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Hi!If you have several Virtual machines on an AHV cluster that must be deleted, can you delete  them at the same time from Prism Central or should you remove them one by one from Prism Element?Also, is there any Rest API or PowerCLI to do that process? Thanks

Hi,I want to clone a VM in a isolated network.The isolated network is the same as Production (same IP / same name). There is no communication between production network and isolated network.After the VM is cloned, i start it and i need to execute a script for ajustements.Is it a way by API (prism) or anything else to execute locally a script?Thanks for your help,Matt

Feeling like a real noob today…Error comes back immediately.  I have tried my email address and my NEXT username. I have verified that the CVM can ping the my.nutanix.com.I wanted to try resettting my password on Next but cannot find the link to do that in my user profile.  

Hi ,How do we get the exact BW/network stats for a VM. The entity chart in Analysis created for VM Network RX/TX shows different values for the tap interface on AHV Does the VM Network RX/TX entity chart for VM include the storage traffic towards the hypervisor ? Which is internal and the tap interface traffic is rx/tx towards external ? 

Can we us the metadata usage report by prism central on cluster? Has anyone tried? Or How can I get a similar report? Thank you

Hi, Using REST API 3 ,i want to list vm uuid by providing vm name in search criteria.But i am unable to find any search filter to provide vm name.I am using PUT /vm/list, these are the body model{ "kind": "vm", "sort_attribute": "string", "filter": "string", "length": 0, "sort_order": "string", "offset": 0}Please suggest where to put vm name search criteria.Also, suggest if there is another call for it to list vm uuid by vm name search.

Hello,On ESXi based Hypervisors in a Nutanix cluster, in AOS 5.20.2.1 Prism Element | Analysis has a Metric Chart that can be created for a host:Virtual NIC bytes received rateVirtual NIC bytes transmitted rateVirtual NIC bytes dropped transmitted packetsVirtual NIC bytes received packets dropped Any chance it can be added as a metric chart for hosts running AHV? (perhaps I’m missing something...)I do see it in the Networking Visualization - (just the mini-charts when a host / interface is highlighted). We do have network visualization configured and working. References/notes consulted:https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/network-visualization-and-network-switch-information-37473https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/how-do-i-configure-physical-nic-s-to-appear-on-the-virtual-networks-screen-37946

I am provisioning a Windows clone VM using API, can you help how to inject the sysperp file in vm_customization_config?

I am a part of the Prism Ops product management team, and we are working to greatly expand the actions we offer out of box in X-Play and we need your input on Which actions do you need in X-Play?If you have a few moments, we would really appreciate your feedback on which actions you feel we should add to X-Play!https://forms.gle/iLQGL9GoNrNz5Le3AThe form should only take around 5 minutes to fill out. Your input will help decide which actions we should focus on first. We are running a survey from now until Friday, January 28th at 5PM Pacific Time.For more information on X-Play, check out Laura's recent "Getting Started with Nutanix X-Play" blog https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/01/19/getting-started-with-nutanix-x-play/ 

We are moving from VMware vSphere 6.0 to Nutanix Cluster AHV (Nutanix is our Hypervisor). The question is previously we could select console in VMware and make a 2nd connection to the VM (Server or workstation) with out somebody previously logged i without logging the 1st user off.   Is the Nutanix Console different than the VMware Console?

How to tell if an IP is Prism Central or Prism Element by prism api？

Is Prism supported on all/most current browsers? I have issues with Edge and to some extent IE11. Mostly on an AHV cluster that I am testing on before I migrate my producton to AHV. Typically it is with on the VM page and creating or otherwise managing VM's. Sometimes i have issues with the log in page rendering at all.

Firstly I am new to Nutanix and still have a lot (everything?) to learn on the subject. I have a single Nutanix cluster running AHV and a number of VMs in production, when the cluster was setup (by a contractor) a Prism Central trial was also setup. To be honest, with a single cluster I have not found any real need to Central so now the trial is up I was wanting to decommission it.The PC VM is also being reported as a ‘bully’ in the cluster so another reason to get rid. Obviously I could just switch it off, but I’m sure that there is more to it than that to safely and cleanly remove the PC instance. Considering my newbie status does anyone have any specific articles they know of, or even better some instructions I can follow to safely and cleanly remove PC from the environment please?

I am upading VM through restAPI, VM  is getting updated but after showing warning on VM grid as below. Request: Method: Put{    "spec": {        "name": "Mahesh-Win7-Flow-0002",        "resources": {            "power_state": "ON",            "hardware_clock_timezone": "Asia/Calcutta"        }    },    "metadata": {        "kind": "vm",        "categories_mapping": {            "Environment": [                "Production",                "Testing"            ],            "Team": [                "Dev-Junior"            ],            "Department": [                "Dev"            ]        },        "categories": {            "Environment": "Production",            "Team": "Dev-Junior",            "Department": "Dev"        },        "use_categories_mapping": true,        "entity_version": "",        "spec_version": 20,        "spec_hash": ""    }}Response : "status": { "name": "Mahesh-Win7-Flow-0002", "state": "ERROR", "execution_context": { "task_uuid": [ "7c606

Has any one upgraded Prism Central to 2021.9.0.3 yet? If so how did it go? Any problems or gotchas thus far?

Hi,Recently we updated our 2 clusters to latest firmware and software, as indicated by the LCM inventory check. All running well and up-to-dated. But after a feel day we realize some issues:The data protection was not working, all VM loses they category In one cluster try to start a lot of tasks for removing stretch for the entities VMs, and always fail and starts again. The web console became very slowly. All NGTs present as need to upgrade or not installed, when we tried to re-install the issue was could not mount the NGT. In some ones we could goes in the OS, eject the unity and re-install it, but others no. Some VMs starts to present issues like freeze, and when we tried to restart (either by the OS or the web console command) they crash.Because of this we tried to shutdown entirely one cluster, that no have any VM, when we do this the CVM and PE VM start normally, but the PC VM no. When we try to start it by the PE web console the result was that there is no enough resources avail

Hi!I want to use the Prism Central API to create and connect a vdsik to a VM. The only examples and topics I’ve seen for creating and attaching vdisks uses the Prism Element API, i.e. using a specific CVM as the endpoint.I don’t want to use a specific CVM as this is to be an orchestrated task triggered by our ITSM system. We can’t rely on a specific CVM to be available and would much rather use Prism Central.However, I can’t find any API calls that seem to be able to create and attach a vdisk. Maybe the PUT /vms/{uuid} call is capable of this but I can’t see any mention of this in the documentation.Is there a way to do this with Prism Central?

This was answered 3 years ago and it was being “looked into”  was anything created to be able to export Configuration from Prism Central? Where it was answered 3 years ago:https://next.nutanix.com/prism-infrastructure-management-26/export-import-backup-prism-central-element-configuration-17740   Thank you

In Prism Central, only the "VMs Disk Usage" field is output as "No data available". Is there a solution or issue? Version pc.2021.9.0.2Version 5.15.7 LTS   

Hi Guys,I’m trying to enable client authentication through certificate on Prism Element (CE Edition), in order to establish a 2 ways authentication (Client -> Server and Server -> Client). I followed the documentation related to this configuration. https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Security-Guide-v6_0:mul-security-authentication-client-pc-t.htmlLet me sum up my current configuration:Prism element WebUI has a certificate delivered by a local CA.    Under the menu Authentication > Client , I’ve enabled “Client Chain Certificate” and “Enable Client Authentication”. The chain contains ( root CA + client certificate ). The client certificate, is a “Client Certificate” that support authentication, the common name is set and subjAltName also ( CN = UPN = client@domain.local ) When I try to query the api, I get this error message:{"message":"An Authentication object was not found in the SecurityContext"}It seems that Prism doesn’t see the client certi

Hi,Anyone using flow microsegmentation?The security policy does not display the traffic after the setup.Created categories Assign vmTag policy Place under monitoring  No results on the isolation traffic shown.

Hi,I changed the hostname of my AHV hosts… In PE, it is all well displayed… However, in Prism Central on the properties of the VM, the old name is still displayed. How to correct this? Regards,Bart

It seems that when updating AOS Nutanix is creating backups of /home/apache/www/ called PrismUI.tar.gz . Those are then stored in /home/apache/www/console/ . It further seems they tried (but failed) to exclude this console directory. (Don't have the exact tar command line any more but I guess Nutanix can find it) This means that later backups include all previous ones, recursively. I.e. backup #1 is OK. But backup #2 will include #1. Backup #3 will even include #1 and #2 (including another copy of #1). And so on. Which means the file size of subsequent backups grows FAST. For one Cluster the file grew from the usual ~125 MB to over 3GB. This in turn leads to the backup being rejected and recreated constantly. Probably bad for the SSDs.This happened on all Versions I was able to check: ESXi: 5.20.1.1, 5.20.2 AHV: 5.18.1.2 5.19.0.5 6.0.1 6.0.1.6 6.0.1.7 6.0.2Here the most egregious example:$ sudo find / /home/ -xdev -iname PrismUI.tar.gz | xargs -d'\n' ls -lah-rwxr-x---. 1 nutanix apache

In my PrismCentral, I am trying to label my VMs so that I can filter on them.   When I try to label the VM, it doesn’t work.  I can create the Labels and I can tag the VM with it but it’s as if the label is not applied to the VM. Is there a nCLI command that I can use to assign an existing label to a VM?

I have an error trying to launch the console from a Linux VM. This VM migrated from a Hyper-V cluster to an AHV cluster through Move. I have correctly configured DNS. The VM is on, I can access via SSH.Could you tell me what else I can verify before opening a case for this issue.PS: I can launch the console of a VM created in the AHV cluster.