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afzal.ashrafiWayfarer

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Customized ESXi 6.7 image file for AOS Cluster creation

Anybody has the correct guidance or URL from where i can download the ESXi 6.7 u3 customized image file for Nutanix NX-WDT series node to build the AOS 3 node cluster

vishwajitshahPathfinder

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Need Support for CVM Installation/Configure

We have received a new (Model: NX-TDT-2NL3-G7) 2 set of hardware with ESXI installed and we would like to add into new cluster, hence in the process of preparing foundation, we realized that IPMI IP address is not accessible, no networking issues and it may because CVM is not installed and configured properly and we finding difficulties to prepare these 2 hosts for separate VMware Horizon VDI Cluster. It would be great is any technician can assist us over the online session or step by step instructions would be also helpful.We do have an existing Nutanix Cluster with 7 Hosts, where Existing Nutanix Cluster : AOS version 5.20.3NCC: 4.4.0Foundation: 4.1.1Installed ESXi Host Version : VMware ESXi 6.7.0 build-14320388Please share step by step or instructions and documents how to add the Hosts a and configure.

tony.mcmillanVoyager

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Upgrading Node/Cluster Capcity one Drive at a Time

Hello fellow Nutanix fans,We have a three-node cluster in a DR location. This DR cluster has less capacity than the primary site which has resulted in us exceeding the resilient capacity of the DR cluster.To remedy this situation, we decided to replace four 8TB HDDs with four 12TB HDDs in each node. Today we removed one drive from a node in Prism UI and waited approximately four hours before the system reported it was safe to remove the drive. During this time, Prism reported that data was lowering on the drive. The cluster showed about 700MB/s of throughput during this rebuild, which seems pretty really good for a cluster of this size. We removed the 8TB HDD and inserted the 12TB HDD. The rebuild did not initiate until we ran NCC. By default, NCC runs every 24 hours so, eventually the rebuild would have started but, we wanted to see it get started.We watched the rebuild run for a while after it got underway. The system is writing around 80MB/s to the replacement drive. At this rate (2

TwangyJakePathfinder

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Multiple MAC Addresses per vNIC

Hello!Are about to set up Infoblox (vNIOS) as a HA pair.An Infoblox article says:“When you deploy a vNIOS HA pair, ensure that the port connection allows for more than one MAC address per vNIC. For example, if you deploy a vNIOS HA pair in VMware vSphere, the port-profile to which the vNIOS HA and LAN ports connect should allow for more than one MAC address per vNIC. You can do this by changing the security settings of the port-group to accept "MAC address changes" and "Forged transmits," as illustrated in the following figure.” What about Nutanix AHV regarding the above ?

SquarePathfinder

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iDRAC equivalent for NX nodes?

Hello dear Nutanix community,Just wanted to check, does the IPMI port on NX servers offer a UI for server health monitoring/management and temperature/fan stats like iDRAC for Dell XC servers or HP iLO for HP?Thank you.

Adam_CVoyager

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Removed interfaces from Virtual Switch and No Access to Prism

Hi There,So I made a stupid mistake and removed 2 x eth interfaces from all 3 nodes within the only virtual switch on my cluster. This was within Prism Element. I can still access AHV via IPMI, can no longer access Prism Element. Is there a way to add the eth interfaces back onto the virtual switch via AHV/AOS through the cmdlets?Cheers in advance.Adam

Kyle_WVoyager

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CVM can't ping other hosts in the cluster

I have a 3 node cluster with ESXI 6.7 and AOS 5.15.2. I’m unable to run any LCM tasks as the inventory fails to get the ESXI scratch space on the hosts. After troubleshooting SSH issues, I discovered I’m not able to even ping the other hosts in the cluster, via IP or hostname. I can ping the other CVMs with no issues, just not the hosts. However I’m able to ping each CVM and other hosts with no issue from the host itself, so the issue only exists when the CVM is the source and the other ESXI hosts in the cluster are the destination.I’ve restarted the hosts and CVMs and ensures the hosts are patched and updated. The hosts are all on the same subnet and no firewall exists between them. Any suggestions would be appreciated, thanks!

sdk404Adventurer

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Cannot launch PE from PC after upgrade to 5.20.3.5 LTS?

We’ve noticed that after updating clusters to AOS 5.20.3.5 LTS, we’re unable to launch those clusters from PC. PE seems to still be fine. Anyone run into this?

rockstershinyAdventurer

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Help with setting up a 3-node AHV cluster

Hello dear Nutanix community,A client of my company has purchased 3 HX Lenovo nodes and 2 ToR Cisco switches, each node was equipped with only 2 ports 10GbE (the LOM ones). However, with only 2 ports, I don’t know how to setup the cluster in a way that there is a redundancy. The current rack looks like this without any cabling yet: The IPMI port will go to a Management Switch, so there’s no issue there. But so far, I am confused as to how setup the cabling for the two interfaces; Should eth0 go to a port on SW1 and eth1 go to a port on SW2 for each of the 3 servers? or should both eth0 and eth1 go to the same switch? If I understood correctly the AHV Networking articles in Nutanix, eth0 and eth1 will form a logical bond (br0-up) inside the br0 bridge. And I’m guessing since we only have 2 uplinks per nodes (I’m going for the first scenario):> eth0 will go to SW1Port1 (for example), SW1Port1 will be configured as a Trunk port, for which the CVM/AHV VLAN and User VMs VLANs will be de

bravojVoyager

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CVM became disconnected?

Hello all, It seems that I am having issues with one of my ESXI hosts in my Nutanix. Nutanix G8ESXI 6.7 vSphere 6.7 This is a new set up, so not entirely devastated. Now the reason I believe it became disconnected is because in vSphere I see Network Adapter 1 VM Network (Disconnected). However the other 2 CVM’s are working just fine and are connected. in Prism when I click on the node I do see the host details, but nothing like the name I originally gave it, under the hardware tab and Host NIC’s there's nothing.Under Prism settings > Configure CVM I see 2 of the 3 and of course the one missing is the one I'm having issues with. Now I am able to see open the CVM VM in vSphere and Prism, but here's the other issue. When I set these up I used a password manager and gave all 3 CVM’s the same password, why I bring this up is because the other 2 CVM’s take the password and username, but the bad CVM doesn't. Even the default password for the G8 models doesn't work. So in other words I cann

chenzh4Trailblazer

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Manually Enable RDMA nic in CVM possible?

Is it possible to enable RDMA nic manually in the CVM after manually passthrough the Mellanox network card to CVM in ESXi?It is not enable RDMA during foundation and the cluster is created.After passthrough the NICs to CVM in ESXi, I checked that the NICs are already in the lspci result but can not enable RDMA in Prism.So if it is not possible, that means if the cluster is created without RDMA enabled. there is no way to re-enable RDMA except re-foundation the cluster?

Emerson R. AlmeidaWayfarer

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Error Upgrade Host Firmware In AHV

Operation failed. Reason: Update of failed on 172.16.31.106 (environment phoenix) at stage 1 with error: [Failed to update firmware. Error: Failed to upgrade 3IE3. Information: [cmd: ./mp_64 -d /dev/sdg -c 1 -u -k -r -X 3 -Y 3 -v 0 dir_name: S740305N cwd: /home/nutanix/tmp/lcm_staging/S740305N ldir: ['SYS_S.bin', 'sram.bin', 'mp_64', 'mp_32', 'JMMPTOOL.ini', 'flash.ini'] x: [True, True, True, True, True, True]], Output: [ ************************************************************ * Innodisk MPTool V3.1.0 2020/03/04 * ************************************************************ Model Name : SATADOM-SL 3IE3 V2 Serial Num : B0021805110110184 FW Version : S671115N 1. TH58TFT0DDLBA8H Flash : TH58TFT0DDLBA8H Write code ....... [libjmmp.c][write_code():#2171] erase_flash fail ch : 0 blk : 2 [1;31mFail !! [m[1;31mUpgrade Fail !! [m], Error: [], return code: [4]] Logs have been collected and are available to download on 172.16.31.103 at /home/nutanix/data/log_collector/lcm_logs__172.16.31.103

Dominik.SiedlakAdventurer

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AOS (ESXi) and ROBO licensing model

Dear All,I’ve have a question about a licensing of the AOS (ROBO per per VM).Environment: vSphere7 (vCenter7 + 2-node ESXi clusters). Basically, fresh Nutanix cluster with HA feature enabled is hosting x4 “service” Virtual Machine:* x2 CVMs, x2 vCLS ( https://kb.vmware.com/s/article/80472 )As far I understand CVMs don’t need to be covered by the ROBO license, but what about a vCLS? How AOS is qualifies vCLS: as a service or a “standard” VM?Also, do I need ROBO license for the powered-off VMs?Regards,Dominik

DSAPathfinder

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Can I change AHV and CVM SSH port?

how can i change ssh port??

JayakumarTrailblazer

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Export AHV VM in OVA format

I read that we can able to export the AHV VM in OVA format via Prism central GUI if we have both AOS and Prism central supported version. I need to know is there any way to do the same via PRISM CLI. If so,please share me any link for that. Thanks. -JAI

mwilbergVoyager

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Ubuntu 20.04 Autoinstall - using Cloud-Init Custom Script

So - I have been trying to get some sort of automation of my Ubuntu VM creation in Prism, either by setting up a template machine that I would later modify using cloud-init custom scripts, or even better using a custom cloud-init script at creation to run through the “Ubuntu autoinstall” I have tried a few times now to install an Ubuntu server by clicking my way through the GUI and then using the resulting .yml file to try and install a VM from scratch… Using “clone” from a template I can use a custom script to change hostname and so forth, but still having some problems changing the network settings (saying they are disabled by system.cfg). I guess I will be able to figure that part out eventually, but my main goal is to be able to register a new machine in Netbox, and from the info I have entered there automatically create a cloud-init fileand use that to trigger VM creation in Nutanix… When I try to create a new VM - mounted with the Ubuntu 20.04.4 installer ISO and a 100GB disk -

SiWTrailblazer

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Nutanix LDAP admins

Hi all, I’m trying to create additional admins accounts with LDAP authentication on Nutanix. I’ve got clusters up and running, got LDAP working, and the generic RBAC ‘VM admin/VM read only’ etc accounts (that I’m creating) are all good. But I thought Nutanix had added the ability to create a full cluster admin with AD authentication rather than creating local ones on something like prism central now? Or am I mistaken? (If someone has a way of doing this, it would be much appreciated). Kind Regards,SiW

jfm_esiPathfinder

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AOS 5.20.2 shown, can't upgrade to 5.20.3, says 5.20.3 already there!

Hi,I’m trying to update a Nutanix env, from Prism Element. Using the web, in LCM, I see version 5.20.2 being in there, but when trying to upgrade to 5.20.3, I get the following error:Update of nutanix.nos failed on 192.168.0.2 (environment cvm) at stage 1 with error: [Failed to perform AOS upgrade with error [Preupgrade task [57c7e9a1-ebc9-495d-a848-2ead17251730] failed/aborted with message Version 5.20.3 is same as the current version 5.20.3]]LCM is at 2.4.4.2. NCC check done previously, nothing to report. Here the LCM dashboard. Any ideas on how to resolve this? Thanks a lot in advance. BTQ: I’m working within a lab environment.

Graham_McGuinnessAdventurer

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IPMI address not registering correctly on cluster after changes

Morning,We have a 5 node cluster using the Lenovo HX series hardware (ThinkAgile HX3521-G).We changed our IMPI range after the installation had completed to an out of band IP range that all our IPMI NICs sit on. I made the change in BIOS and then restarted the genesis services on each node via the node CVM.The Genesis restart appeared to be successful.However when I look at the nodes in the hardware section of Prism element the IPMI address is showing up as a a generic self assigned 169.254.x.x address.What would be the best way to address this?Im new to Nutanix so forgive me if I have missed something super obvious...thanks Graham

Graham_McGuinnessAdventurer

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Solved: Error opening .vmx file with ovftools - generic access error (for AHV Migration)

Just in case this helps anyone else- I wasted a lot of time on this one this morning. I appreciate ovftools is a VMWare product...I was trying to convert an exported ovf vm folder to .ova as a single file for import into AHV.I was just getting a generic error- file "" could not be opened:trying to test or verify I got similar:c:\Program Files\VMware\VMware OVF Tool>ovftool --verifyOnly --machineOutput V:\Grid-lic-server\Grid-lic-server.vmxERROR+ <Errors>+ <Error>+ <Type>ovftool.io.file.open</Type>+ <LocalizedMsg>+ Failed to open file: V:\Grid-lic-server\Grid-lic-server.vmx+ </LocalizedMsg>+ <Arg>+ V:\Grid-lic-server\Grid-lic-server.vmx+ </Arg>+ </Error>+ </Errors>RESULT+ ERRORNot very illuminating.I tried setting a log output and for next to nothing useful even in verbose mode:However:When I navigated to the local directory and ran the same export / convert command where the .vmx file was located I got:C:\Program Files\VMwa

aDotWayfarer

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Foundation fails installation process

We got three HPE DL380 Gen9 Server with the HP RAID-Controller H240ar Smart HBA 2-Port SAS 12G on which HBA is enabled.Accordingly to Nutanix this RAID Controller is compatible and should work:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=HPE-Hardware-Firmware-Compatibility:mod-DL380-8-G9-r.htmlDuring the middle half of the installation via Foundation, we get the following error:StandardError: This node is expected to have exactly 1 AHCI controller. But phoenix could not find any such deviceAfter a quick search I saw this KB-Entry:https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000LIWmCAOI also made sure to set the SATA Controller Options again manually and rebootet the server multiple times. Also the boot order is set accordingly to the KB-Entry. But I still get this error and phoenix isn’t able to see any AHCI controller via fdisk -l.Do you have any ideas what else I could try?

jagan_RajaramVoyager

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How to Assign a Static IP for a Cloned VM using API V3?

I am cloning a VM using API V3, by default it was set to DHCP, I want to assign a Static IP via below code, but it is not working. i am not interested to do this Via sysprep file. "override_spec": { "memory_size_mib": 4096, "name": "{{ vm_name }}", "num_sockets": 1, "num_vcpus_per_socket": 2, "num_threads_per_core": 1, "nic_list": [ { "dns_ip_addresses_list": [ "192.168.1.10", "192.168.1.20" ], "nic_type": "NORMAL_NIC", "ip_endpoint_list": [ { "ip": "192.168.1.50", "type": "LEARNED", "prefix_length": 24, "gateway_address_list": [ "192.168.1.1" ], "ip_type": "STATIC" }, "subnet_reference": { "kind": "subnet", "name": "Client01", "uuid": "XXXXX-XXXX-XXXXX-XXXXXXX" },

flhoestTrailblazer

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Need Satadom ...

Dear Community,I have a old NX-1050 still running (lab) and on one of the node, is having issues, the SATADOM boot drive seems faulty. Is there anyone out there who can provide me (donation or I can buy it!) a SATADOM model Innodisk InnoLite SATADOM D150QV-L 64GB Maybe a old cluster decommissioned laying out there ...It will be much appreciated ….Fred.

felipecoraiolaExplorer

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FATAL An exeception was raised: Traceback

Nutanix_1979Voyager

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SnapShot Creation Email

Is it possible for PE or PC to send an email to me when a snapshot is created in the cluster?

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