Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

So how much do you run your cluster memory usage? Currently we are at 50% usage but still adding VM's. My boss wants to run this to 100% and doesn't understand why I keep telling him this is a bad idea. I am trying to keep it at 2/3 to 3/4 usage of capacity. Am I right or wrong on this? I am doing a bad job of explaining this to my boss who doesn't seem to believe me so do you guys have any resources that can help me explain this? Right now we are running application servers and no core functions but we are looking to migrate our DHCP servers. We have 1.1 TB of memory capacity running at 51% usage. CPU usage is not a problem running at about 12%. Storage is also fine. We are running 6x Dell 740XC if that helps.

Has anyone successfully been able to get HyperV(or ESXi) nested under AHV? I do see nested KVM VM's are supported but no mention of anything else. Only reason for exploring this is to get Cisco Umbrella VA's working under AHV so i don't have to re-purpose an old server to run HyperV/ESXi.

Hi, Looking to see if it is possible to manually deploy the CVM to Azure for use with Cloud connect? Also what is the reliance on the classic deployment model? Why can't the CVM be deployed using the Resource Manager model? Microsoft have been pushing customers away from the classic model over the last few years, its likely that the majority of customer with mature Azure deployments won't be using the classic model.

We are moving away from VMware over to Acropolis and I was wondering what others have been using to backup their VMs under Acropolis, 3rd party wise? Under VMware, we had been using Veeam, but this is no longer a choice.Any comments/suggestions would be helpful.

Does anyone have thoughts on how backup and recovery will work with the Acropolis hypervisor? Our company is definitely interested in moving in this direction, but the simplicity of Veeam B&R has been great, and I do not want to move away from that unless there is a solution that provides all of veeams features.

Hello - I'm new to Nutanix and am in the middle of taking the online 5.5 course in the education portal. I have a simple question about Cloud connect: In the section about Cloud Connect features the very first thing you read is "data transmitted is already deduplicated and users can choose to enable compression on the local storage container.." Yet when I look at the section regarding General Recommendations and Limitations I see the following: "It is not recommended to enable deduplication on the source cluster..." Can you please help me understand this? This looks like a complete contradiction.

Hi I'm looking to created clustered files servers using Windows Server Failover Clustering - VMs will be in-guest, i'm using AHV. My understanding that presenting the Nutanix storage via iSCSI to WSFC servers is supported however i'm confused about how to setup the networking and the Nutanix ABS documentation doesn't make this clear. I'm used to creating a separate storage network / VLAN for all storage traffic however the iSCSI target IP address is recommended to be on the same network as the CVMs / all of the Nutanix infrastructure. So the question is do i create a separate network for storage and have it route to the iSCSI target IP address, or have the iSCSI initiators on the same network as the iSCSI target / data services IP? It wouldn't seem logical to mix the CVM traffic with storage traffic, however also not great to have to route storage traffic. Thanks Adam

Tim Wallace, who leads out public sector solutions marketing efforts has a Nutanix community blog coming out talking about the value of Xi Leap for Public Sector including education institutions. Nutanix also has numerous service provider partners (www.nutanix.com/x-powered) that offer Nutanix powered DRaaS for customer's hosted and on-prem deployment. What are some of the reasons why you would consider DRaaS and Xi Leap in your environment? Share with your peers.

We attempted to migrate our ODNS as well as setup new VM's in AHV by extracting the vmdk's but each time we get the below screen on boot. Has anyone else successfully got the ODNS VA to run in AHV? I've tried editing the vm's xml file to change the video type and vram but no luck as of yet:

Hi guys, we're planning to move/migrate my MS SQL workload from physical standalone host to a new Nutanix cluster. We already engaged with local Nutanix representative for this. However, we encountered a few hurdles in terms of performance during and we can't be sure whether we have the right sizing for our performance requirement. Current Production Physical host:- Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2690v3 @ 2.6GHz (single socket, 12C 24T) RAM: 96GB (However only 64GB usable for the MS SQL 2008R2 DB) Disks: Database MDF resides in a SSD RAID 5 diskgroup. (6 disks), OS and LDF etc resides in other disk groups, SAS disks 10K, 15K RAID 10, RAID 1 etc. Test Unit ( 3 nodes):- Processor: Intel Xeon E5-2650 v4 @ 2.2 GHz (dual socket, 24C 48T) per node RAM: 512GB per node Disks: 6 x 1.6TB Intel S3610 SATA (All Flash) Hypervisor: AHV 5.9.2.4 Network: 10GbE RJ45 SQL Test VM created in Nutanix test

Keep getting an error while trying to deploy Server 2016 on AHV using SCCM. Has anything changed recently? I used VirtIO v.1.1.4. Do you have to have NGT in sccm also?

I'm trying to deploy FortiAuthenticator v5.5 VM but running into issues on AHV. I've tried creating the VM using the files from Fortinet but no instructions when using AHV per this guide: https://s3.amazonaws.com/fortinetweb/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/5795878a-1f78-11e9-b6f6-f8bc1258b856/fac-vm-install-guide-43.pdf The files I've used are the following: KVM - fackvm.qcow2, datadrive.qcow2 Vmware - fac.vmdk, da

Anyone successfully running Fortinet FortiSandbox VMs on AHV in their environment. The VM itself is able to deploy, but it fails to create its on VMs to test executables on.

Can we Testing or Demo of Flow on Community Edition

Are there any VMware 6.7 "gotchas" that I need to worry about before upgrading? We're on 5.10.2 running on Dell XC series for a little context. Thanks!

I’m planning to move a Windows Server 2012 R2 Datacenter Edition VM from Hyper-V 2012 R2 to AHV on AOS 5.10.2 today. I have created a similar (but not cloned) test VM in the environment and migrated it yesterday with no issues. UEFI worked fine. Today in my final prep I’m seeing that in newer versions of the Nutanix documentation (AOS 5+) that this migration and VM type (AHV with UEFI) is listed as Limited Support and “Not recommended for Production”. Is this a showstopper? Are other customers moving important production Gen 2 UEFI Hyper-V VMs to AHV? Scenario Support Level Generation 2 VM (UEFI) migrated from Hyper-V to AHV Limited support. For information about configuring UEFI for VMs migrated from Hyper-V, see

We are using the ASync Data Protection between two sites to replicate our VMs. But that is only taking a new snapshot of an existing VM and replicating that snapshot. I would like to have replication setup for some of VMs so that the VM and all of the snapshots we've made of it outside of Data Protection are replicated as well. We may need a very specific state of a VM at our remote site. Using only the Async DP snapshots won't fully meet our needs. Is there any way to do this with the existing Nutanix software? I'd rather not purchase something third party to solve this problem.

Hello all I'm trying to establish the optimal disk layout for a VMware MS SQL 2016 2 node guest failover cluster that will have a single SQL instance hosting multiple small to medium sized databases. Unfortunately we don't really have the funds for licensing to do the recommended approach of creating lot of small VMs to host these databases, so we need to consolidate where possible. I've been reading though the Nutanix SQL 2016 best practice guide and it's raised a few questions. I've decided to allocate multiple vdisks specifically for database files, so I'd have a few database files to each vdisk instead of one vdisk with all the database files on it. I'm assuming this approach might be better due to each vdisk having a 6GB Oplog allocation and so more vdisks would prevent a single oplog from quickly over filling? Is there any there real a benefit here to having more vdisks to spread the databases

So over a year ago, there were reports of AHV turbo coming to us in 5.5. We are now at 5.10 and there have been no reports of VirtIO drivers for Windows supporting MultiQueuing. Any ideas as to why?

Wanted ask the community for some feedback on the topic of SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support. My fellow Nutanix Solutions team members @gregwhite @Chris Paap, myself and others were discussing about SQL Server 2008/R2 End of Support and how that would impact IT? Can you help us by sharing your thoughts, actions, tools around DB/app upgrades, migration etc related to SQL Server 2008/R2? You can take the survey here: https://www.surveymonkey.com/r/VJ2NWXS

Hi all, I have a customer running two DCs, using veaam to replicate VMs between sites. They are renewing the infrastructure at Site 1 and are looking to adopt EMC storage for native (recoverpoint) host aware SAN to SAN replication. Until they update the infrastructure running on site 2 they will need to continue using Veaam in the interim. I'd like to recommend they take a look at Nutanix however first need assurances that they can continue using Veaam to replicate between ESX on Nutanix & ESX on legacy. The idea would be to then go full Nutanix at both sites (once site 2 is refreshed), swap out to AHV and live the cross site replication dream 🙂 Advice appreciated! Thanks Patrick

A customer asked.... Is there a sort of table to compare the Acropolis version with che KVM corresponding one? Thank you!

Hi , Anyone would know if RHEL is supported to run on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) ?

Interested in the cost for Xi LEAP. I cannot find any estimated costs for this new service and need to know how it is priced. Anyone have information on this?

The following shows the available Load Balacing options currently available in vSphere 5.5 along with the recommended configuration for Nutanix environments for both Virtual Distributed Switches (VDS) and Virtual Standard Switches (VSS). NIC Teaming & Failover Recommendation