Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2)

NC2 on Azure Deployment Pre-requisites-Hello Everyone,I started Nutanix Learning 2 months back and there are few questions which I am unable to find answers for, it would be great to hear from you guys, below are the questions I have-What kind of subscription one should have to create NC2 on AzureWhat kind of access (Owner/contributor) we should have Any reserved Network segment/IPs to deploy NC2 on Azure Minimum and maximum nodes we can create within a cluster or a single NC2 on Azure private cloud. Pre-requisites to deploy Nutanix MOVE

Hi NEXT Community,We're excited to announce Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2) on OVHcloud!A Sovereign European Cloud OptionFor many of our customers, especially those in Europe, data sovereignty is a top priority. With this new offering, you can run your workloads in OVHcloud's European-owned and operated datacenters. This provides a clear path to ensuring your data and operations can remain under European jurisdiction, helping you address compliance requirements and avoid exposure to extraterritorial laws.Key Use Cases UnlockedBy extending your Nutanix environment to OVHcloud, you can treat the cloud as a seamless extension of your on-premises datacenters. This makes several key operations much simpler:Application Migration: Lift and shift applications and workloads to the cloud without the time, cost, and complexity of re-architecting or refactoring them. Disaster Recovery (DR): Easily build out a DR site in the cloud, using a predictable, cost-effective economic model that helps you avoi

 Hello everyone,I am new to Nutanix and I have an on-premises cluster with multiple VLANs configured in Prism Central. My VMs are currently placed inside these VLANs.I am planning to migrate everything to a new NC2 cluster on Azure, but I need to keep the same VM IP addresses.I have a few questions regarding this scenario: Is it possible to maintain the same VM IPs when migrating to NC2 on Azure? Are there any prerequisites on the on-premises Nutanix cluster to make this possible? What if the on-prem VLAN is also used by other physical servers outside of Nutanix? How would these physical servers communicate with VMs in NC2 on Azure? How can native Azure components or other third-party networks connected to my Azure environment reach the servers in this stretched network? For example, if I have some VMs on-prem, some on NC2, and some on other physical on-prem servers. Is this configuration intended as a temporary transition, or can it be permanent? Regarding traffic from a physi

Hi All,I have been trying to setup a NC2 using AWS. The setup went through fine as shown below screenshot from the prism page:Problem i see now is, the VM created (Ubuntu and Win10) are not been able to connect to internet for any updates or downloads (mirror urls). Also, we are not able to do ssh on those machines.Any help is appreciated.

Hi everyone, I have run into the issue described in the KB-18070, Case 2: CRITICAL memory_model_manager.py:83 X == 1 failed, after the power outage. Description and symptoms fits and I confirmed it in the logs. Problem is, that solution is to upgrade to next version and contact support for the recovery of the impacted cluster. Upgrade is not possible and its CE so support is also not an option. I was wondering if someone have similar issue or might have a clue hwo to move forward, as I would like to avoid nuking the whole cluster.  Any advice or help would be appreciated.

I noticed that Nutanix REST API v3 offer ability to interact with Nutanix Projects. The same features seem not to be available using the new API v4 so far. Will this come in the future? Is there a roadmap with all the features that will be coming in API v4?

how do we go about giving VM’s in our NC2 cluster running in azure pubic IP address? We have a number of VM’s that we need to build that will either require a public IP or be publicly accessible via LB’s running on the cluster (Not native AOS LB’s)  how do we assign a public IP from the Azure public IP address ranges to our VM’s running on NC2?

Hi,Use Case: I have a POC account on which I want to launch a NC2 cluster using my Azure account.Problem Statement: I am able to create an azure cloud account successfully but when I try to create a cluster, it does not let me use my azure account and depicts that my aws trial account is still active. Question: How can I activate Azure trial license in my POC account? Can I use my azure trial license if I have already used AWS trial?

I checked the log rotation interval for CVM and Prism Central in the manual, but I couldn't find any information.With the default settings, how often are logs rotated, and how many generations of data are retained?

We are excited to announce a new feature that allows you to configure the User VM (UVM) as the default gateway for NC2 on AWS subnets. This eliminates the need for an EC2 instance to perform the gateway function, allowing you to use the existing bare-metal that you're already paying for with NC2. It also provides better security by forcing traffic to the gateway device without needing to change the local gateway on guest devices. This means there is no way to circumvent the firewall/gateway device.The AWS Gateway implementation doesn't allow for just adding an NC2 VM as a gateway and carrying on. By default, the AWS gateway is .1 for each subnet, and routing changes require an AWS resource to configure routing. For example, using an EC2 instance, you would have to add AWS ENIs to your firewall/VPN to edit any traffic flows. You can see this in step 3 of this guide by Palo Alto.With this new feature, a Nutanix Cluster can assign an AWS ENI to the NIC of an NC2 VM. In my example, I am go

Nutanix introduces the Multicloud Snapshot Technology (MST) Disaster Recovery (DR) with Zero Compute Deployment as a cost-effective approach to disaster recovery. This solution leverages AWS S3 buckets or Nutanix Objects for storing snapshots, enabling organizations to replicate data from on-premises clusters to low-cost object storage. In the event of a disaster, an on-demand Nutanix cluster can be deployed in AWS or on-premises for recovery, ensuring minimal downtime and reduced operational costs. This article focuses on the MST DR with Zero Compute Deployment feature, its benefits, and how to configure it using a limited access policy for an S3 bucket named zerocompute. Key Features of MST DR with Zero Compute Deployment Cost-Effective Storage: Snapshots are replicated directly to AWS S3 or Nutanix Objects, eliminating the need for perpetual compute nodes. This reduces the total cost of ownership (TCO) by leveraging low-cost object storage. On-Demand Cluster Deployment: In the eve

Our company is just starting on on our Nutanix journey, we are currently deployed in NC2 and have setup Oracle 8.9 VMs on AHV.  We have setup the Entra ID integration to the Nutanix Console, but we were looking to setup user authentication to log in to the local Oracle Linux 8.9 servers, but have not been able to find a runbook on how to do this if it is possible.  Can you integrate Azure Entra ID with a AHV VM that is running on NC2? The bare metal is running in EastUS.  Any assistance or direction would be greatly appreciated. 

Hi everyone, I have an NX-3460-G6 that was turned off yesterday by accidentally unplugging the power cables. I tried to turn it back on, but the power supplies (PSU) have green LEDs flashing (the other LED is off). Now from the documentation I see that it could be one of two causes: 1) "When AC is present only: 12VSB on (PS off) of PS in sleep state (the LED should flash at i Hz). 2) Power supply firmware updating mode (the LED should flash at 2 Hz).

Hi Team,           I need clarifications on  the below two points. If there is a requirement to create storage container capacity usable space as 1TB, which means is to  create 2TB as the advertised capacity in Rf2 based container? If I create 100GB disk in RF2 container, the unique data  is only 50 GB ? What are the on-prem requirements to build NC2 on azure ?

the druva backup tool will do a backup of ahv vms into their cloud storage.  but they dont yet convert them into an ec2 instance for a DR solution.  trying to find a way get a DR type result.

Hi Team I was looking for Nutanix on Azure solution for one of my customers and came across the Azure bare metal cost, I cannot see the Nutanix SKU on the Azure calculator and I want to capture the price for that with and without reservation. AN36P Config: 36 cores, 768 GiB Memory, 1.5 TB low-latency NVMe SSD, 19.2 TB NVMe SSD * is this cost managed and paid directly to Microsoft or through Nutanix ?

Hi Team,We are trying to migrate the Nutanix VMs to GCP cloud. We came to know about the SureEdge tool supported by Nutanix. Currently, We are using community edition of Nutanix, can we get trial version of SureEdge  tool to test the migration of VMs. If there are any other tools supported, Please let us know. 

The last comment was that the support for vSphere 8 would be released in the next upgrade and that was four months ago. Can we get an update? We are telling customers they can’t migrate to 8 which is causing customers to look at other directions.

Hi. Is ESXi v8 supported yet?

Prism Central in Azure provides the control plane for Flow Virtual Networking. The subnet for Prism Central is delegated to Microsoft.BareMetal/AzureHostedService, so you can use native Azure networking to distribute IP addresses for Prism Central.Once you deploy Prism Central, the Flow Virtual Networking Gateway (FGW) VM deploys into the same VNet that Prism Central uses. The FGW allows communication between the guest VMs using the VPCs and the native Azure services. Using the FGW, guest VMs have parity with native Azure VMs for elements such as:User-defined routes: You can create custom or user-defined (static) routes in Azure to override Azure’s default system routes or to add routes to a subnet’s route table. In Azure, you create a route table, then associate the route table to zero or more virtual network subnets. Load balancer deployment: You can balance services offered by guest VMs with the Azure-native load balancer. Network security groups: You can write stateful firewall pol

Flow Virtual Networking Gateway VM High Availability When you initially deploy your first cluster, you can create two to four FGW VMs vs only one prior. The resiliency change is a big deal but getting traffic in and out of the cluster became a lot easier for Azure/Nutanix admins. The addition of the Azure Route servers along with the deployment of BGP VMS means that User Defined routes don’t need to be created. Anytime manual operations can be removed from a design, it means a win for the customer.Prior to AOS 6.7, if you deployed only one gateway VM, the NC2 portal redeployed a new FGW VM with an identical configuration when it detected that the original VM was down. Because this process invoked various Azure APIs, it took about 5 minutes before the new FGW VM was ready to forward traffic, which affected the north-south traffic flow.To reduce this downtime, NC2 on Azure uses an active-active configuration. This setup provides a flexible scale-out configuration when you need more traff

AOS 6.7 has added more options for securing your cluster in AWS. We will take a look at the existing options and dive into the new feaure in AOS 6.7.You can use AWS security groups and network access control lists to secure your cluster relative to other AWS or on-premises resources. Nutanix automatically creates three security groups to limit traffic to the cluster:Internal management: Allows all internal traffic between all CVMs and all AHV hosts (EC2 bare-metal hosts). Don’t edit this group without approval from Nutanix Support. User management: Allows users to access Prism Element and some other services running on the CVM. UVM: Allows UVMs to talk to each other. By default, all UVMs on all subnets can talk to each other, but you can edit the policy to lock down more traffic. You could alternatively use Flow Network Security to prevent east-west traffic.  With AWS security groups, you can limit access to the AWS CVMs, AHV host, and UVMs only from your on-premises management network

We are experiencing issues with the "ncc health_checks run_all" command on the Nutanix CVM machine, both from Putty and the web console. The checks are failing or aborting after waiting for more than 30 minutes. Your assistance in resolving this matter would be greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Hybrid Cloud extended network between Azure and private datacenterThis is just one possible scenario that you could use create a Layer 2 stretch network in your hybrid cloud environment. The goal is to understand this scenario and to have a place to ask questions. The plan is to introduce additional scenarios to drive understanding. This scenario is using AOS 6.6. The scenario will mostly likely change with newer AOS releases. We have an Azure environment on the top the below diagram and private datacenter below the Azure environment.  We want to understand what happens if the VMs running on Nutanix in Azure failback/migration to the private datacenter while using layer 2 stretch. After the failover, how will the native Azure VMs in Step 4 reach the VMs that failed/migrated. The VMs running the NC2 cluster in Azure are using a routed path to get access. The means we have ability to route on-prem an native Azures services to the VMs running on the NC2 cluster. Step 1 – L2We have a setup

We are team of developers working on the hosting platform based on the nutanix cluster  and getting issue with the enable console on new VM without disclosing cluster credentials ?