Installation & Configuration

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

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-bb79-2

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 zk1:9876

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? 

Hi all,we wanne expand our cluster with 2 nodes, there are connected to Network, but wenn we start in Prism the discovery, no nodes will be found.Does anyone have a list of things we need to check RegardsUwe 

Hi TeamI am trying to setup Prism Central in Nutanix CE. I have configured the required details in Prism Console for deploying prism central. My deployment is failing repeatedly and getting the error saying it’s failed in tarball extraction phase. I have tried multiple times and every time I saw the issue in UI. I went through the /home/nutanix/data/logs/genesis.out logs to get more details on the issue. I found something interesting there. When we start the Prism central deployment, it first tried to download the prism central tarball and unzip it. One it’s unzipped then it’s start to convert the qcow2 file to image. when it start to convert the qcow2 → image , the command is configured with a timeout of 1800 sec. Please have a look into the below log line. 2024-07-01 08:55:17,702Z INFO 25030000 uvm.py:1606 Running cmd ['/usr/bin/timeout', '1800', '/usr/local/nutanix/bin/qemu-img', 'convert', '-p', '-f', 'qcow2', '-O', 'raw',

We are planning to renew license for below nodes Nutanix(HCI) NX-1265-G7-2 Nodes Nutanix(HCI) NX-8135-G7-3 Nodes But in the same cluster we have four G5 nodes as well, When we try to apply core license through PC, It doesn’t allow us to only license G7 nodes and we need to select all the cores from all the nodes, It seems that we need to separate the G7 nodes from the cluster just for the licenses to apply, Are we missing anything ?

Looking for best practices or examples for enabling port-forward traffic from Nutanix AOS/AHV hypervisor to the VM.  Here is my setup:Successfully provisioned Nutanix AOS/AHV hypervisor on the PowerEdge server.   Enabled OS to iDRAC passthrough using PowerEdge iDRAC settings as per the document Accessing redfish API via OS-iDRAC interface is successful as shown below:  # curl -k https://169.254.0.1/redfish/v1{"@odata.context":"/redfish/v1/$metadata#ServiceRoot.ServiceRoot" …., Next step I would like to perform similar redfish query from the VMs. How do I enable port-forward us

Hello,After 3 node cluster deployment with CE edition.After fresh installation, I am trying to use LCM to install Software upgrades. (NCC, Foundation and FSM).Any software I try to upgrade, all finish with failed status and at the end some drives are marked as offline: How to find:the reason why all those upgrades fail? way to bring the drives back online?

Hi , I am trying to setup a new Nutanix cluster on Cisco servers managed by UCSM but i am getting  a fatal error , similar like below   Servers are managed by UCSM ,Foundation can ping both UCSM ip and CVM&AHV management  gateway  Exception: Server (WZ) did not shut down in a timely manner 2025-02-17 17:11:33,286Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepInitIPMI(<NodeConfig(10.x.x.x) @7190>) @77f0> from RUNNING to FAILED 2025-02-17 17:11:33,288Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepRAIDCheckPhoenix(<NodeConfig(10.x.x.x)) @7190>) @78b0> from PENDING to NR 2025-02-17 17:11:33,289Z imaging_step.py:182 WARNING Skipping <ImagingStepRAIDCheckPhoenix(<NodeConfig(10.x.x.x)) @7190>) @78b0> because dependencies not met, failed tas

Hi all,my Question concern the Version missmatch between Production Vmware  Version VMwareESXi 7.0 Update 3oand the offered Version in the Hypervisor Support  in Nutanix, here ist the latest Version VMwareESXi 7.0 Update 3f Is this a problem ?Regards Uwe  

why is there feature gaps between, https://github.com/nutanixdev/zerotouch-framework?tab=readme-ov-file and the terraform provider, https://registry.terraform.io/providers/nutanix/nutanix/latest/docsfor example, allows you deploy prism central using https://github.com/nutanixdev/zerotouch-framework/blob/main/config/example-configs/workflow-configs/pc-deploy.yml but there is no terraform resource for prism deployment. why> 

Hi All,so  i maintain a nutanix AHV Cluster since years, but i never expand the cluster myself.Now i hat to expand a Nutanix cluster on HPE wih ESXi7 with new nodes. So first i will install the AOS on the new cluster, configure the Network.And here is my question, had i install the ESXi Hypervisor on the new node before expansion starts or will these done thru the Expansion procedure ?Have anyone a step by step procedure expansion an esxi7 Cluster ?ThanksUwe

When trying to download file server 5.0.0.3 or below the download starts the automatically stops and goes to retry, i click on retry and it goes to resume download,  i click on resume download and starts all over.   I’ve tailed my firewall logs,  it’s not getting blocked at the firewall.  I’ve already done all the upgrades and patches on the system.  Anyone have any ideas?    

Hi Friends, I have 3 x Dell XC blocks which are almost 7-8 years and we have plans to migrate them to XC 660 x 3 blocks.Hypervisors running on VMware. Nutanix starter license.May I know what are the procedures on migration? Heard from reddit folks that is to update existing cluster to latest Nutanix software. Then add the new blocks into the existing cluster. Then let it replication and once ok, slowly remove the older blocks. Then move the VMs to start on the new hypervisors? Thanks    

Hello!This is my environment:LENOVO LHX5521 (ThinkAgile) - Type 7Y90 - (6 Nodes)AOS 6.10ESXi-8.0.1C-22088125Each server comes with a X722 LOM card (4 NIC ports), One or two NIC ports go down if the Lenovo server is restarted. The workaround is to power off and then power on the server.I've seen on Lenovo support sites that updating the LOM card driver to the latest available version is the recommended approach to fix this error. I've downloaded the binary (.BIN) file to the ESXi 8 server (BEST RECIPE 5.5) and extracted it into a temporary folder, but when I try to run the update script, I get an error.[root@NODE1/temp] ./install-nvm-linux-x64-updated.sh-sh: ./install-nvm-linux-x64-updated.sh: not found The first line of the script shows that the Bash shell is required to run it. [root@NODE1/temp] head -2 install-nvm-linux-x64-updated.sh#!/bi

My head is spinning and I don’t know where to begin.  Perhaps this community can help?I’m new to Nutanix and a new admin.  We recently turned on File Analytics and since then, I’m getting alerts every 30-60 minutes about about file PermissionDenied (Count 38,640, Threshold is 10k) from 779 users. Similarly, FileRead (Count 15,733, Threshold is 10k) from 703 users.According to the Excel attachments and FileAnalytics dashboard, desktop.ini appears most frequently. We do have our desktops “locked” to prevent users from adding files to the desktop. I’m thinking about removing that “lock” to see if that improves the statistics.Another thought was indexing… I’ve already enabled the “Prevent automatic adding shared folders to the Windows Search index.” but still not seeing much of an improvement.We are still using MS Sync… maybe I should turn that off?Any one else see something similar?  Any suggestions where to look for the cause? This is the 3rd day and

Scenario:I am setting up Nutanix CE inside an ESXi host that has a public IP. My goal is to ensure that VMs created inside AHV can access the internet and Prism central should also get installed and should be accessible through jump host for API testingCurrent Setup:ESXi Host: Has a public IP. DHCP Network on ESXi: I created a DHCP network and set up a DHCP server inside ESXi. Nutanix CE VM: Installed using Nutanix CE ISO inside ESXi. Assigned to the DHCP network (no static IP set for AHV or CVM). Access to AHV & CVM: Using a jump host (Windows VM) with a public IP, I can access AHV and CVM cons

I have a Riello UPS which takes the CVM username and password, but does not like our particular password because of characters it deems to be illegalThis is a working CVM password but the error on the UPS is:Insert a valid password (chars allowed: a-z A-Z 0-9 , . _ + : @ % / - ) (1-63 chars)How do I create a user with enough rights to shut down all the VMs and then shut down the hosts? User Management within the CVM doesn't allow this… and I am still very new to Nutanix.

I have a Riello UPS which has a Nutanix shutdown option. I am trying to get it working but, since upgrading the OS of the UPS the console will not accept my Cluster CVM password…The error isInsert a valid password (chars allowed: a-z A-Z 0-9 , . _ + : @ % / - ) (1-63 chars)This CVM password is perfectly fine for accessing nutanix but how do I create a user that the UPS will accept? I am not able to create a user from the CVM web console and I am fairly new to nutanix. Before the UPS software was updated it accepted the CVM root user and my Admin credentials from AD, but now I need a new static user and it’s not clear how I achieve this. 

Hello Dears,I want to clarify the best practices in the process of Nutanix foundation AHV on Lenovo HX650-Storage V3 IS?lenovo have 2 network cards- ThinkSystem Broadcom 57416 10GBASE-T 2-port OCP Ethernet Adapter- ThinkSystem Network Adapter 10 GbE PCIe Ethernet Adapterand in foundation should connect one port from XCC management port and one from data port in dummy switch to avoid customer network .in this case we have problem in adding the network card with fiber ports because of don't find the gateway and NTPwhat is the best practice advice to avoid this problem ?Do their is any other way to foundate nutanix on lenovo hardware ?