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when i do retrieve, i can do for the entire snapshot. but the snapshot contains a lot of vms and i only need one. so how can i pull just one?

We are looking to do application-consistent snapshots of VMs running recent releases of RHEL, CentOS and Windows Server on AHV. However, the following document indicates that releases such as RHEL 7.4+, CentOS 7.4+ and Windows Server 2019 are not yet supported: Conditions for Application-consistent SnapshotsIs anybody having any issues with application-consistent snapshots for these releases? Some of these OS versions are not even that recent - RHEL 7.4 was released in August of 2017!

Operating System : MS Window 2012 serverHypervisor : AHVIssues :A windows server with the above mentioned OS is running on Nutanix Cluster (AHV). The VM is not able to access via the PE while launch console it show a black screen. However, its still able to RDP into the server and the applications is still be able to access. But after awhile i presume all services went down and the above is not viable anymore. Have to hard reset the VM, after which the virtual machine power up and its not able to detect the virtual disk (the virtual disk is still physically within the cluster). Have to repair the operating system and reinstall the virtio drivers to recover the disk. This happen often, can i check if there are anyone who have experience it and also have a resolution to it. I have did some research online. Seem like its the VirtIO having problem . Will need to install the latest KVMnet drivers but i do not if this actually applies on AHV (as its based out on KVM) . Appreicate any inputs

Flow Security Central (FSC) is a SaaS product that detects and analyses security vulnerabilities in near real-time across multiple cloud environments. FSC supports the following capabilities.Visibility into Security Compliance: FSC provides businesses with a security heat map and complete visibility into the security posture of their environment using more than 800 automated audit checks based on the industry's best practices. Optimization of Security Compliance: FSC provides cloud operators with a one-click feature to easily fix their security issues. FSC also provides out-of-the-box security policies to automate the checks for common regulatory compliance policies, such as HIPAA, PCI-DSS, CIS, and so on. Control over Security Compliance: FSC helps you to set policies that continuously detect security vulnerabilities in real-time and automate the actions needed to fix them. You can also create your custom audit checks in FSC to meet your business-specific security compliance needs. Fo

Hello All, I have 01 NX-1065-G6 block including 3 nodes. AOS Version : 5.10.5 AHV Version : 20170830.279 After a power outage, I would like virtual machines to start automatically in a predefined order; for instance, domain controller first, Exchange server secondly, and so forth... With ESXi I can do this in a very simply manner. How to do this with AHV ? Please help. Thanks.

Hi, I'm a little bit new a Nutanix, however since last summer I can handle it very well Now I got a question wich I want to share here. I have to prepare a windows server. The requirments of the software wich will be hosted on this server preverene dedicated CPU and memory. So is this in the nutanix (AHV) installation posible to create a VM with his own dedicated CPU's (6cores) and memory?   Regards Peter

Nutanix Clusters provides a single platform that can span private and public clouds but operates as a single cloud using Prism Central enabling true hybrid cloud architecture. Nutanix Clusters provides on-prem workloads, a home in the cloud, offering native access to available AWS services without requiring you to reconfigure your software.You use the Nutanix Clusters console to deploy a cluster in a VPC in AWS, and not Foundation. After you launch a Nutanix cluster in AWS by using Nutanix Clusters, you can operate the cluster in the same manner as you operate your on-prem Nutanix cluster with no change in nCLI, the Prism Element and Prism Central web console, and APIs. You use the Nutanix Clusters console to create, hibernate, resume, update, and delete your Nutanix cluster. Following are the key points for running Nutanix cluster on AWSRuns on the EC2 bare metal instances.following EC2 bare metal instances: z1d.metal m5d.metal i3.metal i3en.metal Nutanix Clusters stack in AWS i

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?

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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