Installation & Configuration

Hi Team , I would like to know what is the command or how to setup the Prism to stay active 24/7 without timeout or automatically logout due to inactivity? Because of my helpdesk center is working on monitoring Nutanix cluster in Asia and would like the Prism maindashboard to be stay and not logout due to inactivity. Kindly advice please.

hi all, I have problem for IPMI,Enable the VLAN in the WEB,so now,I con't unable to connect to IPMI. In order to solve this problem,ihave try the following methods:

Hello, A few of the IPMI ports on a new installation (3K and 6K series) show "no connect" in the BIOS. The ones that are working show "Dedicated LAN." Our networking folks have verified the ports as access ports, and are active with the correct VLAN ID configured. We will be swapping the ports on the switch between the working/non-working IPMI ports to confirm if the issue is on the switch or node side. Could there be some BIOS settings we may have missed? Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Unable to create cluster, getting failed with the following message 2015-07-17 00:49:07 WARNING genesis_utils.py:508 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort)2015-07-17 00:49:09 WARNING genesis_utils.py:508 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort)2015-07-17 00:49:10 WARNING genesis_utils.py:508 Failed to reach a node where Genesis is up. Retrying... (Hit Ctrl-C to abort) Checked in genesis log, found the below message Failed to set up key based SSH access to hypervisor, most likely because we do not have the correct password cached. Please run fix_host_ssh command manually to fix this problem. Unable to ssh host. Please check and let me know

hi, in the vsphere administrative guide its mentioned to use vmware SRM along with nutanix SRA for the remote replication.if nutanix have its own replication method what is the significance of SRM? Thanks in adance. RGDS rj

Hi, I actually have one query.In case of microsoft cluster their is a requirement of quorum disk.so normallly in vmware environments the disk used for quorum is RDM.so my question is how we can resolve this problem in nutanix box.?.i found some post in the nutanix community that their is a seperate Enterprise licensing, SQL AlwaysOn availability groups required for the microsoft cluster to achieve local datastore for the cluster or using tool called SIOS DataKeeper.Can someone please advise on this.thanks in advance.

Hello,is it possible to enable compression on an existing container?What will happen to the data already written?We want to enable post-process compression, so I hope the Curator MapReduce framework will compress all data concerned.Can somebody please confirm or correct?thanks in advance!W.

Hi Team, I read the spec on Nutanix 1420 and see that: 2x 1 GbE, Opt. NIC (add. Dual-Port1 GbE), 1x 10/100 BASE-T RJ45 Is it have 2x1GbE NIC fiber optical and 1x100MbE NIC RJ45 by default? And is support for both SFP+ and XFP+? About Dual port 1GbE, we need to order? Thank you.

How to remove ipmi vlan id when ncli / command line does not work on host and cvm? Unable to ping and access ipmi via browser. Kindly advise please.

I cannot seem to get Active Directory authentication configured and cannot figure out why. After following the directions in the support article "Configuring Authentication" I receive the message "Directory config name is invalid". Here is what I have tried: using the IP rather than the host name, turning off the firewall on the DC, using a different AD host, trying different ports (i.e. 389 and 3268), trying a different browser (firefox and IE), specifying the full directory path (/ou=,dc=,dc=) - nothing seems to work. I just keep getting the error message "Directory config name is invalid". I can ping the DC host from the CVM using the FQDN; firewall issues have been ruled out by turning off the firewall; the LDAP url is typed correctly. My thought is that this feature simply isn't working correctly on 4.1.3. Has anyone else experienced problems getting AD configured properly?

Hi, After upgrade to 4.1.3 I can't access GUI and ncc shows Detailed information for virtual_ip_check:Node FAIL: Failed to fetch prism page from virtual IP : ; Error : Service pages 2009,2010 etc are available. Cluster status shows everything is ok. Does anybody know how to fix this?

This is probably in the wrong Forum but I couldn't see a more appropriate one to use. Has Nutanix issues a staement in relation to the Leap Second adjustment that's occuring on June 30th and whether it's likely to cause any problems? Thanks

Team, I would like to install SSL Certificate for my cluster. I have 3 nodes in it and I am wondering how many certificates should I request. 1 single certificate for the entire cluster (The CSR will be generated using the Leader, but what is going to happen if the leader changes) or should I request 3 certificates (one for each cvm) ? Many thanks in advance, Regards, Thibaut

Have a customer that we just installed new 6035 nodes using the Haswell chip. Found that they had an issue where CVM network latency checks would periodically fail. Inspecting the log with support showed occasional 70ms+ spikes both for CVM-to-CVM and CVM-to-gateway settings. This is a vSphere 5.5 U2 cluster, so we set the power settings for high-performance instead of balanced (default by foundation) and the latency issue went away. We're guessing there is some new ACPI tweaks required by VMware for ESXi. After configuring high performance, the latency between CVMs went from .2 to .3 millisecond average (typical) to more in the .07 - .09 range, and so far we're no longer observing any big spikes.

Hi, There is a fun bug with version 4.1.2.1 ... (or its me?.. :cathappy: ) In version 4.1.1.4, it was possible to update Hypervisor via PRISM UI (with version 5.5u2), but in version 4.1.2.1, its not possible :(see below) Thks guys ! Sig'

Hi Everyone, I've planed to deploy Spunk on Nutanix on my Company. But i'm newbie in Nutanix, so I have some question about this: 1. Nutanix have hypervisor which I can use is ESXi, HyperV,KVM... so in my case, I will use Esxi and rehat to install Splunk. it's mean I have install Splunk on Redhat which is running on ESXi, is it right? Can i install Redhat directly to Nutanix server (1 node have 4 server?) 2. About the Cluster, Which is control the cluster on VM Host? Vmware vCenter or Nutanix Prism Central? 3. Nutanix have an OS is VM Controller? is it install on Vmware machine or is it a hypervisor? Thanks for all reply to make my clear this stuff.

So the hosts themselves have been changed accordingly for the timezone the customer wants, but was wondering, for Prism to show the correct timestamps on stuff being done, would this come from the CVM time zone or where is the setting for the switching PRISM to use the customer specified timezone for timestamps?

I'm trying to find out what the default networking setup looks like for a hyper-v cluster. If we were to take a 3x3060 for example, I assume the 10GB ports are teamed and then both added to a external switch of similar? what about the 1gbs ports? if anyone has a couple of screenshots that would help my curiosity... Cheers Dave

Hello, I'm tring to reset my IPMI password using ipmicfg-win.exe for WIndows, but I got the following error: Can not find a valid IPMI device. Help me! Thanks...

Hi Team , I would like to know what is the default cluster id on a new nutanix node in the config json file. I have edit my json file and unable to create cluster where failed genesis error. I would like to know the default phrase? example : {"rackable_unit_serial": "14SM15290032", "node_uuid": "f771faf1-5cc4-4653-961f-cad2fa96a15f", "node_serial": "ZM144S054999", "node_position": "A", "cluster_id":"15311", "rackable_unit_model": "NX-1050"} What cluster id i should use? tried delete it but still cant create cluster.

Hi, I am new to Nutanix world. I would like to know about the MSL 2024 FC Tape drive solution integration with Nutanix Servers. I have found the Network FC Cards for Network cards but not able to find FC HBA for external storage connectivity. Please reply. Thanks.

Hi Guys, Ive been trying to reimage a block of mine but it keeps failing. from the foundation logs , it keep showing this message. im able to access to IPMI directly using the ip address. Stopping imaging thread poolImaging thread pool stoppedTraceback (most recent call last): File "/home/nutanix/foundation/lib/installer.py", line 390, in service_imaging_thread foundation_port) File "/home/nutanix/foundation/lib/installer.py", line 365, in do_imaging imaging_step.pre_threading_prep() File "/home/nutanix/foundation/lib/imaging_step_type_detection.py", line 187, in pre_threading_prep raise StandardError(error_message(result, node_config.ipmi_ip))StandardError: Foundation couldn't reach the IPMI interface at 192.168.100.101. Please double-check your IP addresses and network setup.

Any thoughts about moving the CVM to a non-daylight saving timezone We typically use the GMT timezone of Atlantic/Reykjavik.

Hi guys, i'm new to nutanix and was assigned to take nutanix. I would need some helps in further understanding all about it. Any rules, foundation, rules, knowledge i should know ? What are the more common technical problem? Any help would be appreciated.

I can't really find good instructions for this or else I am just not understanding, but if we are adding new nodes to an existing Nutanix AND Hyper-V cluster and therefore are not creating a new storage cluster name and what not, can the setup_hosts script be used in that case? I was thinking from looking at that, it does more than just rename hosts, add to domain, tell it to use 10Gb and reboot. Essentially, I have new nodes with Hyper-V and NOS installed and i know I could easily expand the Nutanix cluster itself from Prism, but for the piece of adding the new hosts to the domain and sucking up into SCVMM, i wasn't so sure. I was initially thinking i would just run the "setup_hosts" script and skip the "setup_scvmm" script (as i am using existing failover cluster from the first blocks installed), however looking at the setup_hosts script, i see it prompts for actually configuring the public address of the SMB share and/or name, etc. I don't really nee