodes in a single Nutanix cluster. ex:- if we have three nodes with below hypervisor Node 1 - Esxi Node 2 - AHV Node 3 - Hyper-v So can we add these three servers in nutanix cluster??

we have a nutanix appliance with the following disk config per node 2* 960 GB ssd 4* 1TB HDD Are we able to add 2 extra 2TB HDD disks or do we have to stick with the 1 TB disks?

What if we are adding a new Node to our existing Cluster, how we get Hypervisor(ESXi) and CVM(AOS) get configured so that it's visible in Prism Console for expansion.

Is it possible or am I wasting my time right now? I have configured (hopefully correctly) snmp v3 and lldp.

We just set up AFS. On the home directories, we expected that like a Windows home directory setup, the user would be the only person able to view their home folder. (and Domain Admins of course). But, on AFS per this doc https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Acropolis-File-Services-Guide-v20:Acropolis-File-Services-Guide-v20 and also per our experience it seems like ALL USERS can view everybody's folder and contents. This seems like a security problem since HOME directories are typically expected to allow only the user to view their data. Is this by design? It seems like a significant security challenge and much different from how this would typically be set up on a Windows file server.

Looks like the Foundation VM OVF/VMDK files are no longer available from Portal > Downloads > Foundation. Anyone know where they are hosted now? I have a remote bare metal installation scheduled and I'm dead in the water. Even the Foundation 4.3 Field Installation Manual released less than a month ago still references downloading the VM OVF/VMDK files from the portal where they don't seem to exist anymore.

Hello. I am trying to connect to the /iso/ folder to clean up some of the old versions. I also connected some VMware Datastores that I should probably do some housekeeping as well. I connect to the cluster primary IP 192.168.1.100 and get access denied. It's the same nutanix username & password I use for SSH which works fine. https:// I updated firewalls to allow port 2222 (thanks @sandeepmp ) but still getting access denied which makes me think either 1) nutanix and root won't work and/or 2) the folders have different credentials than ssh. ********************************* SO after typing all that, I realized I was supposed to use the login administrator to the web nutanix portal (admin). Oh geez. Well, I'll leave this all here in case somebody wants to do a dumb like I just did.

# On March 4, I posted the following but I have written the wrong answer myself, and the status of that bank has become "solved". # Actually it remains unresolved. I will post it again because I want to resolve it by all means. # The problem is "CVM can only communicate with AHV". Dear All, I am trying to build Nutanix CE into the environment of Nested ESXi. I downloaded and prepared the latest version of ce - 2018.05.01 - stable.img.gz. The ESXi to build the AHV is 6.0. First of all, we started to work as a single node cluster, we plan to develop into a 3 node cluster if it works. 192.168.0.27/24 to AHV, GW: 192.168.0.254. I set up CVM 192.168.0.28/24, GW: 192.168.0.254 and started the installation. After waiting for a while, a message stating that the installation was successful is displayed and the message "Nutanix CVM IP: 192.168.0.28" is displayed. However, only AHV can communicate with this CVM, and it can not communicate with other devices on the same subnet. If you che

Dear All, I am trying to build Nutanix CE into the environment of Nested ESXi. I downloaded and prepared the latest version of ce - 2018.05.01 - stable.img.gz. The ESXi to build the AHV is 6.0. First of all, we started to work as a single node cluster, we plan to develop into a 3 node cluster if it works. 192.168.0.27/24 to AHV, GW: 192.168.0.254. I set up CVM 192.168.0.28/24, GW: 192.168.0.254 and started the installation. After waiting for a while, a message stating that the installation was successful is displayed and the message "Nutanix CVM IP: 192.168.0.28" is displayed. However, only AHV can communicate with this CVM, and it can not communicate with other devices on the same subnet. If you check the Arp Table of another Linux machine on the same subnet, the correct MAC address of CVM is registered but the MAC address of this Linux machine is not registered in the Arp Table of CVM side. Only the MAC Address of AHV is registered in the Arp Table of CVM. CVM can not communic

Would I be able to create storage containers in my cluster for the purpose of "pinning" VMs only to hosts that are assigned to the containers - restricting VMs to the hosts that belong to the container? The need is to control VM migration during Software Upgrades due to multicasting issues with the hosts.

Hello again CE community! I'm running a Dell R730 with these specs: 2 Sockets 8 Cores Each Socket 256 GB RAM I'm running ESXi to run a 4-node cluster and want to parcel the CPU and Memory evenly among the 4 CVMs. Q1: Based on this, what should my CVM CPU/RAM settings be? Q2: When I allocate vCPU and RAM for VMs, how do I translate a bare-metal config spec e.g. 4x WS2016 8 CPU, 32 GB RAMto Nutanix VM specs, based on these constraints? I just need an example to shine light on how to break down the physical to esxi to nutanix CVM to VM specs. Thanks in advance, Brit

I have a problem with arp requests on the bridge for guest traffic In the drawing below the current architecture. If a request arrives from the outside, passing through the firewall, and the firewall is starting to communicate to a VM connected to a NIC to BR1-UP bond of BR1 bridge, the ARP request for the resolution of the VM address stops at the bridge BR1 and do not reach the VM, in this case the firewall and VM ARP tables remain unpopulated and the communications stop. On the other hand, if the communications depart from the VM to the Firewall (for example with a ping) the ARP request is processed by the firewall and the ARP tables of firewall and VM are correctly populated with the respective MAC ADDRs. Firewall IP and VM IP are in the same broadcast domain, no routing. I checked with Wireshark on the windows VM, with tcpdump and ovs-appctl fdb/show on the Nutanix host and when the communications start from the firewall the ARP request goes up to the physical card of the BR1