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M4ttScout
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Safely decommissioning Prism Central

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?

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1 year ago
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MaheshNikamPathfinder
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While updating VM Categories, Asking for clear status on VM grid

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

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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woohhaaWayfarer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Prism Central PC.2021.9.0.3 Update

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

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1 year ago
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PlinioMarcosPathfinder
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Issue after updating software and firmware

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

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Martin EdeliusTrendsetter
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Can I create and attach a vdisk to a VM via Prism Central API?

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?

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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Enterprise ComputeWayfarer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Prism Central Backup/Restore Configuration

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

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1 year ago
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hyoung hoAdventurer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

"VMs Disk Usage" in Prism Central "No data available"

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   

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1 year ago
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RomainBeeScout
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Enabling Client Authentication with Certifiate

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

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1 year ago
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andylimAdventurer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

prism central flow security policy no results display

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.

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bbbburns
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
BartDonders
BartDondersTrailblazer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

AHV hostname change not reflected in some part of PC

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

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BartDonders
1 year ago
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tschmidtVoyager
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

When creating PrismUI.tar.gz the exclude ain't working

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

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1 year ago
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kentWayfarer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

PrismCentral - How to label VMs using nCLI?

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?

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1 year ago
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joseparedespyExplorer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Unable to launch VM console from Prism Element

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. 

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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hyoung hoAdventurer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Can not disk usage display in Prism Central

In Prism Central, the resource usage of VMs in the cluster is displayed, but the disk usage is not. I think is that the disk usage may be display after a few moment of time has passed. Is it normal if the resource utilization of all VMs should be displayed immediately? Or how long does it take to display?For example, is there a document saying "In Prism Central, the CPU and MEM usage of the VM are output immediately, but in the case of disk usage, it takes some time to be output"? In the current Prism Element, the resource usage of VMs is immediately reflected. All resource usage rates such as CUP, MEM, and DISK are output.However, in Prism Central, just disk usage rate cannot be display.  

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1 year ago
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skeeterTrailblazer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Powershell v2 create UEFI VM

Hello, I am trying to create a vm that will use UEFI and Secure boot with the new powershell cmdlets. With the version 1 cmdlets this was not possible. Does anyone know if this is possible with V2 or are we still required to use the API along with the powershell cmdlets?

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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CraigAlexanderVoyager
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Using powershell to query Prism

I have started trying to use powershell 7 to perform queries against Prism Central.I have been able to install powershell 7 as well as install the nutanix.cli moduleI am able to establish a connection to a prism central instance.Server                : server.domain.netVersion               : pc.2020.9.0.1UserName              : account@domainAcceptInvalidSSLCerts : TrueForcedConnection      : False However when I try some basic commands such as get-cluster and get-vm I get the error“Get-Cluster: Object reference not set to an instance of an object.” If someone has an example of a script that works in there environment they can share I can see if I am doing something wrong.

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1 year ago
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Ismael kouassiScout
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Memory and RAM performance analysis

How to analyze the ram and cpu occupation of a virtual machine on NUTANIX over a period.

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JeroenTielen
1 year ago
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PascalMVoyager
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

How assign a category to a vm within REST API Prism Central

HelloI would like to use REST API within Prism Central to assign a category to a VM.I dont know how to do thatDo I need to use this API - “Update an existing VM” (put /vms/{uuid})or this API- “Create or Update a category value” (put /categories/{name}/{value})And how can I use it to assign a new category and not remove previous category ?RegardsPascal   

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JoseNutanix
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
Dominix_pf
Dominix_pfTrailblazer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Nutanix console has no non-english keyboard layout

Hi everyone,WEe are in AOS 5.20 (up to date) and because there is a problem, I need to configure some VM that are set with non english keyboard layout through the nutanix console, bu I can’t. it seems console only know english layout. Is there any to use non-english layout ?or should I fill a bug/feature request ?

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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MMASLOUHAdventurer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Avoiding disk over-provisioning in AHV

Hi, I know in last few days that by default, storage in AHV is thinly provisioned. So, im asking if there is a way to avoid disk over-provisioning ? 

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Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
Alona
Nutanix Employee
AlonaNutanix Employee
posted in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Prism Central (PC) VM is running out of space

Similarly to a CVM, Prism Central VM can run out of space.There are three main contributors:localhost_access_log.txt not being rotated properly Nutanix Insights collector log file have consumed more disk space than expected on Prism Central and Controller VMs multiple Nutanix Guest Tool installers are stored in the home directory of Prism CentralWhile the engineering team is working on improving the product behaviour, there are some things you can do about preventing a PC failure:Log in to the PC VM. Navigate to the /home partition List the contents of the directory by size and look for any large unused files that can be deleted.Some common sub-directories under /home where large files are likely to be found. Files in these locations can be deleted to free up space.   Delete the files in the folder but NOT the folder itself./home/nutanix/software_downloads/ - Delete any old versions other than the versions you are currently upgrading /home/nutanix/software_uncompressed/ - Delete any ol

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1 year ago
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CharuTrailblazer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Playbook Parameters : Created VM

We created a playbook to send email whenever a New VM got created in Nutanix AHV cluster. How can we add User Name and Cluster Name in Email Message? There is not much benefit if,  such details can not be provided,Event:Action: 

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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mpitogoScout
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

New IDP Enter Configuration Manually missing

New IDP Enter Configuration Manually missing.It seems we are no longer able to edit or manually configure an IDP.  Has anyone come across this with newer versions of Prism Central? 

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago
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ruebenmasterVoyager
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Can't upload an iso file with PRISM centrtal

Hallo people, i'm new here and new in the theme nutanix ce. We have three servers in a cluster. All the systems are ok. I mean it is the version PRISM central 5.6 but i'm not sure, because i don't find the version number on dashboard... Now i want to upload an iso image from my workstation to nutanix ce. But something goes wrong and the nutanix tell me this: openSUSE-Leap-15.0-NET-x86_64.iso: { "api_version": "3.1", "code": 500, "message_list": [ { "message": "Internal Server Error. Failed to stream image: {\n \"api_version\": \"3.1\",\n \"code\": 500,\n \"message_list\": [\n {\n \"message\": \"Internal Server Error. No storage container found\",\n \"reason\": \"INTERNAL_ERROR\"\n }\n ],\n \"state\": \"ERROR\"\n}", "reason": "INTERNAL_ERROR" } ], "state": "ERROR" } I don't know how to assign a storage container for uploading... Anybody a tipp for me? Thank you Greetings Stephan

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1 year ago
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KristenWayfarer
asked in NCM Intelligent Operations (formerly Prism Pro/Ultimate)

Can user access be restricted to specific clusters when navigating from Prism Central

We have set up the connection to our Active Directory for authenticating in Prism Central. We have several clusters connected to our Prism Central. We have a scenario we are wondering about. Is it possible to restrict user access to only specific clusters in Prism Central? For example, I have user 1 and user 2 with clusters A, B, C and D in Prism Central. I want user 1 to be able to manage clusters A and C from Prism Central but want to continue to allow user 2 to be able to manage all of the clusters in Prism Central. We would want to allow user A to work with VMs only on clusters A and C and prevent access to VMs on clusters B and D. Is this possible? Currently the users in our "user 1 role" access the individual Prism Elements for the specific clusters, but we want to be able to allow our "user 1" to have a single point of access for each cluster they are meant to manage without granting them access to the other clusters in Prism Central.

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
1 year ago

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