Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Hello Nutanix Community,I’m reaching out for help after spending a significant amount of time troubleshooting an issue where a Nutanix cluster cannot complete initialization. I would truly appreciate any insight from the community, as I believe I have exhausted all standard troubleshooting paths.This cluster was previously created successfully and had been running in production without issues.However, due to security-related changes in our IT infrastructure, we were required to re-address the entire environment, including: CVM IPs Hypervisor IPs IPMI IPs Because of this requirement, I intentionally chose the cleanest and officially recommended approach, which was: Reclaim licenses Stop the cluster Destroy the cluster Rebuild the cluster from scratch using Nutan

Hi all , Now i am deploying a new nutanix cluster with 10 all flash nodes and each node has 4 ssd disks so during my search in nutanix docs i noticed that nutanix marked up to 4 ssd disks in each node as a metadata disk so in my case it can sign at least 1 ssd disk for metadata and this disk can not be used for regular VMs Data  my question is  one of four ssd disks will be marked as a metadata disk and cannot be used for regular VMs Data ?

Hi All, Regarding restoring Linux IP, it becomes different from the original,I think it's because after the restore, the Mac differently than before,so the settings are different too. Is there a way to make the IP address the same as before after the restore?

Hi All, I would like to ask: If cluster is not joined to Prism Central, will it become lockout to login to the Prism Portal after the license expired. AHV, AOS: 6.10.1.12

Earlier, we tried deploying Prism Central on our newly rebuilt cluster. This isn’t a new Nutanix model—it’s an older one. I wanted to get your insight regarding an error we encountered during the deployment of the instance. We uploaded the tar and metadata, but the deployment consistently stalls at 91%. Previously, deploying through Prism Central was straightforward, so I’m not sure why we can’t access the GUI now.The VM appears to deploy successfully, and I can SSH into it. All services are running fine, NTP is working, but our newly rebuilt DNS might be a major factor in this issue—I’m not entirely sure if this is causing the problem. I forgot to take a screenshot, but the failure showed an “MT timeouts during deployment” or something similar.

Hi everyone,A customer currently operates a VMware vSAN cluster at their primary site and is planning to deploy a new HCI platform at a secondary site. One of the key requirements is that the new HCI cluster must be able to replicate workloads to the existing VMware vSAN environment.My question is the following:Is it feasible to propose Nutanix with AHV for the secondary site while keeping VMware vSAN at the primary site? If yes, which third-party solution would be recommended to ensure reliable replication between Nutanix AHV and VMware vSAN? If not, what alternative HCI architecture would you recommend to meet this requirement? Thanks in advance for your insights and feedback.

Hi All, Good day to you.Recently, I’ve encountered an issue of unable to image the nodes with Foundation for Windows. Only one of the nodes was completed and the rest 2 nodes failed with fatal: waiting for installer to boot up. Can someone suggest me how to solve this issue? AOS: 6.10.1.7AHV: el8.nutanix.20230302.103032 P.S all node have the same hardware specification but the successful node have different BIOS version. Thanks,

HI!Microsoft certificates for Secure Boot expire in June 2026Will AHV, CVM, and VM legacy boot continue to function properly after the certificate expires?Secure Boot expiration will only affect guest VMs using UEFI? 

Hi,This topic has already been discussed several times but no solutions applied (reconnecting, importing the module, prefixing the cmdlets ...).I’ve setup an isolated environment with PowerShell 7.5.4 and the Nutanix Powershell Module 2.1.1.I can connect to Prism Central but any Get-* command will end up with the error :“Object reference not set to an instance of an object”I cannot find a way to get the cmdlets to work.Any idea ?Best regards

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Hello,First post here!I previously developed an automation flow using the Nutanix V3 API that interacts with Prism Central and orchestrates the "Test Failover", "Failover" and "Clean Up" DR Actions for a specified list of Virtual Machines.For the V3 API version, I utilised both the "recovery_plans" and "recovery_plan_jobs" API endpoints.These do not appear to be present within the V4 API (not that I can find in the various V4 API documentation).Are there plans to add these and if so, are there any timescales for when these will be added?Thanks.Regards,Paul 

Hello All, A problem I've come across recently is that 2 nodes in a cluster do not show a bios version in the inventory nor do they recognize that there is an available update for their bios. While another node that is the same hardware does. I’ve follow KB 10833 a bit but i was hesitant to do a reset to default the ipmi just yet. Has anyone faced something similar?     

Hello Everyone,Iam learning NC2 on Azure from couple of months and preparing documents out of my learning, I need assistance in below queries if anyone can assist, would be really great !!! How do we manage Load Balancer Deployment in NC2 on Azure, Do we deploy LB in Hub VNET?  or how it is being deployed. Also How do we manage Firewall in NC2 on Azure.

I want to Install Nutanix on Dell power edge R740xd but i faced lots of error, there log screens show these errors When i Used nutanix foundation for windows the error i faced IPMItools is missing, i tried foundation on virtualbox but still ipmi can,t mount iso file What should I do to run th

Hi.Currently, virtual machine A running on cluster A (consisting of three machines) is being remotely backed up to cluster B (consisting of one machine) using Prism Element's protection domain.In this state, is it possible to remotely back up virtual machine B running on cluster B to cluster A using the protection domain?Is this a problem?kind regards.

Hello, This question came to mind when i was exporting  a VM . Where the OVA file is actually stored?because i didn’t get to choose the storage container where the OVA file will exported to? 

The Challenge: Security Doesn't Travel Well Picture this scenario: You've meticulously crafted security policies protecting your critical three-tier application. Everything is perfectly segmented—web tier locked down, app tier secured, database tier isolated. Then disaster strikes, or you need to perform planned maintenance. You initiate a live migration or failover to your disaster recovery site.Your application arrives safely at the destination. But what about your security?In many environments, security policies don't automatically follow workloads. Security teams are left scrambling to manually recreate policies at the destination, or they rely on custom scripts that must be re-run before each failover event. Even with scripts, there's no real-time verification that VMs remain protected during and a

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Hi guys, i have configured Active Directory As Authentication Method Using LDAPS,When i am testing User accounts from PE , results are success but i cannot log in to PE using AD credentials, “ Server Not Reachable “ , Please Advise if anyone knows whats wrong or how can i fix it, Thanks <33

We have accessed prism element dashboard, but when we click on ‘Register or create new prism central’. We are getting issue to deploy the microservices.   # ncli cluster info    Cluster Id                : 0006451c-8b67-1207-1f32-005056bae2ac::2247859509063770796    Cluster Uuid              : 0006451c-8b67-1207-1f32-005056bae2ac    Cluster Name              : CENUC    Cluster Version           : 6.8.1    Cluster Full Version      : el8.5-release-fraser-6.8.1-stable-a8aad732dfbfaa2b3bcea0b0c27fbd51d8480f4e    External IP address       : 172.29.30.3    Node Count                : 1    Block Count               : 1    Shadow Clones Status      : Enabled    Has Self Encrypting Disk  : no    Cluster Masquerading I... :    Cluster Masqueradin

I am working on setting up DR replication between two 3 node Nutanix clusters running AOS and AHV. Can someone help clarify something for me? It does not appear that you can replicate a PC VM, and the clusters can only be registered to a single PC instance. So:If the cluster hosting the PC VM were to go down, how would you be able to initiate a manual failover with the controlling PC VM also down?Do I need to stand up PC on each cluster and register each to a separate PC instance to avoid this single point of failure?Is bi-directional replication possible with two clusters registered to the same PC? It appears that once a protection policy is setup to replicate from cluster A-->B that A is no longer an option to setup as a replication target from cluster B.

Hi. It appears that you cannot backup PC to an AWS storage gateway, it must be able to reach AWS natively. Is this true? Thank you!

HiI was trying to deploy a single node AHV cluster on a HPE host. As previous task I’ve applied the latest Service Pack for Proliant and I’ve updated the ILO6 to the latest version 1.72 and configure the static network on ILO. Then I uploaded the AOS 7.3.1 and AHV 10.3.1.11 (latest releases) to the Foundation (windows app) and I’ve launched the deployment wizzard.The foundation process started but it crashed at 41% with the following errors: 2025-11-27 13:19:11,970Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(139.128.156.70) @ff10>) @f7c0> from PENDING to RUNNING2025-11-27 13:19:11,974Z imaging_step.py:159 INFO Running <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(139.128.156.70) @ff10>) @f7c0>2025-11-27 13:19:11,978Z cache_manager.py:133 DEBUG Cache MISS: key(common_validations_()_{'global_config': <foundation.config_manager.GlobalConfig object

Hello all, I've come across an issue when attempting to create a VM via Prism central i get a fetch error below. Nonetheless i haven't found much on the issue and am turning to see if anyone has any insight. 

Hi everyoneI have to deploy a Metro Availability architecture for two AHV clusters (no ESXi involved) and I have several questions so I’d appreciate some feedback from those who have deployed similar setups. The main goal is to achieve the lowest possible RPO and RTO between two datacenters with a robust and simple architecture. Both clusters will be separated by about 100m on two separate buildings and they will be connected with FC cables (<5ms).As far as I know, only ESXi with vMSC supports true RTO = 0 However, since this environment is AHV-only, my understanding is that in a failover event the VMs from Site A would need to be powered on in Site B rather than running continuously on both sides... Is that correct?That being said, here you are the possible scenarios to deploy Metro Availability between both sites: Two AHV clusters in