Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

I cant seem to find any info in the manual on how to manage consistency groups assigned to entities?

Can I get official documents / links from nutanix that PCI DSS is compliance with.

Configuring data protection and disaster recovery solution in your Nutanix environment is seamlessly simple and interesting. What if you have configured a remote site and have configured all the settings but still you are not sure regarding the configuration.   Have you configured the vstore mapping correctly? Have you configured the network mapping correctly? Is there a check which can help me verify all the remote site configuration? Nutanix Cluster Check provides a check which helps you to verify the mapping configuration of a remote site.   Give the following Knowledgebase article a read to know more about the check. KB-3335 Give the following documentation a read regarding best practises of DATA PROTECTION AND DISASTER RECOVERY to understand the configuration and limitations in-depth.DATA PROTECTION AND DISASTER RECOVERY   

Inquiring if Possible to create Data Protection Async DR of VM that also backing up by Veeam Availability for Nutanix at the same time or different schedule? Or what if I will use Agent Base Veeam Backup and had Data Protection Async DR?   Thanks in Advance.

i`m looking for technical document to configure AHV with Actifio sky. Anyone did that or is it compatible? i found that in 2017 Nutanix announced partnership but can`t find technical info. https://www.actifio.com/nutanix-actifio/#sthash.Jotd7mm3.dpbs

Hi All,   i want Plan a strategy as below. is this possible using Nutanix and  Azure cloud.  replication from Onprem to Cloud (Azure- GOV) Another primary site (Azure ) will replicate to Azure cloud Both primary - ( On-Prem and Azure ) will connect to interconnect.

Let's say you're running a huge infrastructure of 10 pretty big SQL VMs and just shifted your infrastructure to Nutanix. You must be bewildered and confused regarding the best practices of SQL in Nutanix and how can you improve the performance. For most SQL server databases, there is nothing that needs to be done in order to successfully run on Nutanix.  SQL servers with small DBs are normal and okay but what about larger workloads?Do we have some best practices guide that can help us improve our performance?Yes, we have some general recommendation for running SQL workloads. Try giving the following Knowledgebase articles a read to understand the configuration and recommended settings to improve performance of SQL workloads.KB-3532KB-1833 Want to know the best practices for different SQL workloads. Try giving the following solution documentations a coffee read.   Microsoft SQL Server    MySQL on Nutanix   PostgreSQL HammerDB on SQL You can try giving the following blog a read which s

I am trying to implement SLB, or LACP, rather than A-B. To do this seems to require using either the manage_ovs show_bridges or list port {br0 | bond0} command. Other then the Command_Ref-AOS and AHV_Admin-Guid, where can more information be found ? I am getting a `ERROR kvm.py:488 failed to execute ....` error.

Hi All,   One of my customer doing POC Nutanix right now. They create VM with application that use for Exam Online. So they set Public IP on that VM where their student can access for Exam from outside. Suddenly for 2 days the VM active, they found on their router that VM consume almost 500 Mbps internet bandwith usage. They already have that application on non-Nutanix server and not find any issue related.   Is there any application or service or something on Nutanix platform consume internet bandwith that we don’t know?

Hi !I want to make an image of a windows server on the ABS disk. How can I copy the file to images on CVM to start migrate the Fysical server to Virtual. WinSCP is so slow so it will take 6-7 hours. To write it to ABS iSCSI it is fast but only problem to copy it to AOS. File system is NTFS.thanks!-Kim W-

HiI am new in Nutanix , would you please explain for me the below stats , and what its performance in VMs performance , the cache stats screen i got it while the backup is running ?  

In our previous posts, we briefly explored some basics of vdisk management on AHV via Acropolis cli (acli). You can explore further namespaces in acli by logging on to any CVM and entering the acli shell.In some scenarios you may need to move disk from IDE to SCSI bus or vice versa. Sample scenarios including but not limited to:VM does not boot due to missing SCSI driver.  In such scenario disk can be converted to IDE to install missing driver and then move back to SCSI. Wrong disk type was used during VM creation. Disk index should be changed due to application requirements.From the AHV Best Practices Guide:Nutanix recommends using SCSI-based disks wherever possible for maximum performance. We can use acli to change a virtual machine configuration, in this case a vm’s disk BUS Type.We would need the following info:Source VM Name or VM UUID Source VM DISK UUID (uuid of the vDisk with the incorrect BUS type) bus=target bus (for e.g. the new BUS type we want this vDisk to use, scsi / ide

Is there an option to remove/detach a drive from a virtual machine? Cant seem to find it or look it up anywhere neither gui nor cli 😕

Understanding and knowing where a Virtual Machine stores its vDisk is important for Admins. In our previous post we explored a couple of ways, we can use to find where Virtual Machine vDisks are stored on a AHV / AOS Cluster. Quick Recap:VM Disks (vDisks) are stored in a Container on AOS Cluster Acropolis service is responsible for all VM Operations Acropolis service offers a powerful interface called acli acli offers TAB Completion acli can be executed from any CVM in the cluster, for VM info operationsIn this post we will first find the vDisk of a given virtual machine and then use WinSCP to connect to the cluster and download the vDisk.Summary of Steps required:List VM Information via Acropolis CLI acli (ssh nutanix@cvm: acli vm.get <vm-name>) Find the Disk UUID associated with the VM vDisk Find the name of the Container hosting VM Disks Connect via WinSCP to download the vDiskFind the vDISK & Container Name:Using acli, we will list the disks associated and their uuids:nut

Hi I’m trying to find out if anyone has tried or is running SAS Grid on Nutanix? We have a SAS consultant working with us but they have no experience of running SAS on a Nutanix cluster. Any information would be gratefully received 😃

Getting the following error “VSS Scripts Not Installed” in your Nutanix environment with the description “VSS software or pre_freeze/post_thaw Scripts Not Installed”.Confused about VSS and the above-mentioned scripts?Let us help you understand the use of VSS for a snapshot!When you are enabling the Nutanix Guest tool, the following features VSS and Application consistent snapshot is enabled by default.Nutanix native in-guest VmQuiesced Snapshot Service (VSS) agent is used to take application-consistent snapshots for all the VMs that support VSS. This mechanism takes application-consistent snapshots without any VM stuns (temporary unresponsive VMs) and also enables third-party backup providers like CommVault and Rubrik to take application-consistent snapshots on the Nutanix platform in a hypervisor-agnostic manner. What’s the use of pre_freeze/post_thaw then? Within a Windows VM, NGT will use the Microsoft VSS writer built into the OS to quiesce the VM to take the app consistent snapsho

We are in the process of setting up a new fileserver using AHV and Windows 2019. Our current physical server has one larger 2TB drive letter for all file storage with 3-4 various shares. My question is would it make any difference to keep this same setup with AHV, 2TB drive attached to the VM for storage for files, or would it be better to have 2-3 smaller attached storage drives?

Nutanix offers compatibility with all major hypervisors (Hyper-V, ESXi, XEN) to be able to host virtual machines on it and leverage the benefits of a truly distributed scale out storage fabric.Nutanix qualifies all releases of 3rd Party hypervisors in order to ensure smooth operations for customers using the respective hypervisors.From the Nutanix Support FAQs:For hypervisor releases:For Major/Minor hypervisor releases (eg ESXi 6.5, Windows Server 2016 Build 14393) the goal is to qualify within 90 days of the software GA release date. Nutanix may qualify the latest hypervisor Major/Minor release in conjunction with the latest (or upcoming) AOS release first. Nutanix advises customers to wait until any Major/Minor release is qualified by Nutanix prior to deployment.Please make sure to visit the following link in order to read more on timelines and support policy for 3rd Party hypervisors : https://www.nutanix.com/support-services/product-support/faqs

 Physical Windows Server to Virtual conversion (P2V for AHV) Depending on the number of physical servers in your environment, you might want to convert them tovirtual servers and migrate over to Nutanix AHV.  Nutanix Image Service supports VHD, VMDK, vDISK, IMG, qcow formats for disk images. Summary:1) Prepare the Physical Windows Server - Install Virtio Drivers from:    Nutanix Portal > Downloads >  Tools & Firmware > Virtio2) Download Disk2VHD from Microsoft site:(https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/disk2vhd)3) Convert the Disk or Disks (Make sure to select "bootable" for the appropriate disk)4) Upload the Converted Disk to Nutanix Cluster via Image service Uploading VHD to the Cluster via Image Service:1) You can upload via the browser or2) Image service also allows for uploading files via http source (existing or new web-server required) Once the converted VHD is uploaded to the Image Service, we can now create a new VMCreate a New VM:Create the new

We’re in the process of testing Veeam for AHV on our NTNX running AOS 5.10.  So far with Windows issues we have had very few issues and we worked them out quickly.   However with a Linux VM running Ubuntu we’re getting errors on the Nutanix where the snapshot is checking for pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts.  We’ve attempted a variety of ways to get those scripts in place, but it seems that there is no clear path.   Does anyone else have experience with Veeam for AHV and backing up Linux VMs? Does anyone have any info on setting up the pre-freeze and post-thaw scripts?  While we have some experience with this on Linux we’re certainly not experts. 

Running virtual machines inside another virtual machine (also known as Nested Virtualization) is not presently supported in Nutanix AHV.  This is documented in the KB titled “Configuring VM to run nested hypervisor”

I have been trying to create a Windows Server VM. whenever I create the VM I can't see a drive where I can install the windows server. has anyone else experienced this?

Netbackup 8.1 was released yesterday. One of the features is "NetBackup for Nutanix – Parallel, scale-out backups of Nutanix clusters". Seems to only support full backups. There also is a requirement of a Linux backup host of client: https://www.veritas.com/content/support/en_US/doc-viewer.18716246-126559472-0.v127139966-126559472.html Backup_Host= The backup host must be a Linux machine. The backup host can be a NetBackup client or a media server. Application_Server=

We have a dozen or so VMs/appliances that do not support AHV and thus cannot be migrated over to our new AHV cluster that runs 95% of our servers. We would like to expose a container/Volume Group from Nutanix to the VMware hosts as NFS datastores to build these VMs/Appliances on. Our goal is to then replicate that Container/Volume Group to our DR Nutanix cluster and then connect our DR VMware cluster for the same VMs/Appliances to then use as well incase of failover. We have gotten conflicting information from all parties and wanted to know if anyone was already doing this and what your results are? These VMs/Appliances would have fairly high IO.

Netbackup 8.2 has announce release of NetBackup Accelerator support for Nutanix AHV. What is Accelerator :- If the client has no previous backup, NetBackup performs a full backup and creates a track log. The track log contains information about the client’s data, for comparison at the next backup. At the next backup, NetBackup identifies data that has changed since the previous backup. To do so, it compares information from the track log against information from the file system for each file. For NTFS and ReFS file systems, it also uses the Windows change journal to help identify the data that has changed since the last backup. Accelerator uses the Windows change journal in two ways: To check for changes in the file system metadata, and to help detect which files have changed since the last backup The NetBackup client sends to the media server a backup stream that consists of the following: The client’s changed blocks, and the previous backup ID and data extents (block offset and size