Installation & Configuration

I tried installing Nutanix CE. Created boot USB with rufus, booted and the installation starter. I can see NIC are looking for IP addresses, and one of the interfaces receives an IP from DHCP server.After some time I get the error message with starting a service:[FAILED] Failed to start Systems Management Device DriversAfter that the installation hang up to a shell with some Python related error: SyntaxWarning: “is not” with a literal. Did you mean “!=”?I know this is just a warning message, but I have there several lines of error ending with:AttributeError: ‘NoneType’ object has no attribute ‘dev’ The server is R630 with two CPUs, 4x NIC (Broadcom and 2x 10Gb Intel (where the network cable is plugged in). 

I’m getting failed when I try to move some physical NICs back into a virtual switch.Will I need to do something manually?Here is the error:Failed to apply Virtual Switch config on canary node, error: Failed to apply virtual switch config on the host:8f1ac7f1-fb84-4ec5-ade4-96365016f570. update_bridge_bond ERROR: Adding bond:[{'bond_type': 'balance-tcp', 'interfaces': ['eth3', 'eth4'], 'lacp': 'active', 'mtu': 1500, 'name': 'br1-up', 'other_config': {'lacp-fallback-ab': True, 'lacp-time': 'fast'}}] to bridge:br1.Exception("Command failed: ovs-vsctl add-bond br1 br1-up eth3 eth4 bond_mode=balance-tcp lacp=active other_config:lacp-fallback-ab=True other_config:lacp-time=fast: b'ovs-vsctl: cannot create a port named br1-up because a bridge named br1-up already exists\n'",)My goal is to move eth3 and eth4 into a br1-up under vs1.

In this single-node hardware environment (24C/384GB/4x800GB) I have installed Nutanix CE 2.1 which work fine.  I then wanted to test Prism Central and deployed it in size x-small which turned out to be too small (could not do all fun stuff).  How do I increase it to size small instaead?I tried to just add the extra cpus and memory to match the size of small, but that was not enough, it still said that it was x-small.  Then I tried to remove PC to create a new larger one, but it wasn’t as easy as I thought.  The VM wasn’t possible to delete without deregister but the deregister was blocked but a objects-lite database which wasn’t possible to remove!  It just referred to KB-17159 which literally only said “Contact Nutanix support”…  But this is CE and I’m just a partner playing around without support…Any procedure for size upgrade of Prism Central?  (I searched in the portal but failed)

I have a question. We are migrating from VMware to AHV. While we’ve been running VMware on top of Nutanix for years, now we’re using AHV instead of ESXi.On ESXi I had a number of VM templates for different OSes. I’m unclear on how to do the same under Nutanix. I have a working VM that want to convert into a template. On VMware, the sysprep step was kicked off by the “Create a VM from this template” option, when using a Customization configuration . Meaning I didn’t have to manually ever run sysprep, and the sysprep application was not needed in the template itself. Sysprep was run and invoked by the vSphere customization script.How do I do the same in AHV? IOW, I want to just “Create VM from template”. Do I have to run the sysprep command manually myself, before I convert the VM to a template? Or does the customization step do that? If so, where do I upload sysprep so that the customization step has access to it?https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide

I have installed Nutanix Community Edition but cannot complete the Next authentication.I have configured the IP of the CVM and the external IP of the cluster.The CVM can resolve the name of www.nutanix.com.I can log in to my.nutanix.com, portal.nutanix.com, and next.nutanix.com. However, when I enter my email address and click "Get Started" at the following URL, I receive the message below and cannot proceed: "It seems your My Nutanix account is not activated, please go to my.nutanix.com to complete the process"https://www.nutanix.com/products/community-edition/registerI have already created an account and can log in freely. Is there anything additional I need to do?

Nutanix Compatibility matrix shows that they support the next version of VMWare but there is no 1-click upgrade. I am running on HPE machines and we have been burned in the past where if we use an “off the shelf” ESXi .iso from VMWare it breaks the linkages from VMWare to Nutanix.  We can only use an HPE branded (drivers included) VMWare .iso so that the Nutanix tools (vsan and VAAI) work.  Broadcom has taken over VMWare they do not supply HPE branded .iso for upgrades according to the Broadcom case I opened. Nutanix does not supply upgrade paths for VMWare according to the Nutanix case I opened.HPE does not integrate with Broadcom anymore according to the HPE case I opened. How do you upgrade your VMWare deployment on a Nutanix linked Prism Central without a full rebuild?

Good day! Tell me, we previously purchased a Nutanix Lenovo HX5520 cluster - 4 nodes (sn: J304G3WK). Now we need to re-equip this cluster with larger SSD and HDD disksAs it is now:CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6242 16C ​​150W 2.8GHz Processor - 2 pcs.RAM: 32GB TruDDR4 2933 MHz (2Rx4 1.2V) RDIMM - 12 pcs.SSD: ThinkSystem 3.5" PM883 3.84TB Entry SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD - 2 pcs.HDD: ThinkSystem 3.5" 10TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD - 4 pcs.How we want to do it:CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6242 16C ​​150W 2.8GHz Processor - 2 pcs.RAM: 32GB TruDDR4 2933 MHz (2Rx4 1.2V) RDIMM - 12 pcs.SSD: ThinkSystem 3.5" PM1653 7.68TB Read Intensive SAS 24Gb HS SSD - 4 pcs.HDD: ThinkSystem 3.5" 20TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD - 8 pcs.Will the cluster start with the new disk configuration?

Добрый день! Подскажите, у нас были ранее куплен кластер Nutanix Lenovo HX5520 - 4 node (sn: J304G3WK). Сейчас этот кластер нам необходимо переоснастить дисками ssd и hdd большего размераКак есть сейчас:CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6242 16C 150W 2.8GHz Processor - 2 шт.RAM: 32GB TruDDR4 2933 MHz (2Rx4 1.2V) RDIMM - 12 шт.SSD: ThinkSystem 3.5" PM883 3.84TB Entry SATA 6Gb Hot Swap SSD - 2 шт.HDD: ThinkSystem 3.5" 10TB 7.2K SATA 6Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD - 4 шт Как хотим сделать:CPU: Intel Xeon Gold 6242 16C 150W 2.8GHz Processor - 2 шт.RAM: 32GB TruDDR4 2933 MHz (2Rx4 1.2V) RDIMM - 12 шт.SSD: ThinkSystem 3.5" PM1653 7.68TB Read Intensive SAS 24Gb HS SSD - 4 штHDD: ThinkSystem 3.5" 20TB 7.2K SAS 12Gb Hot Swap 512e HDD - 8 шт. Запуститься ли кластер с новой конфигурацией дисков?

Hi new here, I have set up a one node cluster following the Nutanix university videos. I added a subnet with vlan 500 on the the vs0 and installed 2 VMs  and connected both to the same subnet  however I can not reach any but can reach the CVM & host would there be a step am missing?

Hello,We have recently set up a new Nutanix infrastructure consisting of two clusters, each with three AHV nodes.The hardware comprises ThinkAgile HX650 V3 CN servers, equipped with Intel(R) Xeon(R) Silver 4416+ CPUs (2GHz, up to 3.9GHz).The BIOS of the AHVs is configured to Performance Schedutil.Our concern is that the VMs are operating at a CPU frequency of 2GHz. Monitoring shows that the CPU frequency never exceeds 2GHz, while the AHV CPUs average around 2.8GHz.Is this behavior a bug, or is it by design? Is there a way to change and increase the CPU frequencies used by the VMs? We are still learning about the Nutanix infrastructure and would appreciate your assistance.Thank you.

I have a question.I installed AHV on three servers and successfully configured a cluster. I left the network settings as default during the installation. However, after the setup, when I check the Network Configuration, I notice that on one of the servers, all uplink ports are missing.The strange part is that this doesn’t always happen on the same server — it randomly affects one of the three servers. On the affected server, all uplink ports are shown as disconnected.So I try to configure the bond again by selecting the disconnected uplink ports. When I do this, the server enters maintenance mode and starts a rolling upgrade process, but it never completes — it just stays stuck in a pending state.I checked the server’s BIOS settings, and everything looks normal there.What could be causing this issue?  

Hi can these compatibility errors:cause this error: or is this 2 separated issues? where the system/server is not recognized?  and if so, i have tried to find a list of supported hdd of the same size, 600gbeverything is working, except that i cant upgrade ahv 

When I go to PrismCentral registration and enter configuration items => deploy, the following message is detected and it will not deploy.~~~~Prism Element is not compatible to enable Microservice Infrastructure: domain name resolution foprism-central.cluster.local failedthe domain name resolution is okay , juste DNS server respond =10;How can we tackle this problem? ~~~~ 

Hello!I’m unable to enable FNS on my test CE nutanix cluster, even after updating both Element and Central to the newest version using LCM.If anyone have any clue of what I’ve done wrong, it would be much appreciated.

Hello, just finished installing a new CE 2.1 cluster to experiment a bit, and a new Prism Central. Trying to enable Network Controller, but it says my cluster is not supported. Is this not a feature supported by CE?Or would I have to use a different Prism Central version?

Hi! I’m trying to segment, the backplane LAN on an already existing cluster, it passes the validation, but then I get this error when it gets to about 45% Anyone know what i’m doing wrong?I’m following this documentation LinkMy CVM’s use 10.10.10.11,21,31And AHV use 10.10.10.10,20,30 Trying to get the backplane to use a 10.10.11.0/24 on a different physical switch. All ports are VLAN tagged with VLAN11 just like the This is the error I get When looking in the Foundation logs, they fail to ping eachother, but I don’t know what the issue there could be, they are using the correct IP’s and the interfaces are up on both sides.

In my struggle to find some environment to practice/test Nutanix admin stuff, I’ve now come to Nutanix Foundation (NCE 2.0 worked but is old, NCE 2.1 failed on some networking issue in my environment).Is it possible to create a small single node cluster running as a VM in VMware Workstation using for example Foundation?I made a few tries but it seemed Foundation required IPMI access to the host, but VMs in VMware don’t have IPMI (to my knowledge).  It thought maybe a new VM could be recognized by Foundation (tried both the Windows version and the VM) if it had booted DiscoveryOS, but I couldn’t find the Discovery OS image anywhere…Is there a way forward for an installation like this or is it a dead end?

SCSI disk 100gb, 16gb mem, Server 2016 standard desktop experience, dual xeon icelakeLikely other configurations, as this has happened with multiple VMs, still collecting data, but wanted to get something started in case others have experience with this.My first thought is obviously some uefi configuration with boot order or something, but doesn’t really make sense, since it only *seems to happen* right after tool updates. *updated as it’s not like we reboot often, maybe it will happen without updating as well.

Dear Team, I have Dell server T350 with 3 HDD of 2TB and 32GB of memory and 4 Core server. I want to deploy Nutanix AHV(Hypervisor) to that server and provision some VMs for LAB. I have downloaded Nutanix CE 2.1 ISO and loaded to USB, cant move ahead of installation after disk selection. Kindly advise on this!!

Hello Nutanix Community,I'm trying to install Nutanix Community Edition (CE), but I'm encountering an InstallerVM timeout issue. The installation keeps retrying, and the hypervisor setup does not complete successfully.My hardware setup:1 HDD (480GB) → Intended for data storage. 1 SSD (2.8TB) → Assigned to CVM storage. 1 USB Drive (32GB) → Used for the hypervisor installation.Issue Description:The installation starts but gets stuck with repeated messages: INFO Hypervisor installation in progress INFO InstallerVM timeout occurred, current retry 0 I have already disabled RAID and set the SATA mode to AHCI in the BIOS. The disks are correctly recognized when using lsblk and fdisk -l. I tried wiping the disks (wipefs -a and dd if=/dev/zero), but the issue persists.Troubleshooting Attempts:Checked system RAM → I have more than 32GB available. USB Boot Media → I recreated the bootable USB with a fresh Nutanix CE ISO.

Hello,After 3 node cluster deployment, I can see 4 CVMs.Two of them looks like the same VM but duplicated.How to fix it and remove one of them? I cannot update vs0 on the node where two CVMs are placed.AHV/CVM reboot did not help. And I cannot use acli on that node. nutanix@NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM:10.170.0.11:~$ ncli vm list Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::7fa39b58-506c-40f9-b5b8-54146d84855e Uuid : b452d890-a399-49b3-b415-e975c489d577 Name : NTNX-b7617012-A-CVM VM IP Addresses : 10.170.0.11, 192.168.5.2, 192.168.5.254 Hypervisor Host Id : 00062cfc-0318-cd70-17eb-005056b90eac::5 Hypervisor Host Uuid : f20c4224-3d4f-4472-bb79-2e8aa0968bc5 Hypervisor Host Name : NTNX-b7617012-A Memory : 20 GiB (21,474,836,480 bytes) Virtual CPUs : 2 VDisk Count : 0 Protection Domain : Consistency Group : Id

I have been trying to install Nutanix phoenix. But everytime i try to install it i run into the same error instsvcdrv.service not being able to start. I have tryed to find the file on the system and start it without any luck.I downloade ce from here = Download Community Edition | Nutanix CommunityThe full line says = Failed to start systems Management Device Drivers.See ‘systemctl status instsvcdrv.service’ for more details. The only other ones i found on here with the same problem was Nutanix CE fails to install | Nutanix Community

Hi,i have to extend a Cluster with ESXi7 HV, and in the foundation Software i have to fill in the vlanid for the cvm.I guess this is the default vlan, so with AHV i knew the commands to find out the vlanid, but with ESXI i have no experience.So could someone tell the the comands to find out the vlanid ?Regards  Uwe

I have a fresh install of CE 2.1.   Single node - Intel S2600GZ (Dual E5-2650).  LSI 2380 HBA. All SSD RAID10 disks. 4x1G Intel NICs.  ~400G for CVM/Data. I create the single node cluster ...waited 2 hours and cluster services are still down.  Thoughts?cluster status output shows:nutanix@NTNX-c3fc6bae-A-CVM:172.16.0.20:~/data/logs$ cs2025-03-10 14:44:49,368Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:136 Using multithreaded Zookeeper client library: 12025-03-10 14:44:49,370Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:248 Parsed cluster id: 5826532148493501106, cluster incarnation id: 17416115932636702025-03-10 14:44:49,371Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:270 cluster is attempting to connect to Zookeeper, host port list zk1:98762025-03-10 14:44:49,388Z INFO Dummy-1 zookeeper_session.py:840 ZK session establishment complete, sessionId=0x1958025e2ec0011, negotiated timeout=20 secs2025-03-10 14:44:49,391Z INFO MainThread cluster:3302 Executing action status on SVMs 172.16.0.202025-03-10 14:44:49

Hi, trying to install a new CE cluster to do some testing, and after I use the  cluster -s cvm1_ip_addr,cvm2_ip_addr,... createcommand, it just gets stuck on the image I’ve inserted. Any ideas what I’m doing wrong?