Installation & Configuration

Hi All Is anybody else just going round and round in circles with Nutanix and the network it resides on? I am getting soooo peeeeeee'd off!! The man at the show said easy peasy, 15 minutes to deploy, which 15 minutes? The last 15 in 2019? Dell supplied, but don't really know the product so they pass calls off to Nutanix who do their bit (very well, no complaint there) but then hand the things about Dell back to Dell, so I am not getting a joined up answer. So the crux is that I don't have a stable network and I am ready to rip it all out and go back to VMware. Unfortunately my budget has gone and I have to rely on Communities for answers - not a lot forthcoming. Is anyone else having these sort of problems or is it just me?

Hi All I am having my first foray into Nutanix using 3 x Dell XC servers and 2 x Dell X4012 switches (stacked), TOR switches are Dell N3024 stacked - I have come from a background of VMware using blades and SANs, so I a little confused on the process for setting up the external networking. What vlans etc do I need on the switches for the Nutanix management, vmotion and storage etc? Is there any best practice documents or has someone completed a similar task and documented the procedures? Any hints, tips or configs gratefully received. Thanks Eric

Hi All First I run this: allssh manage_ovs --bridge_name br0 --interfaces eth0,eth1 --bond_name bond0 update_uplinks and the expectation I would have Bond0 entry somewhere, however I run the "ovs-appctl bond/show /bond0" command and I get this answer: FIPS mode initialized Nutanix AHV no such bond ovs-appctl: ovs-vswitchd: server returned an error What am I missing?

What's my goal? Right. I have 3 networks that cannot talk to each other for "reasons". Mostly because we have a test system that utilizes the same IP addresses (ORACLE Reasons) and we test & demo software in Prod, Demo, & Test networks. I just did a foundation on my system because I did an upgrade and the networking customization I had to do with OVS changed and wouldn't work anymore. Now that I'm working on a new install, I'm having trouble configuring the network and getting issues I didn't have before. I've created and recreated several times using different varieties of below commands and still same outcome. Some commands below are from various tries, but same result. Error when powering on VM with virtual NIC Operation failed: InternalException: kNetworkError: OVS error (10.1.16.103 create_local_port): Error not a valid bridge: br1 Host A - ovs show [root@HOSTA ~]# ovs-vsctl show 48fd5ca1-d898-425e-9b11-484eaceaba94 Bridge "br0" Port "br0

Hi, I need to download AOS 5.5.3.1 for a new cluster but I don't find the link for this version. where I can find the link ? Thank You

Hi everyone I tried to reboot hosts using "Request Reboot" in the gear icon. But its progress completely stucked at 24%. How can I resolve this situation? AOS 5.1.2 ESXi 6.0

I have encountered an issue while migrating to a dvs, I am running esxi 6.5 on a 3 node cluster. The setup is new so there are no VMs apart from the CVMs and a test VM on the host. The dvs already exists and I am doing one node at a time and as such I added one of the NICs from node A to the dvs. I then did a quick test with the test VM on each port group I have configured to confirm connectivity. I then attempted to migrate the VM Network port group created on vSwitch0 that the CVM on node A was connected to, the migration "worked" but connectivity to the CVM was lost. In addition to losing connectivity to the CVM on node A, I am now unable to access prism from any of the CVMs or cluster IP. The page loads but once I attempt to login nothing happens. I even powered off node A in hopes that I can get to prism but still no luck. All CVMs and the cluster IP are reachable via IP, the esxi hosts for node B and C are also fine and reachable. Not sure where to go from here other than tear do

Hi, Nutanix announced EOL of NX-6035C-G5. I can make new scenario with it if few month my customer doesn't buy? Could someone help me? Thanks,

Hi all is there any guide for what ESXi version/build-number is support or unsupport about Foundation? Sometimes I need to know what version Foundation can install what version ESXi Or I only use the newest version Foundation to install older version ESXi? Does it always work? I hope there will be some information let me know when I install older ESXi on newer Nutanix using newer Foundation Some Costomers not always use the newest ESXi thanks!

Hi all, today I wanted to upgrade NOS on one of our clusters from 4.1.x to 4.6.3 which worked perfectly fine for another cluster. The first CVM was updated successfully but the next CVM Update failed. (Maybe due to connectivity issues to the host.) upgrade_status says, that the node is upgrading right now, but in fact the CVM is powered off and won't boot. After it displays the following information it reboots fails again and after the second reboot it stays shut down. Is there a simple fix for this or do I have to open a support ticket? EDIT: it seems like the update process tried to shut down this cvm but got a timeout and now the update is somehow stuck. Can I somehow restart the upgrade process or manually update this CVM? Thank you.

hi, i am trying to create a cluster manually. 3 cvms, all pinging each other, ssh to each other OK, network access OK nutanix@NTNX-xxx-B-CVM:xxx:~$ cluster -s a,b,c create2015-01-29 02:34:48 INFO cluster:1663 Executing action create on SVMs a,b,c2015-01-29 02:34:48 WARNING genesis_utils.py:325 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort)2015-01-29 02:34:49 WARNING genesis_utils.py:325 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort)2015-01-29 02:34:50 WARNING genesis_utils.py:325 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort)2015-01-29 02:34:51 WARNING genesis_utils.py:325 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort)2015-01-29 02:34:52 WARNING genesis_utils.py:325 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort esxi 5.5 u2 nos 4.0.2.2 I ve done a lot of install of 4.0.2.2, first time I see this error. vinny

I attempted an upgrade of NCC however it is stuck. Is there a way to restart the upgrade?

Hi, after upgradeing to AOS 5.5.0.7 from 5.1.3 yesterday I am getting alerts saying that "Pulse cannot connect to REST server endpoint. Connection Status: Unknown, Pulse Enabled: Unknown, Error Message: Unable to determine Pulse connectivity status to REST endpoint." When configuring Pulse it shows me connection method SMTP. Am I missing something? Firewall is open for insights.nutanix.com (no proxy involved): code:14:15:48 Packet filter rule #106 TCP 10.46.17.xxx:34966→206.169.130.226:443 [syn] len=52 ttl=62 tos=0x00 srcmac=my:hp:ro:ut:er:00 dstmac=00:1a:8c:f0:36:e414:15:49 Packet filter rule #106 TCP 10.46.17.yyy:51438→206.169.130.226:443 [syn] len=52 ttl=62 tos=0x00 srcmac=my:hp:ro:ut:er:00 dstmac=00:1a:8c:f0:36:e4 best regards Steffen

Just implementing a new cluster and I've ran foundation with NOS4.5.1.2 and ESX 6. The ESXi hosts have not yet been connected to vCenter. One of the post image steps is to set the correct time zone for the cluster. It says that each CVM needs to be shutdown in Serial. Is this a simple case of connecting to a each ESXi host and shutting down the CVM, Power it back on, connect to the CVM, via http://cvmip to check that it is up, then move on to the next ESXi host and repeat? Thanks Chris

After a failed upgrade that resulted in a failed node, we reinstalled the node and added it as a remote site so we could migrate to it and reinstall the other nodes. When I added the site on the old cluster it works as expected, but on the reinstalled node I cant add any vStore Mappings and are instead greeted with this message "Remote Datastores are either not configured or not accessible." When I run ncli> remote-site list on the reinstalled node I get: Status : unreachable and on the old cluster: Status : relationship established Is there any log output/command that could help me troubleshoot this further?

We are using Nutanix ( AOS 5.5.0.6) with AHV-Hypervisor. Connecting to a VM(W2K12,W2K8, German) via Prim & VNC-Console there is no possibility to change Keyboard-Layout. Our Computers are on Win7 - German with German QWERTZ - Keyboard Layout. No matter which Browser we are using (IE11, Chrome, Firefox) we can not type special characters like \ / . We also tried the American Key for / \ without success. Is there a posibility to fix this Problem? Or is it a Bug ? Looking forward to hear your comments: F.Hil

Dears, i have nutanix cluster 1350 and when i try to upgrade foundation of it i got below error : Could not find any node with foundation version < foundation-3.9-d31ad270 failed so please advise , despite it show attached photo

Encountering below error when configuring hyper-v cluster on Nutanix AOS 5.5.0.5 An error occurred while performing the operation Could not logon as the specified user 1385

Hey Guys, I have a question: Let's say a customer needs to deploy some Oracle databases. As wel all know, licensing is expensive.. In this scenario they have a 11 node cluster. Would it be possible to have 2 nodes run on AHV with oracle whilst the remaining 9 nodes run on ESXI?(They only need 2 nodes hence they don't want to use a third node & create another cluster + They would like to benefit from erase coding.) This would cut the Oracle costs by a huge amount. Or are there any other solutions for this? Thanks in advance! Sebastiaan

Hi, I have a Huawei Switch S7706 (10G) which is used with Cisco LR/ SR SFP+ to connect devices. Wish to know the Nutanix standard DAC Cable C-CBL-5M-SFP+-SFP+ is also compatible ? Or from where can I get a technical spec of the cable which can be given/compared with the Switch Provider. Thanks in advance SK

How to enable promiscuous mode on AHV ? 

From this beautiful copy & paste, you can see that I can ping my laptop "ford" by pinging the fqdn. --------------------------------------------------: nutanix@NTNX-J10AMX4-A-CVM:10.1.16.112:~$ ping ford.domain.localPING ford.domain.local (172.16.16.99) 56(84) bytes of data.64 bytes from 172.16.16.99: icmp_seq=1 ttl=128 time=3.05 ms64 bytes from 172.16.16.99: icmp_seq=2 ttl=128 time=2.76 ms^C--- ford.domain.local ping statistics ---2 packets transmitted, 2 received, 0% packet loss, time 1661msrtt min/avg/max/mdev = 2.767/2.910/3.054/0.153 msnutanix@NTNX-J10AMX4-A-CVM:10.1.16.112:~$ ping fordping: unknown host fordnutanix@NTNX-J10AMX4-A-CVM:10.1.16.112:~$ -------------------------------------------------- Name Servers are set through the GUI -------------------------------------------------- nutanix@NTNX-J10AMX4-A-CVM:10.1.16.112:~$ cat -v /etc/resolv.conf# Auto generated by DnsConfig on Mon Dec 18 17:52:54 2017nameserver 10.1.16.10nameserver 10.1.16.11nutanix@NTNX-J10AMX4-A-CVM:10.1.

Hello I don't know if this will be useful for anyone but I came up with a few command lines to change the default passwords for the CVM and IPMI users and create a new user to mimic the dell DRAC's user #change IPMI passwordfor i in `hostips`; do ssh root@$i 'for id in `/ipmitool user list |grep 'ADMIN '|cut -d" " -f1`;do echo $id;/ipmitool user set password $id ;done' ; donefor i in `ncli host list | grep -E 'ID ' | cut -d":" -f4`; do ncli host edit id=$i ipmi-password=; done #create root user on all nodes ipmi to keep consitant with Dell Dracfor i in `hostips`; do ssh root@$i '/ipmitool user set name 3 root;/ipmitool user set password 3 ; /ipmitool user priv 3 4;/ipmitool channel setaccess 1 3 privilege=4;/ipmitool user enable 3' ; done # change esxi passwordfor i in `hostips`;do echo "--$i--";ssh root@$i 'echo -e "" | passwd';done #change cvm passwordfor i in `svmips`;do echo "--$i--";ssh nutanix@$i 'echo -e "" | sudo passwd nutanix';done

Hi, I am doing some tests with creating and deleting large files in a sles12 installation on our AHV environment. I use an ext4 filesystem and have enabled the trim/discard feature for the filesystem and lvm. But when i delete a large file with random data (5g size) the storage backend of the cluster does not see that the former used storage is now not longer used. I tried fstrim to initiate the cleanup but that doesn´t work. If I write zeros to the file/partition/filesystem then the backend gets backs the storage. Is trim/discard supported to tell the storage backend that filesystem space is no longer needed or does anybody has experience with such a setup ? Thank you for your help. Regards Hans

Hi there, I don't seem to be able to see any way of letting SSP users take Snapshots of VMs. Is this something that is possible? Cheers, Tim