Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

We migrated many guests from vmware esx to Nutanix sans cd-rom. They are all in production now. But we find that many of them need NGT for better backups. The bus type is SCSI. To add NGT you need CD-ROM but we have none. The NGT install looks to be unique per guest with special certificates injected into the CD-ROM. We dont want the extra CD-ROM hardware always lingering so we remove it after NGT install.Consider this a plea for help, a gripe and a feature request.To add NGT, we must shutdown the guest. Add CD-ROM (because it wont let us hot-add). Boot, install NGT. Shutdown, remove CD-ROM and boot.Why no hot-add capability?Can someone offer a simpler workflow that only involves one reboot?Why not make the ISO available to the guest in additional ways like a SMB share or Web\SSL download link.Why not add a feature to the NGT install that allows any guest to negotiate the needed certificates with the cluster on the fly?If any of these problems have a solution, please update the kb’s an

We have VM which were deleted but we keep getting an error that veeam cannot make snapshot from. they seem to be under the protection domain and veeambackupprotection 

I am configuring Leap on 2 remote clusters running AHV and I have performed the following :Deployed Prism Central on each cluster Enabled Nutanix Leap on each AZ Paired the 2 clusters successfully Created Protection Policies and replicated some VMs (it works properly as I am able to manually perform a restore on the target cluster)When creating a recovery plan, on network settings page, production and test failover subnets (for the remote site) are not shown and a message 'no options available' is displayed in the GUI.Please see below :  Do you have an idea of what is wrong ? Is there anything missing ?Thanks.

I want to create a backup report that is sent to a specific email address everyday, which contains data protection status for the last 24 hours (both successful and failed).I have Prism Central, and have tried using the “Reports” feature. In that I have chosen a data table and configured it to show VMs in Data Protection.The report works, but I get no status about success or failed backups.I have also tried using the API, but cannot manage to get the info I want.How do you guys get backup reports/status? This is a requirement from our IT audit group, that we can show successful and/or failed backups every day.

It’s unclear to me whether or not it is supported to mount datastores, whether NFS or iSCSI, from external sources onto VMware hosts running on Nutanix for VMDK storage for VMs. I apologize if this has been answered before or clearly stated in docs somewhere.

We want to implement Nutanix Leap On premise between two clusters. The two cluster are installed on different locations (4km between the two sites).The two clusters are intented to be active, so each cluster must replicate VMs to each other (Cluster A → Cluster B and Cluster B → Cluster A)As per the documentation, we need an instance of Prism central on each site, which represents an Availability Zone.For easy management purposes, we want to be able to manage all the 2 clusters from a single pane of glass; is it possible to have a third Prism central instance to manage all these 2 clusters ?How this could be implemented?

Currently I have 2 Cluster of 2 CPU with 2 core per CPU. so haw I calculate vCPU:pCPU Ratio?

Can someone chime in on how Licensing woudl work when using AHV? For example, we currently have Windows 2012R2 Datacentre edition on each host and we have the ability to have unlimited licensed Windows Servers virtualised. I know that AHV doesn't require a license but does that mean that a license for each Widnows Virtual Server will need to be purchased hence invalidating our Datacentre license???

Hello,We are buying a Nutanix Cluster of 3 nodes nx-3170-g8, but the management, also intending to buy vSphere 7 licenses thinking to replace the Hypervisor in the Nutanix boxes.I would like to know, if this can be done? and if yes, what documents or procedures must be followed?Thank you in advance,

Hi TogetherIs there a way automatically provisioning Linux Server on Nutanix Platform with RedHat Satellite? It doen’t seem there is a nutanix provider for satellite.And this link covers only Redhat subscription management: Simplified Subscription Management for AHV with Red Hat Satellite ServerSomeone tried “Libvirt” Provider in satellite with Nutanix?Kind RegardSteve

Dear All,Please, is there any changes in the exam questions of NCP-MCI 5.15 and NCP-MCI 5.20. Because i have done the training for NCP-MCI 5.20 and i would like to take the exam by next month.

Hello, I am seeing something odd that I don’t remember to be normal. I have an Async DR protection domain replicating from a 5.20 LTS AHV source cluster to a target STS 6.0.2.5 cluster. There are a decent amount of VM's being protected today and the snapshots are replicating, but the “entities” and “VM count” on the target cluster PD page show “0” - I don’t believe I have ever seen that before and can’t find a picture in my other documents.  Is that normal? Could it be something between the versions where the target doesn’t show the VM entities that are part of the protection domain? Any help on the sanity check is appreciated. Thanks!

Hello everyone,Someone before me in my current job created a couple of VMs in AHV with IDE bus type for their disks instead of SCSI. Just a quick glance of the documentation I found this:AHV does not leverage a traditional storage stack like ESXi or Hyper-V. All disk(s) are passed to the VM(s) as raw SCSI block devices. So my question is, why would someone decide to create IDE disks? Am I missing something? I know it’s common practice for CD-ROM drives, but not storage disks. No wonder I noticed a really bad performance on those servers recently.

Is it possible to live migrate a VM from one AHV cluster to another AHV cluster ? or live migration is only within one AHV cluster ??

I would like to use cluster api to deploy my K8s cluster in an hybrid manner. Vsphere and AWS are CAPI provider. Will Nutanix support that?

I would like to take full blame for people thinking self healing solves all problems with Nutanix Cloud Clusters (NC2).  The self-healing is pretty awesome for bad nics, hard drives and nodes but there are some instances where the portal can’t take action.Status checks on AWS are performed every minute, returning a pass or a fail status in the Cloud Portal. If all checks pass, the overall status of the instance is OK. If one or more checks fail, the overall status is impaired.There are two types of status checks, system status checks, and instance status checks. System status checks monitor the AWS systems on which instance runs. Instance status checks monitor the software and network configuration of individual instances.  Notification Center in the Clusters PortalThe Clusters portal has an notification service that keeps track of all informational, warnings and critical alerts. Like most Cloud based services there is no support for SNMP in the portal but does have the ability to send

Hello Team,During the commvault back noticing below errors;curl-err:[No error] http-resp:[401] url:[https://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:xxxx/api/nutanix/v3/data/changed_regions] server-resp:[{"state": "ERROR", "code": 401, "message_list": [{"reason": "AUTHENTICATION_REQUIRED", "message": "Authentication required.", "details": "Basic realm=\"Intent Gateway Login Required\""}], "api_version": "3.1"}] resp-size:[209]Looks like CBT (change region) errors.Any comments/suggestions are welcomed!

Looking to protect VMs running in production on Nutanix AHV to a DR site running Non-Nutanix VMware ESXi hardware. Currently VEEAM seems to only support “Instant Recovery” to vmware. Which seems to mean the VM is running from the backup file. I suppose at this point you could vmotion to permanent storage. Unfortunately there’s no way to know how slow this will be even if the backup repository was on the same san. Curious if there is any other backup software that makes this process a little more direct, or if anyone had expereince with this type of recovery. Thanks in advance.Currently looking at: CommVault; HYCU, scripting exporting and importing disk files, praying nothing ever breaks, crying.  

Our 5-node Nutanix Mine with Veeam is using the default 75% as the watchdog capacity.The Nutanix Mine administration guide mentions paramters associated with this:restart_jobs_threshold_percentcancel_jobs_threshold_percentstop_issuing_jobs_threshold_percentand advises customers should contact support if they wish to tweak these.My question is this: Which organisation’s support covers this? Veeam or Nutanix?

Using Nutanix API, I detached a disk from a VM by just specifying device_bus and device_index.  The disk was attached from a passthru external repository.  After detaching the disk, I tries to delete the external repository, I got the following response message from delete external repository API:"The external repository hsing-ahv-test-repo hosts some virtual disks that are still in use"I could not delete the external repository.  So, I deleted the VM, but still I could not delete the external repository. Any way to remove the virtual disk and delete the external repository?Thanks

Hi,I have a confusion between the role played by foundation and phoenix, during a LCM firmware upgrade, moreover I am not finding a deep dive article explaining this end to end:1. Once the phoenix iso is created and mounted to the host along with the upgrade bundle, Can phoenix run independently and complete the upgrades or needs help from foundation for performing some tasks like host reboot ?2. During LCM upgrade, since the node undergoing upgrades, will have all VMs powered off including the CVM, will it take help from a remote CVM foundation to orchestrate the upgrades on this host ?3. Putting host in maintenance mode is taken care by LCM or foundation service?4. Can you please give a high level working of the phoenix mechanism, since the hypervisor installer itself is a separate iso, which needs to be mounted, just wondering how phoenix handles multiple iso, does it mount simultaneously with the upgrade iso?

Did you ever wonder what the blinking green light or the solid amber light on the LED of the network card indicates?Are you confused between a blinking green light and a solid green light? Different NIC manufacturers use different LED colors and blink states. Not all NICs are supported for every Nutanix platform. To know what each blink state means on the different manufactured LEDs, check out this article here. 

Hello All,I have a concern about Failover test while using Async replication with On-premise Leap.For test purposes, Nutanix recommend to use a Test virtual Network that must be isolated from the Production Network. Is it a good option to create a virtual Network without any NIC bound for the test network ? Thanks.

Enable or disable console support for a VM with only one vGPU configured. Enabling console support for a VM with multiple vGPUs is not supported. By default, console support for a VM with vGPUs is disabled.To enable or disable console support for each VM with vGPUs, do the following: Run the following aCLI command to check if console support is enabled or disabled for the VM with vGPUs.acli> vm.get vm-nameWhere vm-name is the name of the VM for which you want to check the console support status.The step result includes the following parameter for the specified VM:gpu_console=FalseWhere False indicates that console support is not enabled for the VM. This parameter is displayed as True when you enable console support for the VM. The default value for gpu_console= is False since console support is disabled by default.Note: The console may not display the gpu_console parameter in the output of the vm.get command if the gpu_console parameter was not previously enabled. Run the followin

AHV hosts support GPU pass-through for guest VMs, allowing applications on VMs direct access to GPU resources. The Nutanix user interfaces provide a cluster-wide view of GPUs, allowing you to allocate any available GPU to a VM. You can also allocate multiple GPUs to a VM. However, in a pass-through configuration, only one VM can use a GPU at any given time. Host Selection Criteria for VMs with GPU Pass-Through When you power on a VM with GPU pass-through, the VM is started on the host that has the specified GPU, provided that the Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler determines that the host has sufficient resources to run the VM. If the specified GPU is available on more than one host, the Acropolis Dynamic Scheduler ensures that a host with sufficient resources is selected. If sufficient resources are not available on any host with the specified GPU, the VM is not powered on.If you allocate multiple GPUs to a VM, the VM is started on a host if, in addition to satisfying Acropolis Dynamic Sched