Installation & Configuration

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

Morning, i am attempting to add my other NUTANIX instances to my Prism Central instance, and for both they get the "REMOTE CONNECTION CREATION TIMED OUT" error.

I've inherited a Nutanix setup. I've noticed there is 1 Storage Pool setup and 4 Storage Containers. (see screenshot).  I don't know what is the Default setup looked like so I don't know which are required. I'd like to have 1 container. Currently attached to Nutanix Host VDI_POC nutanix-peristent-pool Not attached NutanixManagementShare SelfServiceContainer All of my VMs are on the VDI_POC. Can I somehow delete the other 3 and combine them into the VDI_POC without losing data/downtime?  

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? We are currently using Veeam backup and replication for VMware for backup. What is the possibility of such a requirement?

Hello, We have an 5.1 AOS cluster (EOL I know), we wish to upgrade to latest possible LTS (which seems to be 5.5.8). The ncc is clean but the preupgrade fails at 3°% claiming a zookeeper is not reponding on one of the CVMs. But allssh genesis status | grep zookeeper zookeeper: [3967, 3996, 3997, 4003] Connection to @1 closed. zookeeper: [3899, 3928, 3929, 24979, 25089, 25105] Connection to @2 closed. zookeeper: [3919, 3948, 3949, 7259, 7365, 7380] Connection to @3 closed. zookeeper: [3923, 3952, 3953, 7709, 8032, 8047] Connection to @4 closed. And code:ncc health_checks system_checks zkinfo_check_plugin runs normally. What could be the issue? Thank you

Hi All, I did use Nutanix CE on a standalone server before for testing and for backup recovery test. Today I was trying to install the new CE version ce-2018.05.01-Stable. The previous version I used was CE0-2017.05.22-Stable. Now the hardware is same. 1x 240 GB SSD, 2x 500 GB HDD, 3x 1TB HDD. 128 GB RAM Boot from USB. 3x 1 TB drives are in Raid0 - Storage 2x 500 GB drives are in Raid0 - ISO's 1x 240 GB drive is in Raid0 - OS - (I tried this with Raid and with out raid.) this time when it is checking the disks it says "MinimumRequirementsError: A set of disks matching the minimum requirements was not found" is there any changes to the minimum hardware requirements with new version of CE? Please help me with this. Thank you, Krishna

Is it possible to do RF3 with a 3 node cluster? If so any minimum requirements?

How to change expiry of nutanix snapshot?

Hello Experts, I have received an 1065-G6 3-node block for new installation. Can someone please guide to how to start from the scratch. This is new install and no earlier base available in the site. Thanks Sam

I just upgraded our Prism Central to version 5.7.1 and noticed that the widget with the banana-holding monkey never changes when we get an alert from one of our managed clusters. I removed and re-added the widget from the PC console but it still never updates when we receive an new alert. Grated, this is not very important but has anyone else seen this issue?

Hi, We have a Windows 2012R2 HyperV host with about 8 Windows 2008R2 VMs. These VMs are Gen1 using .vhdx as the file system. I'm currently running Ntnx 4.7.4 and was wondering the following: Does the image service import .vhdx files or do I need to use qemu-image ? If I use something like Starwind V2V converter, it supports QCOW2 and RAW, is there a preferred Ntnx format ? (Image inserted below) Does the SMB version on the CVM have unique specifications ? I was trying to use Storagecraft Shadowprotect Recovery options (Linux based) but it would see the UNC?Thanks in Advance, G [img]https://uploads-us-west-2.insided.com/nutanix-us/attachment/2506iD6764FB6092E7F6F.png[/img]

Hello, I'm struggling with the installation of AFS on the last CE - reading 20180425.199 on Prism Element. After several tries (3.2.0, 2.2.3, 2.2.0 and 2.2.1) all failing with the same annoying message (Software is not compatible with the current installed NOS version), I finally call for help. Does anyone know which AFS version is compatible with CE 2018.04.25 ? Luc.

Hello, In setting up Nutanix we do not allow it on the Internet. How much does this constrain what we can do with it? ie Life Cycle Management (LCM) Although LCM allows us to point to a different source we will still need to get the Modules somehow? Although LCM lets us start an Inventory it still seems to want to go out and get a Manifest file and then it fails? Can these be downloaded somehow? Where else are we going to find difficulty with? Thank you...

When trying to use the allssh "manage_ovs ...." I get the above error. As I understand it Zeus and Zookeeper are close friends(as one would expect). Zookeeper implements the cluster configuration information while Zeus is used by other cluster components to access it? Somewhere I read that when you manually add a new node to a cluster Zookeeper on that new node is not active? Any information would be appreciated (even rabbit holes). thx.

as picture below code:when i configure the command "nutanix@cvm$ allssh 'manage_ovs --bridge_name br1 --interfaces eth0,eth1 --bond_name bond1 update_uplinks'"in cli but cannot work. plz anybody help

Hi Team, i am new to Nuatnix and i have requested to setup and configure the 2 Nodes Nutanix in our environment and OS will be ESXI .please need your advise by step by step. what are the prerequisites should I need to have. how many IPs i should need to connect from nutanix box to necessary devices Model :NX-6235C-G5 Many thanks in advance Ansar ali

Hi All I have read that a single storage container is all that should be used as Nutanix takes care of all the functionality like de-dupe and ssd allocation. I started my Nutanix journey with a number of containers for dividing into business parts eg: Production SQL, Production Web, Dev, and Test. Is this division a sensible way to go or do the latest versions of Nutanix negate that? I intend to limit dev and test to slower drives in the pool, is that possible outside a container approach? Many thanks E.

I have 8 port 10BaseT 10g switch and I have four nodes with dual 10g and dual 1g. I also have a 1g switch with 50 ports. If I plug all 8 10g nic into the 10g switch I will not have an uplink port. However I still have thx 8 1g nic. So this leaves me with a couple options, and I was curios what best practice would be. A few options I have consider are: Only use one of the two 10g ports per node. Configure AHV to use 10g for I/O only and 1g for connecting to the outside world. *not sure if this even doable*