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in remote site compression, on wire compression will help the replication speed and does it have any pros and cons by enabling this feature.

I’ve tried to script out bulk creating VM from csv files using PS v2.0 cmdlets.However, unable to spot how to code the equivalent of ‘Guest Customization’, in particular cloud-init ‘custom script’ for Linux and sysprep ‘Guided Script’ for Windows.Is this available through Powershell?#field inputs: ClusterName,Name,NumVcpus,MemoryMb,Description,VmDisks,network,image,ipaddress,osfamily$VMs = Import-Csv -Path "D:\Projects\Technical\nutanix\import.csv"#Default values$NumCoresPerVcpu = 1$secure_boot = $true$taskuuid = @()####$VMs | ftForEach ($VM in $VMs){ ##Storage Section #~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~# $ImageId = (Get-Image | ?{$_.name -eq $VM.image}).uuid $vm_disk_id = (Get-Image $ImageId -IncludeVmDiskId).vm_disk_id #Create VMDiskAddress $cloneDiskAddress =New-NutanixObject VMDiskAddress $cloneDiskAddress.vmdisk_uuid =$vm_disk_id #Create VMDiskSpecClone $vmDiskClone =New-NutanixObject VMDiskSpecC

 I have 5 vms to be replicated one by one manually, If I add the 2nd vm to protection domain and take the manual snapshot, will it take only chnages and 2nd vm or it will take completed 2 vms again

How to check list of vlans mapped in switch end from AHV     we use below command in esxi to know the vlan tagged in switch end .as you know the vlan added in vmware end is just a label until its created in switch end ,[root@esxXXXX:~] esxcli network nic vlan stats set -e true -n vmnic0[root@esxXXXX:~] esxcli network nic vlan stats get -n vmnic0VLAN 0  Packets received: 7144  Packets sent: 6820VLAN 1  Packets received: 5  Packets sent: 0VLAN 2  Packets received: 7  Packets sent: 0VLAN 449  Packets received: 5  Packets sent: 0VLAN 500  Packets received: 5  Packets sent: 0VLAN 800  Packets received: 5  Packets sent: 0VLAN 1133  Packets received: 12  Packets sent: 0   

Hi,can anybody please help me on below query….? I need to migrate the VMs from Nutanix cluster to Nutanix cluster While configuring the remote site for Async  Disasterrecovry there i have seen two options are 1.Network Maping and 2. Storage container .here my doubt is, which vlan i need mention..?Which storage container need to map…?Please help me step by step on this.. Please find the snap for your reference and this is for only reference not exact one.kindly acknowledge it ASAP.  

Hianybody help me on below quarry….?While migrating the vm through the Nutanix Move i am getting below error how fix this issue.  

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. 

download LCM dark side from Nutanix port upload to LCM and run the inventory to upgrade the LCM version from the LCM updates and upload the software packages for AOS AHV run the upgrade

I have situation where prod cluster have multiple vlans and dr cluster had only one vlan, how to map multiple vlans to single vlan in remote site configuration in protection domain based replication

my vm size is 500gb but used space is 48gb, my replication still running after 55gb, may i know the reason

HiI have an intermittent issue where VMs can’t contact VMs on other hosts.  I’m trying to find a pattern with timings and the hosts involved but haven’t found one yet.When a VM can’t reach a VM on another host,  the problem can be resolved by migrating the VMs to the same physical NX hoste.g. VM1 on Host1 can’t reach VM2 on Host2,  workaround is to migrate VM2 to Host1This leads me to believe there is a problem with the network between hosts.  Each host has 2 uplinks going to 2 switches with active-active load balancing and my current theory is the problem lies with the aggregation.   Perhaps packets are leaving eth2 and returning on eth3?I’m going to change the OVS bond mode from Balance-TCP to Active-Backup and see what happens.  I don’t need the throughput of 2 active links so perhaps this should have been the config from the startQuestion - has anyone else seen this behaviour on your cluster?  Environment:4 node clusterUplinks to 2 Cisco Nexus switches aggregrated using Balance-TCP

Hi all, I’m a bit confused about number of vCPU that should be assigned to FSVM. For example, I have 4 nodes and each node with 2 sockets (i.e. 2 vCPU) and each with 16 cores (i.e. total 32 cores per node). When creating FSVM, for example, each FSVM needs 8 vCPUs, but I have 2 vCPUs per node only. And we need at least 3 FSVM, that means we need 24 vCPUs. Is that mean I must have at least 12 nodes? And each vCPU with 1 core only? 

Nutanix can get VM utilization CPU memory (low, high, current) like vmware RVtool?

NIC MAC address can only be configured via acli.It is not possible to change MAC address for an existing NIC. A NIC has to be deleted and then added back with the new MAC address. Nutanix AHV assigns NIC MAC addresses from the range: 50:6B:8D:00:00:00 – 50:6B:8D:FF:FF:FF A statically configured MAC will persist on a Protection Domain migration, but not on any clone or recover from snapshot operation Run the following command on any CVM in the cluster to add a new NIC with a customized MAC address:nutanix@CVM~$ acli vm.nic_create <vm name> network=<network name> mac=<new MAC address>If Network name is not working or not present, we can use Network UUID from acli vm.get <VM-NAME> or acli net.list:nutanix@CVM~$ acli vm.nic_create <vm name> network=<Network-UUID> mac=<new MAC address>Note: “:” symbol must be used as a separator. If no separator is specified or other separator symbols are used, then the addition will fail with an “Invalid MAC addres

can we schedule snapshots weekly at a certain time example weekly Saturday 1PM.

Hi All,  I have done a quick google search and cant find anything on it, would anyone be able to advise if / how with AHV to check / change a VMs disk configuration so that a disk isnt included in a snapshot?  the same way vmware has dependent and independent disks.ThanksStewart

Hello,We will be performing maintenance on a network switch at our DR site that will require some downtime.  This switch provides the trunk ports for our DR nutanix cluster.  Do we need to shut down the cluster prior to the switch maintenance to avoid any corruption or will we be ok with just a temporary loss of networking. Thanks for any info you can provide!

We have a 3-node AHV Nutanix cluster and the cluster wide disk usage reflects the size of the disks provisioned for all the guest VMs. The sum of the disk usage of the VMs do not exceed 3 TB but cluster usage detects 11 TB witch matches the total provisioned disks for the VMs + a few snapshots there. My understanding is the cluster should report a total disk usage of 3 TB + the snapshots, What am I missing here? Thanks in advance for your responses.

I tried to install Windows Server 2022 using OEM provided DIsk image but its getting failed below error. Not sure how i can resolve this    

I have new cluster without license with RF2 redundancy, host failure happens, VM restarted on other host but disk is missing on the vm, is it the expected behavior?

Per the following articlesEnable Nutanix Flow article (Opens in new window or tab) is outdated and is only applicable to older version (Prism Central 5.6). Official Nutanix Flow Network Security (formerly Flow Microsegmentation) article (Opens in new window or tab) is applicable to a newer version 6.6 but it doesn't explain how to send Network Flow data remotely Enhance Application Security with Nutanix Flow and Check Point CloudGuard article (Opens in new window or tab) focuses more on application security that are running on Nutanix Nutanix NetFlow configuration article (Opens in new window or tab) says that Nutanix does not support NetFlow/sFlow out-of-the-box at the moment. Instead, they use an external module https://github.com/sflow/host-sflow/ (Opens in new window or tab) which involves altering production systemsit’s impossible to send network data to a remote server. Since it’s possible in VMware I had an impression that the same can be achieved in Nutanix. I can either use di

Hi guys, i have a scenario here. An Admin forget the password and unable to access to both Prism and CLI.What should he do to regain access to the cluster? I understand if you have access to either one of Prism or CLI, you can reset the password, but what if both unable to access?

Hi team,We have a 20 node(Esxi) vSphere cluster with VCenter . and we want to remove three(3) nodes out of the 20 nodes and all the 20 Esxi nodes part of the cluster.and my questions are1.what are the pre-requisites to remove the esxi nodes from the cluster2.what about the data3.please share the step by step procedure to remove the nodes4.if the polices (affinity or antiaffinity ) are there how we can migrate the data5.what about the functionality of HA and DRS6.what about the network connectivity.please acknowledge as soon as possible.  

Hi,We have just implemented a pairing with a customer on-prem cluster and a protected side cluster and created some protections domains.All seems to works well but we search to obtain more information on protected side.We are currently unable to view Entity Count, Next Snapshot Time, or Entities on a selected Data Protection.Is there a way to obtain this informations ? Is there anything thats was badly configured ?Thanks for your help ;)

Hi,For a new customer we currently configure the data protection context from the production cluster to a DR cluster.The customer want to reduce the storage sizing by selecting which disks on the VMs that will be replicated.Is it possible ? I don’t find anything about this on official documentations.Thanks and best regards.