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Nutanix CE 2.0 3-Node Cluster Destroy Stuck

  • January 8, 2025
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Hello everyone, 

I have been trying to deploy Nutanix CE 2.0 in VMware vSphere - I am using 3 VMs and the idea is to make a lab environment to test the services that Nutanix offers. I hit on a rock with the creation of the cluster. First I noticed not enough CPUs were allocated for the CVMs, I now have 4 vCPUs for each CVM, the storage is 64 GB, 200 GB and 500 GB for each VM. My services weren’t coming UP and I got error from Medusa service about a Cassandra failure. I checked that an NTP server problem may be behind this error. I wanted to destroy the cluster in order to start again and add an NTP server to the cluster itself. 

Well, I am stuck now on “Destroy is in progress on the nodes: [cvm1, cvm2, cvm3 ip addresses] for more than 4 hours. I cannot either start the cluster, now that it is in “stopped” state, I cannot cancel the destruction and I cannot create any new clusters… Some services are still staying UP like Zeus, Xmount, Scavenger, but the others are DOWN.

I tried various commands about destroying, status checking, nothing shows anything helpful in my opinion. Any help will be appreciated! Thanks

MK

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JeroenTielen
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  • January 8, 2025

Just reinstall ;) That is the fastest method. 

 

But 4vCPU, 200GB and 500GB is bare minimum. 


@JeroenTielen 
Can’t I somehow stop the destruction or reboot ? I have no problem reinstalling the whole thing, I am just wondering if this is the only option here?

 


JeroenTielen
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  • January 8, 2025

Normally a: cluster destroy would take a couple of minutes. And the neworking must be correct. Rebooting would not help probably.