Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

I am aware that in snapshot entity details there is a column that tells you if the recovery status is “Recoverable”, but is this enough to be sure it will work if we use it? Also, what exactly happens if App Consistency is set as False?About recovery time, is it the same for every VM no matter the size of it? Or does it actually depend of how big/small the VM is? If the latter, is it possible to have an estimate recovery time?

I downloaded symantec messaging gateway (brightmail) ova file. I uploaded the vmdk file as an image on my prism. I created a virtual machine and attached the disk. but it is not booting. virtio diriver is not installed., i tried to install it and it is not installed. because brightmail root access is restricted. I never found a way to install it. I talked to symantech support, the result; they said only vmware, hyperv support. I tried many ways; ova, backup/restore.. but without success. I can't run brightmail on ahv. it doesn't boot. I seek help from those who have succeeded in this matter. thank you.

Customer is currently running OVM on Sparc hardware. Guest OS on OVM is Solaris and Oracle Database runs on  Solaris.Nuatnix AHV will support Solaris?there is a way to move to Nutanix AHV and what could be the best guest OS suitable – Oracle Linux or one of the other Oracle certified guest OS’s .

I have CE single node cluster running on VMware 7.02.  Memory 28GB12CvPUAs soon as I create a VM and power it on, it immediately goes to suspended status.  Any help much apprciated.

We have 3 node HPE DX380 deploy nutanix recently.After 2 - 3 days, i saw the physical disk show bad disk suddenly and no flush light in physical disk LED light.  When i login iLO port, the storage is good and no error.  When i login PRISM, look the disk is Red and show “The drive has failed”.  When i unplug it and plug it again, and re-partition it, seems back normal, but i concern the new server have this error suddenly so want to create nutanix case, but when i create case with input HPE serial number, it is not allowed, so i would like to ask how to create Nutanix case for HPE DX380.  Many thanks.

Hi EveryoneSince I upgraded My Nutanix Cluster to AOS 6.0.2.2, the Commvault Backups turns too slow, its takes much more time to finish and sometimes its failed.Someboby has an similar issue? If it yes, what to do to resolve it? Thank you so much.IVAN C. RICCI

Hello! I’m new to the Nutanix community.  Loving the tech so far, but... Has anyone used Packer to deploy Windows from within AHV? I’ve seen plenty of how-to’s on how to create a VM image that can be uploaded to AHV. I want to do the entire process within the cluster. Packer has a QEMU builder but not sure how I can tell it to build it on another VM within the cluster. I’m trying to replace my MDT image deployment process with something that can do Windows and Linux and is more RCS/git friendly. I’m not married to Packer so I’ll take suggestions on other possibilities. And if more detail is needed on what I’m doing currently or desired outcome let me know. Thanks in advance!

Is there a way to implement FT at the VM level (i.e. similar to how it’s done on ESXi) on AHV. I’ve seen a couple of different posts that point to preferred technologies like software HA and AGG (not that I know what/how to do this) but we currently have the requirement for a legacy type VM to be always available and the only method we can do that at the moment \is having ESX as the hypervisor. This is for a future project, so am not locked into current versions. Cheers. Paul

Hi fellas,Does anyone have a clear answer of what is the real cost of AHV?  I’m told that AHV is free but is this referring to only Nutanix Community Edition? What about AOS? when purchasing a Nutanix node/block/cluster, these come pre-installed but the cluster essentially has no ‘smarts’ without the CVM which is AOS.Referencing this Licensing Quick Reference Guide, it looks like AHV is included with AOS but AOS’ licensing metric is charged per node.  Am I reading this correctly?Is it possible to run AHV without AOS? Thanks,JS

Hi Team,Does anyone know when AOS 6 LTS version will available? On Prism or support portal.

My current Nutanix cluster version is 5.18, vCenter and ESXi is 7.0u1. I would like to upgrade the vCenter and ESXi to 7.0.u2. What version Nutanix cluster version support both vCenter and ESXi? And also the Prism version is:-Version pc.2020.9.0.1NCC Version: 3.10.0.6LCM Version: 2.4.3.1 is it above Prism and other component need t upgrade as well.

I had made a short video on auto scaling Nutanix cluster in AWS using new Nutanix Playbooks. Playbooks offer a visual way to start automating actions in your hybrid cloud. Due to making the video short, I didn't spend a lot of time talking about options that you could set. Prism central has a lot of alerts that you can use to trigger the action that you want to take. If you don't see the right “Alert” you can customize one of the existing ones to meet your needs and will be a user defined alert. In my example I was using a critical memory capacity over 80% capacity on adding nodes. If your clusters are typically higher than 10 nodes you might try using a higher percentage based on one node is going to be a lower percentage of memory overall. Likewise you could be more aggressive with picking a lower memory percentage. One thing that you'll want to set as well is the “trigger al

Hi there community, I’m hoping that someone can give me some guidance. We recently acquired a facility with some Nutanix clusters deployed, and this is my first time working with Nutanix. I have access to the vSphere hosts but no idea on the Nutanix side of things. Trying to activate the support portal with any and all serial numbers I can find just gives me an invalid serial number message….which means I can’t open a support ticket to ask about the serial numbers. I see each of the host machines running a Nutanix Controller VM, but I’m guessing there is a central management console tied to the hardware (NX?), and a spreadsheet from the seller lists some hardware/enclosure serial numbers, but under serial number just mentions refer to PRISM. I’m trying to hunt down someone at the seller to provide more details and make sure things get transferred, but is there anything I can do or look at in the meantime to figure this thing out?

Hi, We are looking for a solution to restore the VMs running on Nutanix AHV to a vSphere (SAN based) environment. I've heard that HYCU can do backups on ESXi non-nutanix, however is not clear if I can restore VMs running on AHV to ESXi non-Nutanix and vice-versa. If HYCU is not the answer, is there any other vendor that can achieve this goal? Nutanix AHV backup/DR to ESXi non-Nutanix. We need to run the VMs on ESXi non-Nutanix in case of Nutanix/Primary DC failure.

 Nutanix’s support for bare-metal is getting close. Please take a look at some of the foundational components for networking in Azure.NCM (Nutanix Clusters on Azure) utilizes Flow Networking to create an overlay network in Azure to ease administration for Nutanix administrators and reduce networking constraints across Cloud vendors.  Flow Networking is used to abstract the Azure native network by creating overlay virtual networks. On the one hand this abstracts the underlying network in Azure, while at the same time, it allows the network substrate (and its associated features and functionalities) to be consistent with the customer’s on-premise Nutanix deployments.You will be able to create new virtual networks (called Virtual Private Clouds or VPCs) within Nutanix, subnets in any address range, including those from the RFC1918 (private) address space and define DHCP, NAT, routing, and security policy right from the familiar Prism Central interface.

What is the status of Credential Guard on Nutanix VMs? We are running AOA 5.20.I have created a new VM with UEFI, Secure boot and Credential Guard enabled, but I can’t get it to work. Credential Guard is enabled with GPO, but still will not run. When I look at device security, it says “Standard hardware security not supported” and there is no compatible TPM shown in tpm.msc.The OS I’m testing it on is Microsoft Server 2019.

I need someone to light my bulb regarding data protection scenario I have in my mind. Currently we're migrating from NetApp/UCS ESX to Nutanix ESX and we uses Commvault as data protection. In addition to Commvault, we uses volume snapshot in NetApp for DR and fast recovery. This does not replicate to remote site however. In Nutanix, I have configured container for Prod and Dev/QA datastores. Prod datastore protected by Commvault intellisnap and keep two day worth of snapshots. DEV/QA datastore does not protected by Commvault due to licensing issue, we would like to use Nutanix data protection to have similar data protection like Prod datastore (2 day snapshots) . My question is, writing script to adding VMs automatically to data protection domain is the only way to go? Or any other suggestion?

Can Credential Guard be enabled via GPO for 2016 servers running in AHV? Or is this something that only applies to servers running on a HyperV host?

We have a UTM with 6 interfaces that go to separate subnets. Each subnet has a ToR Switch. The UTM handles the routing. We are installing a new Nutanix 4 node Block and virtualization physical servers. Assuming that we have 6 physical servers and each server is on a separate subnet, what would our network diagram look like if we included the Nutanix Block? Would we need another switch that has the 6 subnets vlanned, ie: 1 connection from the block and then based on the traffic destination send the traffic out through the vlan port to the ToR switch in the destination subnet?

So i’ve been going through Google searches to find an answer whether Cascade Lake vs Ice Lake can coexist within the same cluster. Unfortunately no luck. So i hope this forum can help me answer this question.My concern is that i was made to understand that Cascade Lake and Ice Lake CPU architecture is different, thus that may pose a performance problems to VM even if the nodes can coexist within the cluster.So the question is, can NX-G7 and NX-G8, which will run on different CPU archtiecture coexist within the same cluster and will it cause any performance issues if this is possible?It would help if you can point me to a KB article or any article for that matter to explain this.Thank you in advance for the help……..

Hello Nutanix community!I have a question about the ability to access the AHV/CVM console from https://demo.nutanix.com/Is the experience limited to the Prism GUI or can we also access the cluster console?Thanks

Is it possible to have a replication with 30 minutes RPO, as Near Sync supports 1 to 15 min RPO and Async support >= 60 min. Is there any option by which we can have 30 minutes RPO.

Hi Nutanix,Some Nutanix Nodes are installed at customer end and they don’t have Specification. I tried get on google but no luck. Could you please help me? 

Which antivirus enterprise solution do you use on our virtualized Windows servers/client? Any recommendations?We are currently looking into BitDefender and Huntress Labs.  

Can we change the CVM password to something else, and will it affect the Nutanix services if we do so?Thanks in advance :)