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How to change CVM name in Prism in Nutanix AHV clusters

The default name of the CVM is in the below format: NTNX-<Block serial number>-<Node position>-CVM This is what you see as the CVM name in the PRISM. If you want to change the CVM name in your AHV cluster, then we have a script for changing this with the following limitations. nutanix...

Separate datastore for SSD and SATA disks under VMWare ESXi

In Nutanix nodes, there are SSD disks and SATA disks. Can we create two separate datastores. One datastore only contains SSD disks and one datastore only contains SATA disks

Upgrade vcenter 6.7 U3

I’m about to upgrade vcenter from 6.7 u1 to 6.7 u3. I’m only upgrading the vCenter for now. My AOS version 5.10.8.1 To upgrade only vVenter is there any action to take in PRISM? Will there be any impact on PRISM? Thanks

IPMI integration with Active Directory

Quick tip of the day. Did you know that you can integrate IPMI with the Active Directory? Note: The default timeout is set at 0, which results in an error message HTTP 500 - Internal Server Error. Make sure to update it to 10. Select the User and then select Add Role Group to configure the Role...

IMPI password recovery: AHV, ESXi and no hypervisor (+bonus)

Companies merge, hosts are inherited and repurposed, administrators come and go and not necessarily leave things in order after themselves. Or what if you forgot the password and the record of it is not recoverable? Where there’s a will, there’s a way. I touched the other day on how ipmitool can be...

Server 2016 VM audio / soundcard?

Hi All I have created a MS server 2016 VM with a view to using it as a desktop , however it does not seem to have away to add anaudio / soundcard device - is there a way to add one in Nutanix? I have found a way in VMware but not Nutanix. Any ideas? Thanks Eric

Using LLDP protocol for details about connected switches

In Nutanix clusters running AHV hypervisors, we can use the LLDP protocol to find more details about the directly connected switches. LLDP needs to be enabled in the switches for the details to be seen in the AHV hosts. From the AHV host, # lldpctl------------------------------------------------...

SUSE PD from ESX to AHV - No Display Drivers

Wandering if someone could point me in the right direction as I am not overally familiar with SUSE. I am replicating from ESX to AVH and have installed NGT. The guest fires in AVH but I have no GUI - it errors that there are no drivers for X. Unfortunately it is stuck in my DR segment for which I...

Remote syslog server

Syslog or ‘System Logging Protocol’ is used by routers, switches, access points, servers and of course Nutanix. It is used to send events and logs to a remote syslog server that collects, organizes and filters these logs. In Nutanix, we provide different log modules for the core services that c...

Can't try Microsegmentation

I want to test Microsegmentation on prism central, but "AHV Free Memory Minimum 1GB for each Prism Central VM" showed up. And I can't enable Enable Microsegmentation check box. 20gb memory assigned to prism central. What was the problem ?

Kernel Panic not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(0,0)

Has anyone else had an issue with installing the lated CE image on esxi7? It seems to shutdown after the hypervisor is created and begins the startup. After you reboot and attempt to run it in regular mode I get this message: If I go into safe mode I get the login prompt with the host name confi...

Nutanix and ESXi patches - are they supported?

When there is a new patch released by VMware for ESXi, you may want to check the Compatibility Matrix on the Portal, but the matrix shows only ESXi versions and update numbers, it doesn’t show every patch build number. What to do and how to understand if the patch is supported or not? Let’s break d...

vcenter appliance step 2 is not working

Hello guys, currently i deployed a new hpe hardware Hypervisor version is ESXi VERSION 6.7.0 I need a vcenter to deploy some VMs in Nutanix, so i downloaded the vcenter applicane and tried to run the setup with admin rights. I have currently no dns server, so i used the gateway. NTP s...

Time Sync on Nutanix Cluster

Here’s my problem. Node A & B are synchronizing to the wrong host. Node C is synchronizing to the right host. This is the behavior I see on the CVMs. When I do “hostssh ntpq -pn”, the hypervisors (AHV) are reporting the correct ntp server. How do I bring nodes A & B back inline to what...

vSphere Standard Switch

esxi 6.5 u2 vSwitch configured as 1 active uplink and 1 standby uplink on esxi nutanix. I didnt understand why the standby adapter in which scenarios. I wonder why and in what scenarios it is used. can i use both 10 GB network adaptor active-active mode in Virtual Standard Switches (VSS).

Atlassian container on AHV

Hello, I am new and I am interested in whether Nutanix acropolis supports Atlassian products Bamboo, Bitbucket, Jira? Does anyone have experience with their containers on the Nutanix platform?

.dvsData directory is not persistent yet on 5.15 LTS with ESXi 6.7

I have a problem with OS and Distributed Switches on vCenter. When I migrate the vm-network from standard switch to distributed switch show the next error: Detailed information for cvm_startup_dependency_check:Node x.x.x.x: FAIL: .dvsData directory is not persistent yetRefer to KB 2050 (http://por...

Which hypervisor Hyper-V or AHV?

Hi, New to the forum, we recently had our Nutanix servers delivered and we are planning to do the install in the coming weeks. We haven’t decided which hypervisor to go with yet its either going to be Hyper-V or AHV. I just wanted to know peoples experiences that they have had? We currently use...

Troubleshooting NGT SSR

Hello community, I am facing a situation with some VMs, where the SSR-part of the Nutanis Guest Tools is causing some trouble. I have two VMs and created a Protection Domain for this to be able to play around with snap restore. One VM is working perfectly, the other VM displays: “Error executing...

AOS update with resilience issue

Hello, We have a cluster with 4 nodes and I will perform the update from 5.9.4.2 to 5.10.10.1. a some minutes ago, I see that my cluster have a disk space problem and the resilience board is red with the “not resilience” information. In this case I will have a problem when perform the AOS upgrade...

Bro...Br1 question

I’m trying to setup a new bridge (br1). After ssh to the Nutanix AHV, I continue with input “ssh root@xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx” to get to the CVM, it ask me for a password. Is there a way to change/ continue with a different logon name as well at that? The password I input is being denied due a differen...

LCM firmware udpate failed performing action reboot_from_phoenix

Hi, everyone I’m trying to use LCM to update firmware of host machines on my cluster. It all went well until the post action phase. Error message said: ‘Operation failed. Reason: LCM failed performing action reboot_from_phoenix in phase PostActions on ip address xx’. I searched the KB and found KB...

Why RF2 & N+1 configuration reserves more capacity than RF2

Hello, comunity I’m been trying to figure out why the configuration with RF2 & N+1 reserves more capacity than just RF2. I understand that with RF2 all the data is duplicated along the cluster and the failure of one node is tolerated. In my scenario I have a 3-node cluster with 34TiB of effecti...

AHV Upgraded to 20170830.395 - Still get Bundle Alert

Hi All An oddity going on here I have upgraded but I still get an alert say the upgrade is available Info : Bundle el6.nutanix.20170830.395 is available for AHV upgrade. My Cluster Version : el7.3-release-euphrates-5.15-stable-4fbdd4d9de331230bb468b3549f530e80ab53bb9 Any ideas how I can correct...

Convert existing Nutanix-VMware Cluster to Nutanix only

Dear all We run 2 Clusters with each 3 ESXi and 2 AHV Storage-only Nodes successfully. Now I want to get rid of VMWare, but all vms were built with vmware, of course I see them in prism. Did anyone ever just deinstall ESXi and replaced it with AHV in a running environment? Alternatively I could...

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