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MohaseenVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

CPU scale up

We want to upgrade the CPU in one node only in 3node cluster. Please guide us, how can we achieve this. Please send step by step instructions.

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StuB
1 year ago
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UNAIWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Role rights to vms group

Good morning, Is there any way to give specific right to a role for group of vms?? Thanks in advance

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mikkisse
2 years ago
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robcarVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Which SNMP OIDs to poll to get useful info from cluster?

Hi,I managed to connect via snmpwalk to a NTNX cluster; but which OIDs do I need to poll to get useful health status information? I don’t want to use traps.Roberto

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JeroenTielen
1 year ago
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SalarkarimiVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Differences in configuring bond via manage_ovs and ovs_vsctl explained

Hi thereI’ve question about difference between configuring bond(port aggregiation) via manage_ovs and ovs_vsctlI wanna to change bond that is in active_backup mode to active_active balance tcpI’ve confused a little bit,what is difference between doing this with manage_ovs and ovs_vsctl

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Sergei Ivanov
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Octavian AndreiWayfarer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Cluster creation problem

Hello,I have 3 nodes from Fujitsu, that are preconfigured with AHV, at discovering with standalone foundation is only see nodes 2 and 3, the same on Foundation Applet.Yesterday the nodes was discoverd corectly untill the cluster formation proccess i had some other problems with the same node (the error was “Critical updating cvm memory and hostname configuration failed. Timeout waiting for the CVM to come up), after i retried the steps at the discovering the nodes step for this node i had the error “This node is not discovering. Retry discovery or convert to manual node” Now i am trying via a Standaloe Fundation that is running on Virtualbox and this node is not discovered.Can you please help me with this problem?Kind regardsOctavian

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2 years ago
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StevedExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Windows 11 Installation config

Looking for anyone that has been successful with installing windows 11 on Nutanix AHV?I have tried, in my VM creation i have selected UEFI and Secure Boot. What I can’t seem to get to is how to enable TPM? When VM boots there is no way to get into bios to enable TPM. So how do you do that?Thanks 

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moju
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
raajiNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

Upgrading Calm VM with Lifecycle Manager at a Dark Site

 By default, Life Cycle Manager (LCM) automatically fetches updates from a pre-configured URL. If LCM fails to access the configured URL to fetch updates, you can configure the LCM to fetch updates locally to upgrade Calm and Epsilon. Perform the following procedure to upgrade Calm and Epsilon at a dark site.Ensure that the LCM version is 2.3 or above.Procedure Set up a local web server that is reachable to your Calm VMs.You will use this server to host the LCM repository.   Use the following steps to set up your LCM repository: From a device that has public Internet access, go to the Nutanix portal and select Downloads > Calm. Next to the LCM Dark Site Calm on ESX Bundle entry, click Download to download the latest LCM framework tar file, lcm_dark_site_bundle_version.tgz. Transfer the framework tar file to your local web server. Extract the framework tar file into the release directory.The following files are extracted into the release directory. master_manif

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
raajiNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

Calm on ESXi Deployment

Calm on ESXi 3 Tier (Calm VM) is a standalone VM that you can deploy on ESXi hypervisors and leverage calm functionality without the Nutanix infrastructure.You can deploy Calm using the image available on the Nutanix Support Portal - Downloads page and start managing your applications across a variety of cloud platforms. This eliminates the need for buying Nutanix infrastructure to use Calm. Supported ESXi versions: 6.0.0 and 6.7 (vCenter version 6.7) Scale-out of Calm VM is not supported. Calm Version is 3.0.0.1. Policy engine enablement is not supported There are two available options. Deploying Calm using vSphere web-client Deploying Calm using vSphere cli.  1. Deploying Calm using vSphere web-client: Log on to the vSphere web client. Click the cluster on which you want to deploy the Calm VM. 3. Click Actions > Deploy OVF Template.The Deploy OVF Template window appears.4. In the Deploy OVF Template window, do the following. Click the Local File option to browse and uplo

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Didi7Trailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Booting from SATA CDROM in AOS 5.15.4 LTS (AVH VM) not possible

Hello everybody,I was unsuccessful to boot from a SATA CDROM in an AHV VM on different Nutanix-cluster with the same AOS 5.15.4 LTS version.Allthough I explicitly selected to boot from the SATA CDROM, the VM says ‘Could not read from cdrom (Code xxx) and instantly jumps into 2048 game (what the heck).As soon as I switch to an IDE CDROM, the system boots properly.Is this a bug in AOS 5.15.4 LTS ?ThanksDidi7

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Sergei Ivanov
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
Abdulrhman
AbdulrhmanTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Warning Message After Upgrading AHV

Could anyone know why I get this WARN after upgrading AHV using LCM:WARN: AHV version 20190916.360 is currently installed on host x.x.x.10, while minimum compatible AHV version is 20201105.2244.Node x.x.x.20 checked compatibility as shown below:AOS: 5.20.2.1Hypervisor: AHVHypervisor Version: AHV-20190916.360There are no compatible version!!!???What make me crazy the cluster still working!!! hey this Nutanix right.What should I do next?Should i leave it like that or try and run LCM again and install compatible version?thank you in advance

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Abdulrhman
2 years ago
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mandgTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Download Prism Central help

I’ve been trying to download the latest version of Prism Central through Prism and consistently fails. I then downloaded the binary and metadata file but they also continue to fail to upload through Prism after various progress. I checked that there’s at least 10GB of  free space in the /home directory - are there any logs that I can look at to troubleshoot further?

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
GaretNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

Nutanix Products and Services Network Port Usage

It can sometimes be confusing as to which network port(s) a Nutanix product or service uses. Also, this information can often be helpful when configuring network security or firewall appliances. For the various Nutanix products and services, a handy list of ports, services, their respective protocols, and a simple description of each can be found in the Port Reference documentation of the Portal. This list is conveniently divided into sections corresponding to each Nutanix product or service. Also, specifically regarding the configuration of network firewalls, a recommendation regarding the specific ports configuration can be found within the Recommendation on Firewall Ports Config knowledge base article.

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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miro_ihdScout
asked in Installation & Configuration

Frame Trial - Sandbox still unavailable after 5 hours

Successfully connected with my GCP account, added drive, configured as persistent, but still can’t launch - the status is UNAVAILABLE for both Sandbox and Utility server.

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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GrandVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

Nutanix CE (latest) installation on Intel NUC Gen6 -- CVM issues

Hi Tried googling but can’t find anything to support me. Model: NUC7i5DNHE2x SSD (500+250GB SSD)1x _16_ gb Cruizer Fit USB AHV installation works and I create 1 signle node cluster., After rebooting I get SSH/Ping acces to AHV and can loginw with root. Problem:CVM does not answer to ping/wev.Tried SSH / Ping from AHV but does not get an answer: [root@NTNX-eXXXXX-A ~]# ping 10.255.1.11PING 10.255.1.11 (10.255.1.11) 56(84) bytes of data.From 10.255.1.10 icmp_seq=1 Destination Host UnreachableFrom 10.255.1.10 icmp_seq=2 Destination Host UnreachableFrom 10.255.1.10 icmp_seq=3 Destination Host Unreachable I’ve tried re-installing multiple times but same issue.Is the problem the 16Gb cruizer fit usb? It’s the bootable media.CVM gets 500gb SSD diskData gets 250Gb disk [root@NTNX-eXXXXX-A ~]# virsh list Id    Name                           State----------------------------------------------------[root@NTNX-eXXXXX~A]#  Tried the logs from other posts but not able to get any outputs. Anyone got

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Owen Reynoolds
2 years ago
SteveCoops
SteveCoopsTrendsetter
asked in Installation & Configuration

Can I view data reduction ratio per vdisk or per VM instead of the whole Storage Container?

At title - I would like to see how a particular VM is performing with dedupe and compression if possible? Cheers,Steve

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SteveCoops
2 years ago
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MilesThompsonAdventurer
asked in Installation & Configuration

NX-1050 Compatibility matrix

Hello, We have an old NX-1050 and I’m wondering what is the recommended AOS, Foundation, ESXi for this? I cannot find this model in the Compatibility Matrix website. Thanks!

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Sergei Ivanov
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
Drakoniss
DrakonissVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

RDP connections get no responsive on Windows Server VM

I installed a new VM with Windows Server 2022 for testing and when I try to connect through RDP it works fine for 10 seconds and then I get a frozen screen and no response. Can you tell why is that?

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Abdulrhman
2 years ago
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Didi7Trailblazer
posted in Installation & Configuration

Application consistent VM snapshots in Windows Client VMs not possible

Hello everybody, I noticed that application consistent VM snapshots of e.g. Windows 10 Pro VMs with NGT enabled and installed in the VM and verified with ‘ncli ngt list’ doesn’t work and results in the following alert… VSS snapshot is not supported for the VM 'TEST-VM', because VSS software is not installed. and … VSS is enabled but VSS software or pre_freeze/post_thaw scripts are not installed on the guest VM(s) TEST-VM protected by TEST-VM. Using a Windows Server 2016 VM with the respective Protection Domain generates application consistent Nutanix VM snapshots. With Windows 10 VMs it won’t work. Verified in 2 different Nutanix clusters. Clusters are equipped with AOS 5.15.4 LTS version. Nowhere I could find a hint, that Windows 10 VMs are not supported. Regards,Didi7 

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D
2 years ago
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Muhammad HaeckalPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration

SFP port cannot be ON

Hi Support,I have connect FO cable from switch to SFP Port in Nutanix, but in SFP led indicator is not ON, can you help ?Thanks.

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Abdulrhman
2 years ago
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Nutanix Employee
Nupur.SakhalkarNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

'Stop Update' feature in LCM

There could be scenarios where LCM (Life Cycle Management) update operation was initiated, and then we need to cancel it in between due to any of the following reasons: 1) LCM operation takes more time than the scheduled maintenance window2) LCM operation was initiated by mistake, and so we want to cancel it soon Starting LCM 2.4.0.3 and later versions, we can now cancel or abort an ongoing LCM update operation using the "Stop Update" feature available on the LCM page via Prism. Whenever this feature is used in LCM, it sets a cancel intent in the Nutanix cluster, which tells LCM to stop the update at the next safe point. The important point is that the update may not be canceled immediately after the cancel intent is invoked since LCM stops it at the next safe point. Hence, we will have to wait until the update reaches the next safe point. This safe point is determined by the LCM framework, which depends on the phase at which the cancel intent was set. Kindly refer to KB-4872 to know m

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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Kishore SalipalliExplorer
asked in Installation & Configuration

Offline foundation applet not detecting nodes (Lenovo)

hi Friends, We have a 3-node Lenovo SR530 with IPMI IPs set. We are trying to install and Setup the Cluster remotely (vpn). Below are the details of IPs,XCC IPs - 172.31.199.x (all 3 nodes of same subnet)AHV IPs - 172.31.199.x (all 3 AHVs IPs of same subnet as XCC)CVM IPs - 192.168.5.x (All CVM IPs with thier default IPs) Problem:I have installed Foundation Applet 5.1 and while running on my laptop, its not able to detect the nodes. Any idea on what to check? The other way suggested in one of the forums was execute the cluster create command in one of CVMs. But all the CVMs have same IPs (192.168.5.2). Should I change the IPs of all CVMs with unique IPs matching with AHV and XCC Subnet IPs and then execute cluster create command? How can I know the CVM IP address from the AHV cliFoundation Applet error messageJava Web Start 11.311.2.11Using JRE version 1.8.0_311-b11 Java HotSpot(TM) Client VMJRE expiration date: 19/2/22 12:00 AMconsole.user.home = C:\Users\KishoreSalipalli-------------

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
ashwin.ramaswamyNutanix Employee
posted in Installation & Configuration

License Manager Guide

Welcome to License ManagerThe Nutanix corporate web site includes up-to-date information about AOS software editions.License Manager provides Licensing as a Service (LaaS) by integrating the Nutanix Support portal Licensing page with licensing management and agent software residing on Prism Element and Prism Central clusters. Unlike previous license schemes and work flows that were dependent on specific Nutanix software releases, License Manager is an independent software service residing in your cluster software. You can update it independently from Nutanix software such as AOS, Prism Central, Nutanix Cluster Check, and so on.License Manager provides these features and benefits. Simplified upgrade path. Upgradeable through Life Cycle Manager (LCM), which enables Nutanix to regularly introduce licensing features, functions, and fixes. Upgrades through LCM help ensure your cluster is running the latest licensing agent logic. Streamlined web console interface for Prism Element and Pris

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ashwin.ramaswamy
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
Cantoris
CantorisVoyager
asked in Installation & Configuration

External Datastores

Hi!We have two Nutanix clusters running ESXi v6.7.0 with a Horizon 7 VDI environment on each.  We needed to be able to sync Horizon AppVolumes between the clusters via some common storage.The solution we were set up with was a FreeNAS VM on one cluster publishing an NFS share which was then attached to the hosts in both clusters.  We weren’t bothered about high availability as it’s not an issue if the replication of the appvolumes goes down sometimes as it’s only needed if appvolumes are being changed or their assignments to users is changing.After an NCC upgrade, Prism Element now flags up this external datastore as unsupported.  I’m struggling to find out from Support what the actual magnitude of risk is here to the stability of the clusters (especially when it comes to upgrading firmwares, AOS etc).Does anyone here have any thoughts on this situation please?Thanks for reading!

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Cantoris
2 years ago
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PeterJPathfinder
asked in Installation & Configuration

VPC and Flow policy

Hi Team,In the latest release notes I see:Flow Security Policies are not supported for VMs that are on advanced networking stack. An alert is raised for VMs that are part of both VPC and Flow policy, and Flow policies are not enforced for VMs on VPCs.Is there a time frame that this will be resolved? Like this VPC is not ‘really usable’. What is the work around to have some sort of micro segmentation inside VPC? Different vlan inside VPC with an 3th party firewall? Thanks and regards,Peter

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1 year ago
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JayakumarTrailblazer
asked in Installation & Configuration

VM disk thin provosioning issue

During VM creation  in nutanix ESXI, if we select the thin provisioning and submit the operation once , it shows thick provisioning if we see the disk settings. what will be the issue ?

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago

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