Hi all,

First time posting, a little background on me and my environment. I am a VCP and have been doing VMware virtualization for the last 20 years. I have 2 Nutanix blocks at home loaded with 3060-G7’s. It’s a pretty nice setup (It went out of warranty, so was given to me to take home, so pretty lucky there.) So I got it all loaded up with community edition and everything was running smooth. I bought a new Uni-Fi 10gb switch for home, as well as a plethora of other unifi products. Here is where I fouled up big time:

I set up link aggregation Active-Active on my only vswitch. After changing it, I realized I didn’t have any SFP’s for my switch. So I connected them to my UDM-SE. I assumed my UDM-SE supported LACP, but it did not and it threw my entire network into a frenzy. I eventually figured out that having the blades plugged into my UDM-SE, with LACP enabled, was causing a lot of routing confusion (which took my own home network offline for sometime). 

Next bad decision, I deleted the vSwitch via OVS tools. Then re-created it, added my links, but the br0 switch shows as down. Following an AI prompt, that was quite usefully, I deleted the OVS entirely from my CVM (or host.. can’t recall), at which point I thought I could re-install it. That wasn’t the case. Long story short, 1 of my 3 CVM’s is down, network related. My other two CVM’s I can ping and SSH to, but I cannot use the web GUI because, well I assume, because not all the services are up. When I check cluster health/cluster status, the two CVM’s seem fine and the 3rd shows down. I’m at a crossroads, should I attempt to use the ISO to repair the CVM? Should I attempt to rebuild the host? I have about 8TB of data I don’t want to lose, I had a failover of 1 node. So I hope to retain the data… any help would be great. I do realize that was very much self inflicted. But hey, i’m learning a ton about Nutanix!! Loving the product.