Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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?

I am considering building a cluster that will use a mix of TLC and QLC NVMe SSDs. I assume that Nutanix will put all of these drives into the SSD-PCIe storage tier and every disk will be a member of the same tier. Since QLC SSDs have lower performance and lower write endurance than their TLC, MLC, and SLC counterparts, it would be advantageous to use storage tiering to encourage cold data to reside on the QLC media and hotter data to reside on the more performant drives. Is there a supported method for this in non-community edition clusters? It would be relatively straightforward to manually change the tier-name for the QLC drives to SSD-SATA, but is that a supported practice?

Hi everyone,anyone face issue, when they run nutanix collector to gather data of PC or PE, but when we open the excel file. we got required data except VM IP details.can anyone resolve this or have any solution to this. without VM IP details, collector is not worth. Please share thought about it.

If I have two AHV clusters distributed across a primary site and a disaster recovery (DR) site, and I configure Metro Availability between them, is it possible to deploy the Witness VM at the DR site?

I have 2 AHV clusters (3 nodes), and if I want to configure synchronous replication between them, I have two options: Sync Replication and Metro Availability. I would like to understand the key differences between these two approaches and the specific features. Note that I will not use a Witness VM.

I have 4 x dell m540 blade servers, running in a VRTX chassis, and would like to install nutanix, I have tried the latest edition and it bombs out with fatal errors before I even get to the installer, does anyone have the legacy isos so I can try this or any ideas why ?, I have even disabled the shared storage and it still bombs out 

I'm Korean. English can be a little awkward. I created a communication edition on my virtual device and accessed Prism. But the next day, I deleted the virtual device and tried to access Prism by creating another virtual device again, but I couldn't connect.

Hello, I'm not able to deploy prism central. I have this error: Encountered Exception in post_deployment step: Failed to enable micro services infrastructure on PC: Failed to deploy base service: Max retries done Kind regards

Hello, I'm not able to deploy prism central. I have this error: Encountered Exception in post_deployment step: Failed to enable micro services infrastructure on PC: Failed to deploy base service: Max retries doneand on log file deployment in the pc.[ERROR] [20250305 04:30:19.110551] [623473] [utils.go:192](GetServiceIPAndPortUsingMSPServiceDiscovery) error retrieving ergon task status for PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment with the error error retrieving task list payload for component type [infra] and operation type [PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment] [ERROR] [20250305 04:30:19.110568] [623473] [svcmgr_configure.go:51](Configure) error retrieving task list payload for component type [infra] and operation type [PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment] [ERROR] [20250305 04:30:19.110599] [623473] [main.go:59](main) error retrieving task list payload for component type [infra] and operation type [PC Microservice Infrastructure Deployment] [INFO ] [20250305 04:30:20.458489

Hey Nutants, Iam back with the complicated question once again, iam sure this is not straight forward question and not easy to resolve without support, however let me see if I can get any support from this panel.I have started a migration of a vms through a AsyncPD as my AOS version is 6.5.5.5 and cannot do a cross cluster vm migration to with out a PD, this PD has completed its replication 98% and got stuck for 24 hours now.I have attempted multiple times to abort the migration but with no success, please see the screenshot below.Note: I dont want to complete the migration anymore.Followed below links already.https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA0320000004H2XCAUhttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA0600000008eOHCAYkindly dont tell me to contact Nutanix support as I dont have an active license. :) Thanks in advance. 

Hello everyone, I am trying to deploy VMs from a template by using terraform ( nutanix_deploy_templates_v2 ). I have located the UUID of the template i want to use and terraform plan works with no issues. When I go to apply the changes it errors telling me the template is not located on that server. I have quadruple checked the addresses etc and even had it peer checked so we are happy with the code. Has anyone else experienced this or am I just being dumb?Any help would be appreciated - cheers

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

Issue: I can’t get UEFI to work with VMs at all.CE version of AHV  on Dell 4 year old hardware - AHV and CVM operational and appear fine.VMs appear to be OK as long as it’s using legacy bios. I can’t get UEFI to boot, black screen of X/f2.I was going to attempt a workaround: Install using legacy and convert to UEFI but I can’t get into the VM bios?  Tried F2, DEL, F12 … every F out there and it goes straight to windows.Does anyone have a recommendation? I can take screenshots if that helps 

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

Node expantion with NVMe drives and newer AOS/AHV on the new node? What is the file to update that updates the cluster to recognize the new hardware models. Bascially having to downgrade a factory G9 node on an older cluster. When you run foundation it doesn’t recognize the newer hardware and errors out.

Hello, I have a question about the functionality of VM replication between two clusters (Nutanix metro).I would like to know if my virtual machines defined on the main cluster can start identically on the backup cluster in the event of an incident. In fact, my question is more focused on the software and OS licenses that are implemented on the VMs. That is, are the licenses also replicated, or does it depend on the type of license?Best regards, 

Hello Dears , I want to install nutanix on lenovo HX650 V3 storage IS , i am not sure that the hardware is preinstalled image or not .how can i know the servers that will came preinstalled or not ?can you explain the best way to foundation on lenovo servers ? 

We have upgrade a old cluster from AHV 6.5.6.6 to 6.5.6.7 but one node are’nt upgrade. And I can perfom the upgrade by web. Is it possible to upgrade one node by cli ? Moreover can upgrade to the ahv 7 ? Kind regards

Hi All,   I would like to setup trial version/community edition of Nutanix virtualization environment. Once we tested fine, we will approach sales team for further movementI have observed the below link. But it was 4 years old one. Download Community Edition | Nutanix Community  If i download the iso from above mentioned link, will it be possible for me to setup the AHV virtualization environment?

Created User in Prism element .Tried Logging in getting error ( The username or password you entered is incorrect. Please try again.) we tried with standrad command ncli user reset-password user-name=xxxxx password=yyyyy still we could not able to change as well not able to login. please let us know solution thanks for the support 

AHV installation is failing for Cisco C m6sx server , failing at 71% percentage  log is below 2025-02-24 12:05:58,524Z imaging_step.py:164 ERROR Exception in running <InstallHypervisorKVM(<NodeConfig(10.96.96.111) @9e80>) @8970>Traceback (most recent call last):  File "foundation/imaging_step.py", line 160, in _run  File "foundation/imaging_step_hypervisor.py", line 53, in run  File "foundation/imaging_step.py", line 346, in wait_for_event  File "foundation/config_manager.py", line 351, in wait_for_eventfoundation.config_manager.EventTimeoutException: Timeout (900s) in waiting for events ['Installing AHV', 'fatal']2025-02-24 12:05:58,541Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <InstallHypervisorKVM(<NodeConfig(10.96.96.111) @9e80>) @8970> from RUNNING to FAILED2025-02-24 12:05:58,955Z log.py:102 INFO installer_vm.py:184 [600/2430] Hypervisor installation in progress2025-02-24 12:06:28,976Z log.py:102 INFO installer_vm.py:184 [630/2430] Hypervisor installatio

One CVM upgrade is stuck at “Waiting for reboot and upgrade completion” for almost 3 hoursWhile other two nodes were upgraded successfullyAny help will be appreciated. 

We are using Nutanix Prism, both Central and Elements.I heard that Nutanix Prism 2024.03 will no longer support the v3 API.However, we are currently using Nutanix Element APIs (v1, v2, v3), with a few Central APIs, but most of our usage is with Element APIs. How are things going? Will Nutanix deprecate all "Element" APIs from v1 to v3? Also, how can we migrate from Central API v3 to v4? There are many APIs, and we don't have much time to analyze all the v4 APIs. Thank you.

Scheduled Rubrik Nutanix backups fail with an Internal server error similar to this link: Nutanix backup fail with "ENTITY_READ_ERROR" and "Reason: Internal error."Has anyone had success resolving this error? I was able to get a manual snapshot by changing the snapshot type from Automatic to Crash Consistent, then put the vm back into the SLA but it failed again with a different error: "Failed to get changed regions for snapshot_file_path" but one thing at a time for now in the Rubrik console and there are no issues on the CDM as a protected VM.

We are upgrading our Nutanix environment and want to know if we will see any issues running PC 2022.6.0.10 on one instance and PC 2024.2.0.3 on another that are using Prism Central based DR. AOS version is 6.5.5.6 and we are using AHV