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Trunked Mode allows multiple VLANs on a single NIC for VMs that are VLAN aware.by default, NIC cards are in access mode.mode can't be changed from the UI (Prism) and the solution is to update from CVM acliyou can also covert exiting NIC card to Trunked Mode however based on my experience best and easy way is to add a new cardStepsSSH CVM acli <acropolis> vm.get VMNAME copy information in notepad nutanix@CVM~$ acli vm.nic_create <vm name> network=<network name> trunked_networks=<comma separated list of allowed VLAN IDs> vlan_mode=kTrunked example:-vm.nic_create VT-LAB-1 network=NETWORK0 trunked_networks=2021,2022 vlan_mode=kTrunkedWHY Trunked is Required Above Setting is required when the virtual machine needs to create multiple networks on a single interface. in my case it's WAF devices that are configured for multiple VLANs, each VLAN is associated with a different kind of applicationif you want to add more VLANs run the belowvm.nic_update TT-WAF-01 00:68:8

Cross hypervisor disaster recovery (CHDR) provides the ability to migrate the VMs from onehypervisor to another (ESXi to AHV or AHV to ESXi) by using the protection domain semanticsof protecting VMs, generating snapshots, replicating the snapshots, and then recovering theVMs from the snapshotsKey notes install and configure NGT on all the VMs When you recover VMs from the AHV hypervisor on the ESXi hypervisor, the VMs come up with E1000 NIC attached by default. However, if you want to bring the VMs up withVMXNET NIC is attached, you must install VMware Tools Static IP address preservation is not supported for CHDR workflows. If a VM has an astatic IP address configured, you must manually reconfigure the VM IP address after its recovery on the target site. Hypervisor-specific properties like multi-writer flags, independent persistent and independent non-persistent disks, or changed block tracking (CBT) is not preserved in the CHDR operation RequirementsNutanix supports only VMs with

ssh nutanix move admin@move on ~ $ rs enter password root@move on ~ $ configure-static-ip Enter the required information as shown in the following example. Do you want to configure static IPv4 address?(y/N)yEnter Static IPv4 Address (e.g. 10.136.97.98)10.136.7.1Enter Netmask (e.g. 255.255.255.0)255.255.255.0Enter Gateway IP Address (e.g. 10.136.97.1)10.136.72.1Enter DNS Server 1 IP Address (e.g. 10.136.74.189)10.136.72.189Enter DNS Server 2 IP Address (e.g. 10.136.74.190)10.136.72.190Enter Domain (e.g. blr.ste.lab)bltr.ste.lab  retry the failed replication

Hello Techies, I am a bit new to Nutanix and in my environment we have bunch of protection domains configured. Some are configured to replicate 1 minute and some are replicating at 1 hour interval. hosts are running VMWare ESXi 7.x versionsThe appropriate replication schedule has been configured in each protection domain at primary site. My question is as below:In a DR exercise(planned failover and both sites are available), if I failover the protection domains to our DR site, I am aware its basic functionality that the VMs will be powered off at primary site and we need to manually power them on at the DR site.Now, suppose VMs are running on DR site, will VMs start the reverse replication(from DR site to primary site) automatically to primary site's protection domain?or do I need to manually create replication schedule at DR site ?Do I need to remove the inactive protection domain at primary site? How do I make sure we won't have any data loss during the failback operation?I am confus

We are running a Nutanix environment with 3 CVM nodes (A,B,C) on 3 separate ESXI hosts (7.0 Update 3) with 3 IPMI configurations using vCLS. Originally, Node A failed during an FSM upgrade and was unable to talk correctly to our Houston Datastore (MCQ-HOU). In doing so, there was no snapshot and we were unable to roll it back. We were currently in the midst of attempting to create a new node on the same ESXI host (.204) through Nutanix Prism but when searching for any existing or accessible hosts it does not find any of them and we are unable to create a new one. We attempted to shut down the cluster, unmount the Datastore on the broken node and re-mount it once we were able to clone a functioning node and change the configuration. In doing so, we are now unable to mount the datastore with the following commands and were presented with an error:esxcli storage nfs remove -v 192.168.5.2:MCQ-Hou Unmountesxcli storage nfs add -H MCQ-Hou -v MCQ-Hou -s 192.168.5.2 MountPlease see the VMkerne

Hi guys, i need imformation about max nodes per cluster for one of our implementation.I cant find any official information for max cluster size.Thanks

Recently i have Expanded the cluster with two node and i have created two vms in the same network range but two vms are not reachable in the Nutanix cluster please help me anyone.

AD user is having trouble accessing the VM console on Prism Central. They can log on normally to Prism Central. After clicking the VM, only a blank page with the name of the VM appears instead of the console. There is no "FAIL" status after the health check that I ran. Additionally, I verified that RBAC allows users to access the VM console.After PC was updated to version pc.2022.6.0.3 with LMC 2.5.x, PE software was upgraded on AOS 6.5.2.5, and AHV 20220304.342, and this problem appeared. Is there a chance that this problem can be resolved?

I have just installed the module Nutanix for Ansible. The demo playbook works fine.https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/08/05/getting-started-with-the-nutanix-ansible-module/But I can’t find in the module documentation how to deploy VM  from a VM template just like we do with https://docs.ansible.com/ansible/latest/collections/community/vmware/vmware_guest_module.html ?Thx

Hello I'm currently working on a Windows Server 2022 image these days, and something got weird on the 3 below scenarios1) From PC - deploying a new VM from image by specifiying guest customization with only username and password Sysprep seems to works but logs are quite short 2) From PC - using a unattend.xml in the guest customization settings that only change username/password Same result as you can see below 3) Manually from inside the VM, launching sysprep.exe /generalize /reboot /oobe Logs are very long (file is like 145ko vs 5ko for 1) and 2) and a lot more stuff seems to be done rather than 1) and 2) , as you can see below My questions are :Does the guest customization from PC is really working ? what should be the best way to sysprep a VM from PC ?  Thanks a lot for your help :) 

 I have the same issue described in https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/ansible-missing-aruments-41627This post have 10 replies but I can’t see them.To test,  I have written values of nutanix_host, nutanix_password, nutanix_username are directly in dem playbook. No way. What is the solution ?thanx a lot

Hello comunity, i need info if these cmdlets are updated or there is new cmdlets for booting configuration?i am preparing boot configuration for deploying VM with UEFI and SATA combination but those cmdlets are not working for me. I am using latest cmdlets downloaded directly from the Prism Element.$boot=New-NutanixObject BootConfig$boot.uefi_boot=$true$boot.secure_boot=$false$boot.boot_device_type='DISK'$boot.disk_address=$diskAddressThose line are throwing errors…Thanks and regards

Hello everybody, We have a customer who informs us about a problem on his AOS/AHV platform:We have encountered in our testing phase several Nvidia problems on the Linux stations:-    Name of the VDI does not show up in the license server;    Unrecognized driver causing the GPU not to be used. Nvidia advised to upgrade to version 13.7.But the version supported by nutanix for the client version is 13.3, the one already in place (https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads?product=ahv) The current versions of the client : AOS: 6.5.1.6AHV: 20220304.24Nvidia grid : 470.129.04nvidia software : 13.3 Can we upgrade from nvidia to version 13.7?Is it supported by nutanix? Thanks for your help Bernard

Hello,Is there a way to deploy Linux Server on Nutanix AHV with RedHat Satellite? I can’t add compute resource in Infrastructure/Compute Resources in Satellite GUI I opened a case on RedHat side and they told me :“The RFE (Request for feature enhancement) has been raised with respect to Bugzilla #2010211, however, the Red Hat Satellite Engineering team has confirmed that this RFE will not be implemented.”Does anyone succeeded to deploy VM On Nutanix with Satellite ?I’m not talking about virt-who, this part is working. 

HiAs Microsoft advise / Windows Server 2022 isn’t Legacy BIOS compatible anymore, i have to set up a brand new template using UEFI.However, if i tick “EFI” and Secure Boot from VM configuration or not, I can’t boot on my ISO at all. It still go to EFI Shell or in the UEFI Menu.I also tried to update VirtIO drivers directly into my Windows image (on install.wim and boot.wim on all indexes) but i can’t go so far in the installation part. Does anyone was able to use EFI settings with Windows Server 2022 ? If yes, what was your settings  ? 

Hello  Data replication, which was well done until yesterday, has stopped and is not progressing. Only one of the five scheduled schedules will be suspended. Note that the three entities that correspond to the schedule are excluded from the schedule for a while. After increasing the cpu and memory, I included it again. Is there any part or command I need to check? This is a dark site, so remote assistance is not available. Help me.

I have installed CE 2.0 on top of Esxi Environment.  I have created new guest VM. While powering on I am getting the following Error.libvirtError: the CPU is incompatible with host CPU: Host CPU does not provide required features: monitorany have idea?im running on amd epyc cpu

I added ssd to the Nutanix cluster, but the tier looks hdd. How can I fix it?

We have 2 Nutanix prism tenants and would like to share the VM resources to keep the logs such as the SNMP logs and Syslog together, Our local services suggest having 2 public IPs to connect it with the VPN tunnel.  Is it possible to configure the virtual network for this solution without the Public IP?I’m not sure it is the best practice to connect 2 local tenants with the VPN tunnel so the packet will route through the public network.

if We have 400 virtual machines and we dont know that who use that virtual machines and we want to know IDLE SERVERS, means the servers no one use. 

Hello guys, I am aware of the application discovery and monitoring feature that comes with prism pro to get the metrics for apps running inside vms. But currently it offers support for only vcenter and mssql server. Is there any other way from nutanix or any third party software that can be leveraged to achieve this?  

is any possiblity to install AHV on Virtual Desktop ? l want to install on VMware Workstation, VirtualBox etc.

Greetings all,Testing out an upgrades I have faced some problems upgrading cluster from 5.20 straight to 6.5.2 AOS version using dark site web server. Even though the Upgrade Path shows that such upgrade is supported, and I was able to upgrade all the other components including the AOS itself using Prism LCM. The only problem is that after Performing Inventory and even after the upgrade complete it does not show AHV version changed or the upgrade available and the AHV version stays the same. I have tried to perform Direct Upload too and even though I could see the uploaded AHV version I still was unable to upgrade it. Upgrade to 6.5.1.8 version went successful, however. So  I had to try it with 6.5.2.5 and the result stays the same as with 6.5.2First I tried to upgrade fromAOS 5.20.1.1 AHV 20201105.2096 → AOS 6.5.2 AHV 20220304.342then after reimaging the cluster toAOS 5.20.2.1 AHV 20201105.2244 →  AOS 6.5.2 AHV 20220304.342.Both upgrades showed same results, then after reimaging the c

Hello guys, I managed to create a new VM running Windows Server 2008 SP2 x64 with the help of the Fedora Redhat VirtIO drivers. Everything works fine so far. Question now ... has anbody managed to get the current Nutanix Guest Tools to run inside? I downloaded SHA-2 Microsoft Patches KB4474419 and KB4493730 for Windows Server 2008 x64, installed them and rebooted but the installation of Nutanix Guest Tools still fails. Any ideas? Thanks

How to create a new vSwitch in AHV to separate the VM traffic to go thru different physical nics?Example, CVM on default vSwitch on eth0, VM traffic on vSwitch on eth1?Also I need to configure LACP on the connection.Thanks. Anthony Yen.