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While learning AHV I’m a bit confused on a few things as it relates to vStores and Remote Sites. What is the purpose of a vStore and how do they differ from Containers? What are the implications of mapping a Site-A’s vStore (Container-A) to Site-B’s vStore (Container-B) that has running VMs in it? What are the implications of not including all VMs from within Site-A’s Container-A in a Protection Domain and failing-over said PD to Site-B?      - Will the unprotected VMs from Container-A continue to run in Site-A?      - What happens when I fail-back the PD to Site-A? Let’s say I’ve mapped Container-A (Site-A) to Container-B (Site-B). If I create a Protection Domain that contains VMs from Container-A2 (Site-A), how does this factor into my vStore mappings between sites? Thanks for the assist!

Hi all We recently converted one of our environments to AHV/Acropolis from ESX/VCenter. All is well and runs just fine. One of the caveats is, we have a tertiary machine we use in “disaster” type scenarios and with this machine we would use our backup solution to “backup” a VM to and run with VMWare Workstation. As I understand it, Nutanix does not offer a “Workstation” type solution, so I am reaching out to hopefully receive some feedback on what a “new” solution would entail. Could I build a small PC and run Community edition on it? Can communtiy edition run on say an i9/32gb RAM/1TB ssd or does it need N+1 to function? This way I could point my backup solution to the new cluster or have my cluster be aware of a NAS solution and ingest the AHV VM as needed in these type scenarios. Any feedback will help me in the endeavor!

Licensing is an important and integral part of Nutanix Clusters. All Nutanix Software Products does not require a license. Nutanix provides these products and their features without requiring you to do anything license-wise:Nutanix AHV Karbon (enabled through Prism Central) Prism Central (Prism Pro, however, requires a license for its advanced features, but you can manage registered Prism Element clusters with the base Prism Central software) Framework and utility software such as Life Cycle Manager (LCM), X-Ray, and Move FoundationViewing License Status: The most current information about your licenses is available from the Prism Element or Prism Central web console. It is also available at the Nutanix Support Portal from the Products link. You can view information about license levels, expiration dates, and any free license inventory (that is, unassigned available licenses)Displaying License Features and DetailsRequirements and Considerations for LicensingLicensing Guide

Nutanix Clusters deliver a hybrid multi-cloud platform addressing the need of a single platform, that can span private, distributed, and public clouds. This will help in managing traditional and modern applications using a Consistent Cloud Platform.Nutanix Clusters has features like:Operational Simplicity Seamless Application Mobility Cost EfficiencyThe above features help to run applications in private or multiple public clouds and reduce the operational complexity of migrating, extending, or bursting your applications and data between clouds.Nutanix Clusters extends the simplicity and ease of use of Nutanix Hyper-Converged Infrastructure (HCI) software, as well as the full Nutanix stack to public clouds such as AWS.We can Modify, Update Display, Hibernate, Resume or Delete Nutanix clusters running on AWS by using the Nutanix Clusters console.Release NotesKnown Issues

Hello! I’m pretty new to this Nutanix world. Have been dealing with standard server+storage for more than a decade. We have 2 clusters here, with 3 nodes in each site with metro availability. There are 3 protection domains active in each site (active) that are replicated to the other site (passive) and vice-versa.    Site1: Node1 - Node3 - Node5 PDs site1 (active): PROD_001, DEV_001, INFRA_001 PDs site1 (passive): PROD_002, DEV_002, INFRA_002   Site2: Node2 - Node4 - Node6 PDs site2 (active): PROD_002, DEV_002, INFRA_002 PDs site2 (passive): PROD_001, DEV_001, INFRA_001   In vCenter cluster configuration we obviously have affinity rules for VMs/Hosts in site1 and VMs/Hosts in site2, preventing the VMs running in “odd” nodes from being stored in “even” nodes. Sometimes we have to migrate VMs from one site to another. So we do a complete vmotion (compute and storage). After the migration, we start to constantly receive alerts with this message: Snapshot status for vstore INFRA_001: Faile

Hi Cloud builderWhile I was reading the NTNX Bible they said that the VM snapshot being taked by freezing the VM, unlikely with ESXi where the VM is stunned » Delta created for I/Os and then VMDK is consolidatedMy question while on NTNX Platform how/when the I/O takes place while VM is being snapshot’ed while its freeze.

HelloI am interested in the possibility to get a VM memory dump for further analysis (list of processes, sockets, other artifacts). How to do it if using the KVM hypervisor (Acropolis).I need to create a dump on a running VM for analysis. A detailed description of the procedure is required. If I understand correctly, all VMs in Nutanix are kept in the form of files, which files are VM dump files? Оr does Nutanix have a special procedure for creating and downloading a complete dummy file(s) of a virtual machine?OS doesn't matter, it can be anything.Please tell me the information to understand this issue.

Today - we will highlight the flexibility Nutanix offers with Protection Domains. You can access Protection Domains via the “Data Protection” Menu option in Prism.DR Basics in Nutanix:The foundation of data protection and disaster recovery in a Nutanix cluster is the concept of snapshots.Snapshots work very similar to VM/vDisk clones - leveraging a "redirect on write" algorithm that marks a snapshotted vDisk as immutable and directing new write operations (block overwrites and new blocks) to a new vDisk.  Read operations reference the correct vDisk blocks based on metadata lookup from the meta-data store.  From the Nutanix Bible - Book of Acropolis - Backup & Disaster RecoveryWhat is a Protection Domain (PD)?* Key Role: Macro group of VMs and/or files to protectDescription: A group of VMs and/or files to be replicated together on a desired schedule.  A PD can protect a full container or you can select individual VMs and/or files.A protection domain is a group of Virtual Machines fo

​Processing power doubles endlessly, it seems, and become less and less expensive. Applications, at the same time, are developed with less of resources efficiency in mind and thus demand more and more resources. And so the spiral grows. While in most cases it is not an issue and performance is not impacted in some instances you have to squeeze performance out of your environment. Possible scenarios include:VMs or applications where traffic packets are relatively large. VMs/apps with multiple concurrent connections, where network traffic moves between guest VMs on the same host, guest VMs across hosts or to the hosts themselves, or from guest VMs to an external system. To provide relief to vNIC RX packet drop rate increases (per KB 4540 - Handling packet drops from vNICs in AHV) where CPU contention of guest/host has already been ruled out.For those particular instances, there is a solution. This is not a “turbo” button. Do not use this for all your VMs. Rule out other sources of conten

I'm trying to move our vms from one cluster to another but the built in remote site don't work so now I'm trying to manually move the vmdisk files to the other cluster but the NFS connection stops working after a while. I have tried to mount the NFS share in a ESXi server but the transfer errors out after a while. Now I'm trying to use qemu-img to convert the vmdisk and move it, but it fails with : qemu-img convert nfs://127.0.0.1/default-container-49239103706845/.acropolis/vmdisk/81cd6231-e421-441c-850c-9124adf565d0 -O qcow2 ./dns-export.qcow2 & NFS Error: NFS: Read failed with NFS3ERR_JUKEBOX(-11) qemu-img: error while reading sector 4202495: Resource temporarily unavailable Is there any logs that will tell me what is happening with the NFS connection?

Hello.  I’m a long time vmware guy, but due to a merger our esx cluster is getting migrated to a nutanix AHV cluster before long.  I currently run rhel 7 and 8, with virt-who registering directly with RedHat.  I patch our few dozen nodes generally with scripts or manually just depending.  In researching RHEL on Nutanix, it looks like their provided virt-who only mentions satellite server.  Our company although large, has classically been too cheap to purchase it.  Can you use the nutanix virt-who without satellite?

Hello guy , hope you are all safe around the world !I want to know what is the difference between xi leap and cloud connect ?Thank you

What is NSX-T ?NSX-T provides customers a way to run software-defined networking infrastructure. NSX-T data center provides networking, security and automation for cloud-native applications, bare metal workloads, multi-hypervisor environments, public clouds, and multiple clouds. NSX-T is designed to address the needs of these emerging application frameworks and architectures with heterogeneous endpoints and technology stacks. NSX-T allows IT and development teams to choose the technologies best suited for their particular applications.Logical overview of vSphere Switching Components, where NSX-T fits and how the Nutanix platform interacts with them  NOTE:  NSX-T support is only available from AOS 5.16.1/5.10.9 and above. For more details please review below KB: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CsyzCAC

Hello All,I am new to Nutanix and AHV; however, I have a large amount of experience with Hyper-v and SCVMM. One of the things I am trying to do is automate the creation of a vm’s. My end goal is to take an “image” base drive I have uploaded to images containing an install of my windows OS.Deploy a new vm with that image, have a static IP assigned to the new vm automatically from a pool of IP’s, join my domain, and run a few powershell scripts in the VM. I would have done this all with an IP pool and a template in SCVMM and as much as I have read about templates in AHV I am not seeing anything like it. Am I missing something here?Do we have a resource on how to configure something like this?

I am trying to install the Nutanix virt-who v1.1 rpm on RHEL 6.10 to talk to Red Hat Satellite v6.3.  I have installed the virt-who rpm with its dependencies except for systemd (which does not exist for RHEL v6), installed Python 2.7 from the Software collections rpm, set the “scl enable python27 bash” in /etc/rc.d/rc.local,  changed the virt-who script to point to that instead of /usr/bin/python, but it fails to run.  I have determined that the failure is do the the ‘require’ in the python script not finding the virt-who libraries.  To replicate that, I can run “pip -v list” and see that virt-who is not listed.Has anyone gotten past this? Thanks,mark

Does AHV supports MSCS ? I am aware about two node windows cluster with witness VM mentioned in below : https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v58:wc-cluster-two-node-c.html But just want to confirm if it supports MSCS with shared storage including quorum?

Reported Issue: Nutanix has identified an issue Windows VMs may crash and reboot unexpectedly hosted on AHV Cluster with following bug checks: CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION (0x109)             ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NOEXECUTE_MEMORY (0xFC)  Solution: If you are experiencing above issue, Nutanix recommends upgrading to AHV Version 20190916.231 or later. These versions contain fix for this issue.For more details reference to KB 9351Nutanix Field AdvisoryAHV Upgrade

As you already know Nutanix provides block storage services in your clusters which are called Volume Groups. This provides SAN like capabilities by leveraging the existing hyper-converged infrastructure. Additionally, volume groups support SCSI unmap commands natively without having to turn on any additional setting as of AOS 4.7 in order to reclaim space from deleted blocks, more on that in the Nutanix Bible in the “Volumes (Block services)” section.  However, there are certain caveats when using volume groups as backup targets so you must architect your backup solution wisely as you may have to consider losing some benefits in order to gain others.In this example, I will focus on Veeam’s feature of Fast clone, which you can read more about Veeam’s documentation here. However, this could apply to any backup solution that leverages underlying features from the file system to provide storage savings.  In essence, this solution leverages the block cloning feature from ReFS in Windows whi

Something quick for the end of the week.Did you know you can test a copy of your VM with no impact to the production instance?Provided you replication is configured to a remote site, here is how you can do this:1. Open prism element for the remote site2. Navigate to the Protection Domain (PD) dropdown 3. Find the PD containing the VM that you would like to restore 4. Restore the VM with a new name using Out-of-Place Restore restore option (and NOT an In-Place Restore).Important: Understand the networking setup and the testing scenario before executing the task. Consider turning off the NICs on the VM or assigning them to a VLAN that is not routed across to the VM’s original site or externally. Depending on the application it is possible that asymmetric data forwarding or conflicting announcements from the application on both VMs (the original and the recovered temporary copy) may cause data loss. Data Protection and Recovery with Prism Element: Restoration of Protected EntitiesIn case

Learn how Nutanix Clusters can be hibernated to save costs and let you easily continue where you left off with our very own Dwayne Lessner.   Share your comments below and let me know what other videos you would like to see. Give this video a thumbs up if it helped you.

Learn how to quickly get to work with native cloud networking with Nutanix Clusters on AWS with our very own Dwayne Lessner.   Share your thoughts in the comments and let me know how you are using Nutanix Clusters.

Learn how to quickly deploy Nutanix Clusters on AWS from our very own Dwayne Lessner.   Share your thoughts in the comments and let me know how clusters is working for you.

Environment: Windows Server 2019 version 1809 (core and with graphical user interface). At the moment I am working for a customer to do migrations to Windows Server 2019. Since the migration of the virtual environment by the customer from VMWare VSphere 6.xxx to Nutanix AHV, version 20170830.412 I have the following problem. Before the installation I could work with the Window Admin Center on a Windows Server 2019 without any restrictions. After the installation the Windows Admin Center can be opened, but several error messages appear: Error messagesPerformance class not found:CPU performance class not found on this computer.Remote Exception: The property 'Product' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists. Type: ErrorRetrieve user settings and extensions: RemoteException: The property 'Product' cannot be found on this object. Verify that the property exists. This means that no more data is displayed in the overview and the Tools bar of the Admin Center is on

HI Everyone!   Can you map a test network in a recovery plan to both the production network and the Test network at the recovery site?  Nothing in the documentation around this.  Our customer has VLAN 2 at the recovery location (isolated) and this is the network that matches current VLAN 1 in production.  Since it’s isolated, they also want to use it for testing. Thanks!  

I ugraded my ESXi hosts using 1-click upgrade to VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-15160138.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A04 with no issues. Trying to apply patch ESXi670-202004002.zip using 1-click upgrade and get the following error: Upgrade bundle is not compatible with current VIBs installed in hypervisor. [DependencyError] VIB QLC_bootbank_qedi_2.10.19.0-1OEM.670.0.0.8169922 requires qedentv_ver = X.11.15.0, but the requirement cannot be satisfied within the ImageProfile. I am able to successfully patch using esxcli and update manager.  I updated the image profile to DellEMC-ESXi-6.7U3-15160138-A04 on the hosts thinking that may resolve the issue but this did not work. Anyone have any suggestions to get 1-click upgrade to function with 6.7u3?