Installation & Configuration

Customer has two small VMware environments, each with only 2 Dell servers. First environment is running roughly 15-17 VMs for things like Active Directly, SQL Server and apps under VMware Essentials License which provides upto 3x dual socket servers. Second environment is running virtual approximately 30 virtual desktops under VMware View licenses for 30 seats. This license doesn't restrict how many sockets, just 30 active desktops. Since this is such a small environment, even with a conservative sizing, it can easily fit on a single cluster. The main issue is licensing. Now for the question - Is it possible to mix licenses on a Nutanix cluster with some nodes licensed VMware Essentials and some nodes licensed under VMware View?

I do not see an explaination as to why a single container is the best practice. Does having multiple containers cause more overhead(other than the memory use)? It seems like an obvious choice would be to put your OS VM's that are virtually identical in a deduped container to maximize space savings. Then put any user data vDisks in a compressed container. Just looking for some input on why this is not a good idea.

Hi folks ! My client asked me a quite though question today : since we are bounded to CISCO Nexus for physical switches, we digged on a low latency nexus with SFP+ connection. It seems that 3064-X is a good choice but as far as I know, Cisco SFP+ compatibility with 3rd party is azardeous. 2 questions : Are there some kind of hardware restriction w/ Nutanix Supermicro stuff appart from SFP+ cable (MOLEX 074752 series as far as I know) ? Is there a compatibility matrix of this granularity level somewhere ? best regards,

What is the recommended CPU performance setting for AHV? Im curious if AHV has the ability to interract with the Intel throttling or if it's better to just have it run full speed all the time. The CPU power options are: Performance Per Watt DAPC Performance Per Watt OS Performance Acropolis Hypervisor 201602173 Dell xc730xd nodes with 2 X Xeon E5-2630 v3 @ 2.40GHz The Dell Active Power Control (DAPC) mode allows the BIOS to manage the processor power states in order to achieve Performance/Watt maximized at all utilization levels and workload types while still meeting performance requirements. In the OS (Demand Based Power Management (DBPM) mode, the operating system (OS) controls the processor’s power management. In the Maximum Performance mode, the processor runs at the highest frequency all the time. Performance Per Watt Optimized (DAPC) This mode allows the BIOS to manage the processor power states in order to achieve Performance/Watt maximized at all utilization le

I've searched and cannot find documentation on maximum vCPUs, RAM and disk can be allowcated to a VM on Acropolis. Also looking to see if there is a limitation to how many VMs can run on one host. Can someone point me in the right direction?

Hi , has anyone encounter any issue regarding firefox running on foundation 3.1 or 3.1.0.1 ? I've tried deployed or even upgrade my foundation from the older version to 3.1 and it seems that the same issue still happen on firefox. Regards, Edwin.

Hi , I would like to know how can I access the new created VM (windows 2008R2) running on AHV platform? is there aVM console in the prism to view the OS and enable the remote access?Is nutanix require any tool to be installed on VM OS like vmwaretools to in vmware platform ? Regards,

Hi guys, trying to image 3 nodes with hyper-v 2012 R2 using foundation but 1st and 3rd node fails at 4% and 2nd node completes with 100% success. I am losing my patience :( Need some help. Thanks

Hello Guys Any question? I have cluster Nutanix with VMWare ESXi 6.0 in a LAB, but I need the version 5.5. Is possible run a downgrade of ESXi version or is necessary reinstall Phoenix and VMware Thanks for your comment Regards Sebastian

I have a cluster in China running 4.5.x Because I upgraded my prism central to 4.6.x and didn't realize the older 4.5 was not supported I have to upgrade the cluster too. the unit in Mexico was able to download and install from the GUI. The download in China seem to get stuck, so I clicked the cancel download button. now I'm trying to upload the latest 4.5 code from a machine in china through the GUI. But it just errors out. The alerts say the download is still running. Not sure how to move forward from this point. Thanks,jb

Hello, is it posible to create a streched Cluster with Hyper-V? Is there a site awareness, so one side of the Cluster can go down? Or a workaround? Ideas? Best Wishes Johannes

Hello Guys, I need your help because I run into a strange issue with my Nutanix cluster (NOS 4.6). Nutanix generates a warning as below: "Data Protection > Protection Domain > Container Mount > Containers are not mounted on all nodes". We've got only one container and it's properly mounted on all ESXi 6.0 hosts. NCC (ncc health_checks data_protection_checks protection_domain_checks container_mount_check) returns: Detailed information for container_mount_check:Node 172.30.10.13:FAIL:Container ntnx-ds not mounted in : 172.30.10.111 172.30.10.112Node 172.30.10.12:FAIL:Container ntnx-ds not mounted in : 172.30.10.111 172.30.10.113Node 172.30.10.11:FAIL:Container ntnx-ds not mounted in : 172.30.10.112 172.30.10.113Refer to KB 1888 for details on container_mount_check I've checked all tips from KB article 1888 but everything seems to be OK. Furthermore the cluster has been restarted, warning is still presented. Except the warning the cluster works just fine. When I've deleted

Hi, I have ploblem with foundation installation(3.0.4). In hypervision image page i choose esxi iso but when process completed, the result display AHV instead of exsi. What is the problem and how to solve it ? :D

Hi All, According to my material on hand that Nutanix will keep a copy in local storage for local data required. So if there are some storage intensive VMs running in one node and the local storage in that node is not enough for data of all local VM, some data should still need to be retrieved in remote node? would like to know the exact behavior. And one more question for DR. If I use vsphere, I still need to buy SRM license or SRM is optional (e.g. for some dedicated features?). For Hyper-V, since the DR feature of Hyper-V is not as rich as VM, can we still use the "Protect Domain" feature in Nutanix for DR in Hyper-V? Thanks a lot in advance! Best Regards, Teru Lei

Nice write up from  on the Nutanix sizer Check out his blog post here Lots of great screenshots and good explanation. In case you didn't know, The sizer lets you create scenarios that can be tailored to your requirement.

I went about updating a couple ESXi hosts the old school way with using zip files and doing vib installs. My first host worked without a hitch. My second victim... I mean host is having problems. In total I installed 4 zips per host. After bringing the second one back out of maintenence mode, and having the CVM start, a few minutes later I keep getting errors about the CVM not connecting. Then I check the console on the CVM in question, and it keeps rebooting, after a kernel panic. Here's the beginning of the output: Any insight on what I can do?

how to find the hardware dimension,power rating of NX-3260-G4,NX-3460-G4,NX-8135-G4,NX-8235-G4.

any procedure to remove working disk from nutanix box and adding it back for doing jetstress testing can anyone help

Hi Folks, Got something wiered happened today, might be a bug or something. I was to change current time zone setting by Get-NTNXCluster | Set-NTNXCluster -Timezone "Australia/Sydney" However it throw me an error: "The cluster name may contain only English letters, decimal digits (0-9), dots, hyphens and underscores. Set-NTNXCluster : The remote server returned an error: (500) Internal Server Error." Then I thought it might be because I did not include cluster id, so I ran below command : Get-NTNXContainer -Id xxxxxxx-xxxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxx-xxxxxxxxxxxxxx::4769 | Set-NTNXCluster -Timezone "Australia/Sydney" Apprently you will find instead of using Get-NTNXCluster, I used Get-NTNXContainer which I copied from command I previously ran without double check, you would assume that will throw me an error, but it did not, it finished with a "Success". Yes, it did change the timezone on the cluster, however at the same time it changed cluster name to the Container name as wel

Hi Folks, I'm in the middle of a deployment and have a question. We have a pair of Nexus 3548's acting as 10 G edge switch to our Nuntanix Clusters who are trunked up to a pair of Cisco 4500's We have 4 nodes in the cluster with a total of 10 nics all 10 gig and assigned to the VDS in Vsphere. On the VDS we set the MTU to 9000 Is there a way to separate the CVM traffic from the management traffic? I would like to keep the CVM traffic from going up to the 4500's however we needed to create an SVI on the 4500's so we could manage them. I'm getting Jumbo frame errors on both the Nexus and the 4500's and when I set the MTU on the VDS back to 1500 the errors went away. My guess is the CVM traffic is what's causing the issues and I would prefre not to mess with the MTU settings on the 4500's. What is best practice here? What are other doing? Thanks

Hi all! I'm currently working on a Nutanix Template for Zabbix that I will share with community once it's finished. I've a little problem with some SNMP answers Zabbix receives from prism. I'm asking for OID 1.3.6.1.4.1.41263.11.1.3.1 This OID is the cstControllerVMStatus.1. It should return Up or Down if the CVM with index 1 is Up or Down. When I run it in Zabbix, the answer is "55 70 00". Is "55 70 00" a value that means 'Up'? In this case what is the value for 'Down'? Regards,

Hello Nutanix community, Yesterday, I tried installing a Nutanix block by Foundation PC to change the hypervisor from HyperV to AHV. But unluckily error occurred with 3 nodes per 4 nodes and one node had been successfully installed. Although all 4 nodes had already run with the same configuration before, why this case happened?! After 1 day troubleshooting, I had finally and luckily installed 3 nodes left by resetting IPMI on these nodes. As I already followed the Foundation document from Nutanix, "please have a look at the logs files at /data/logs/foundation... on each nodes" to get the details of problem, but actually, in my case those log files did not contain any data that related to the errors occurred?! So how could I dive deeper into the problem that I had? They were still there but no words, to sentences, no data?! I really need a document that explains in detail how Foundation works, so that I can troubleshoot it easier than I had yesterday. Can Nutanix publicily post it

Hello All, We have Four Node XC730xd-24 Cluster running on NOS 4.0.2, last nIght I have applied Esxi patches on all four esxi hosts. After all the operation one of the CVM is showing PXE boot error. As i ran the Cluster status command its showing CVM with 10.201.x.X is down. I have tried restarting the machine but no luck its still the same. Kindly help !!!

Hi Team , I would like to know if my Nutanix 3 x nodes cluster has 64GB RAM each , can i provision a single VM with 128GB RAM in a single host or do i need to manual remove physical RAM and put all in a single host to provision the VM? NOS : 4.5.0.2 Hypervisor: Hyper-V

Hi, i have been using Foundation 3.0 to reimage 6 new nodes, they are separate in 4 blocks. There are three 6035-G4 and three 6035-C. While using Foundation i have selected to install ESXi 6.0 and the NOS version is 4.5.2 For a weird reason (im new at nutanix) three of them (6035-C) where intalled with AHV and three of them with ESXi 6.0 (6035-G4). Is this an expected behaviour? Regards. Francisco.-