Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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.

I have need to stand up an ESXi nested VM for running a Singlewire Informacast VM that refuses to run on AHV natively. Following some blogs/guides, I’ve manually created a NIC with the e1000 model and it seems to work fine under ESXi 6.7 but the ESXi 7.0 installer won’t recognize the NIC. From what I’ve seen online, the e1000 driver might not be supported on ESXi 7.0 anymore.In any case, I wanted to see if anyone else has had any luck getting ESXi 7.0 working as a nested VM on AHV. Thanks.

Hello,Is there any way that we can monitor a particular VM activity - log file from Nutanix and forward it to the Syslog server.

Hello,I've the error (see below), but I don't understand what It's mean in french (I'm french). What menu/option are concerned ? What are "standby site" ? how move VM to “this” site ?Thanks**********Warning: 1 VMs are running on the standby site 'Site2' of protection domain 'SC-Site1-01'. However, all the I/O operations are being forwarded to this site. This can significantly affect the performance of VMs. It is recommended to move VMs to this site or update the DRS rules. The affected VMs list is: FR-APP84DescriptionVMs are hosted at the standby site of the Metro Availability protection domain.RecommendationHost the VMs at the active site of the Metro Availability protection domain.**********

Hey guys,I made a quite new discovery that is totally new to me and I try to understand where this is comming from, maybe someone can help :)Scenario: There are 2 ESX clusters, connected via Metro. The DataStore on the source site is ~2TB, the datastore on the destination is about 1TB and I have no clue why :)Both DataStores only use compression, there are no other snapshots on the source side and this is for a couple of days now, so no curator run should be involved. Ideas anyone? Cheers, Flo

Hello,I have been searching for KB(s) that show the services we can restart without an impact on the cluster (wither a single node or more) such as genesis stop cluster_health in KB 13150, do we have such information that we can use without the need to open a case with support? BR   

Hi,New to Nutanix. Setting up our new Nutanix cluster that will run VMware as the hypervisor. Is it recommended to create 1 storage container that utilizes all storage capacity for all VMs (150) to reside? I am use to creating multiple datastores in a traditional 3 tier architecture, but i know a lot of those practices go away with hyperconverged.The main reason I ask is that although we have no plans at this point to use other Nutanix services such as Files or Database, I don’t want to be in a position if I create a storage container for VMware VM’s and assign it all of the capacity and then find out later that I cannot use Nutanix Files because all space was initially given to VMware.Any recommendations or best practices you can share to ensure I don’t shoot myself in the foot?Thanks  

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Hello,We have a scenario where we need to grant access to console VM's to some users without this users have access to prism. Do you know if exist some way that bypass authentication to launch console VM? Maybe a API call that I can pass this authentication in a code, for example? I know that in url vm, I can inform the uuid of VM's the access works, but I need grant access without directly logon on prism Thanks 

For installing a Ubuntu Server Cloud image is it still required to customize it to add the serial port as described in a 2-year old article in this forum for installing Ubuntu Server Cloud.  Also do Ubuntu Server 22.04 OVA images work or must use .img? See: Ubuntu 22.04 (Jammy Jellyfish) [20230107]  

I opened a thread a month ago about Cloud Connect S3 consumption and when checking on it today I found that it was closed to comments.https://next.nutanix.com/nutanix-disaster-recovery-29/aws-cloud-connect-s3-consumption-issue-41499?postid=63137#post63137There was no explanation for this action in the thread or via PM to me. Can someone let me know why this was done?

I wrote a dutch blog about howto perform Nutanix Files DR.https://marcotubben.wixsite.com/marcosblog happy reading :-) 

Hi,I have two Nutanix clusters on different sites (one on each site) a few miles apart with 10GB low latency networking in place.I have setup a two node failover SQL Server cluster for HA on a single site, but I would like to add DR to the solution.I know Availability groups (and other options) are a good solution for this, but we can’t implement those at present and so I am looking for the ‘correct’ way to replicate the two node HA that we have (With it’s shared storage) across to the second site so that our front-end application will continue to function in the event of a site failure.Any tips or pointers would be very much appreciated!Thanks

Hi,We have two locations and want to install Two-nodes-Cluster in the production location and One-node-cluster in the Disaster Location and to replicate these clusters each other. My question is:Can we connect two-nodes directly with 10 Gbit DAC SFP+ cables each others? So, Is physical switch necessary to install two-nodes-cluster? We want to use Direct Connection (via DAC Cables) for RF2 data replication between two-nodes and 2 x 1/10 Gbit Base-T port will be using for VMs connection and replication VMs to one-node-cluster in the DR site. Is this scenario possible? What about fail-back scenario? (back from DR to Production)Notes:We have 3 x NX1175S G8 Nodes We want to use AHV or ESXiThanks. 

Hi All,I am installing Nutanix AOS into Fujitsu RX2540 M5 node via foundation 5.3.3. But the installation failed with dependencies not met and Failed to register internal hypervisor. Any suggestion?===============================================================2022-12-30 18:47:18,205Z DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(192.168.100.34) @cb90>) @bc90> from PENDING to RUNNING2022-12-30 18:47:18,210Z INFO Running <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(192.168.100.34) @cb90>) @bc90>2022-12-30 18:47:18,213Z DEBUG Cache MISS: key(<function common_validations at 0x7fc52aae17d0>_()_{'global_config': <foundation.config_manager.GlobalConfig object at 0x7fc528086cd0>})2022-12-30 18:47:18,214Z INFO Running redundancy factor validations2022-12-30 18:47:18,216Z INFO Validating parameters. This may take few minutes2022-12-30 18:47:18,217Z INFO Running validations to ensure non-duplicacy of hostnames2022-12-30 18:47:18,218Z INFO Running hypervisor