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My issue is related to installing the Direct Access role on a AHV VM running server 2016. Here is my environment. AOS: 5.6 Hypervisor: Nutanix 20170830.115 Windows OS: Server 2016 VirtIO Drivers 1.1.2 Server Imaged with SCCM I've deployed many Direct Access servers in the past and I am seeing very unique issues with trying to configure it on AHV for the first time. 1.) After configuring the role, the Tunnel adapter 6TO4 is NOT created 2.)After configuring the role, the Tunnel adapter IPHTTPSInterface is NOT created 3.)After configuring the role, the server fails to retrieve gpudpates 4.) Upon rebooting the server, the Distributed Transaction Coordinator service fails to start. However, if I deploy the EXACT same server image on a VMware VM, it works perfectly. Is there a known issue when deploying the DirectAccess role on a AHV(KVM) VM?

Hi, Im currently looking into a 3-node Cluster layout with NX-1155 hosts and PRO license as Remote Site for DR. I would like to go for 3 nodes instead of a single node configuration because it can withstand block/node failures. But Im trying to keep it low on the price scale. The one thing that keeps bothering me is that I want to be able to start a few user vms on the Remote Site. I know its possible but 64GB of RAM per host isnt much especially when the CVM blocks at least 24. It has to compete against a 3node CE installation which im not in favour because i would like to have support/production grade software. But I could get hosts that supports more RAM and start more VMs if I need to. What do you think?

Hello, like other post i know if exist an UPS brand to graceful shutdown Nutanix clusters in Vmware enviroment. I've read that about APC, is ti working? https://next.nutanix.com/blog-40/apc-powerchute-network-shutdown-is-certified-nutanix-ready-core-management-operations-19890 Thanks in advance

Can any one high light or point me the core technical differences between AFS and native file services solution??

Nutanix Tech Marketing Engineer Andy Daniel wrote up a short paragraph recently as an overview to the Storage efficiency features including compression. Share what you are doing for your different workloads in your environments (Nutanix or otherwise). -- To optimize storage capacity and accelerate application performance, the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric uses data efficiency techniques such as deduplication, compression, and erasure coding. They are intelligent & adaptive, and in most cases, require little or no fine-tuning. In fact, two levels of post-process compression are enabled in conjunction with cold data classification by default on new shipping clusters. Because they’re entirely software driven, it also means existing customers can take advantage of new capabilities and enhancements by upgrading AOS. DSF provides both inline and post-process compression to maximize capacity. Many times, customers incorrectly associate compression with reduced performance, but this

Hello everyone What is important to be aware of migrating Windows VM from ESXi to AHV?Is the version of AOS important? Anything else? Please help me.

I have recently upgraded my vCenter from 6.0 -> 6.5u1, and I'm not looking to upgrade my ESXi 6.0u3 installs to 6.5u1. My first attempt was to use one-click hypervisor upgrade, and I was able to uploading the ISO and MD5 checksum, but the pre-upgrade check errors out pretty quickly with a fairly generic error message saying "unable to determine version of bundle." Did a few re-download and re-upload attempts to verify my file integrity but the error persisted. I then tried to do the upgrade old-school style using VUM which is conveniently baked into my VCSA as of 6.5, and I got another generic error message inside of update manager, "The upgrade contains the following set of conflicting VIBs:" with nothing but blank space following the colon. Typically I would have expected to see an individual VIB called out in list form, but there is just nothing there. I am fully patched to current using Nutanix LCM, so I suspect it is probably one of the LSI HBA updates that LCM has slipped in

Hi All, I'm trying to take an image level backup on Hyper-V nutanix by Networker (EMC backup appliance). It succeeds to backup the VM but fails to backup the config files and the below error shows up (Most probably it is a nutanix access issue): ============================================= suppressed 3077 bytes of output.Creating files/directories on container template for VC_FS_MPATH_MFILES backup.Backup of Hyper-V config files failed with error Unable to get size and security information for \?UNC**Container name**@{531954875}w-test-01Snapshots5445BBE0-9B98-4E91-814F-59035D01C282.xml, reason = The specified server cannot perform the requested operation...Save-set ID '2402477366' (client '** Client name ** ': save-set 'APPLICATIONS:Microsoft Hyper-Vw-test-01ConfigFiles') is aborted.nsrnmmsv: APPLICATIONS:Microsoft Hyper-Vw-test-012D20C6CE-9416-4F18-8D14-50E2863D5D62 level=full, 15 MB 00:02:56 1 filePerforming the cleanup of 'APPLICATIONS:Microsoft Hyper-Vw-test-01' to avoid inconsist

We wanted to look at deploying teradata on to our vmware / nutanix environment. Does anyone have expereince with this? I'm hearing that Teradata does nto support nfs for datastores when virtualized, but the way nutanix handles disks negates a lot of the typical nfs problems. Are there any best practices to follow for teradata, and has anyone had experience with this?

Hello, New to Nutanix. I'm trying to add VM's to a protection domain via the webconsole, but some VM's I want to add aren't showing up. What's interesting is on the VM sumary page in Prism shows I have 66 VM's, but vCenter shows 81. Is there an easy explanation for this? I am on Esx 5.5 and AOS 4.5.2 Thanks!

Is there a definitive list of guest operating systems that are supported on AHV?

Is anyone using compression? If so, for which workloads and what is the experience like on your cluster?

Hi, We are runnning PC at 5.5.0.2 & NX cluster with AOS 5.5. While uploading meta & binary it showing error as "NOS binary version is incompatible with Registered PC" whereas on software upload showing warning as "There was a problem in retrieving the compatibility information. Please make sure that the upgrade version is compatible with your PC version."

Hi... I can't create a Instance in Availiable Zone on openstack portal with this error. PS: Hypervisor is an AHV on Nutanix Hardware with Nutanix openstack component (OVM)

Is it possible to download AHV vm disk in AOS 5.5 using 2222 scp?

Hi, In 5.5 when you upload image using prism central it gets uploded at selfservice container. If I want to create different container using image stored in selfservice container how to achieve that?

Ok Everyone, I am fairly new to the Nutanix system as our company recently decided to upgrade all server hardware to a Hyper-Converged system. Because of this, my knowledge of the backupsnapshot systems used by Nutanix is very limited, so please bear with me. So heres the issue; yesterday afternoon one of UPS burned itself up and caused a sudden power outage in our core datacenter. This location houses our primary Nutanix 4 node cluster. This is also the location where all employee profiles are stored using the Nutanix File Server system. After power was restored and th Nutanix system powered back up (took roughly 30mins) all services seemed to be restored. The next morning however, we started recieving calls about users not being able to login to the system. They are getting errors about network profiles not being available. Quicking checking the HomeShare location, we quickly determined the users home profile folder is suffering some issues. Properties shows 0bytes and all tabs a

Hi, we're starting to look at using Spark on our Nutanix cluster. Not in a huge way but to run some ETL processes in parallel. I'm under pressure to install Hadoop, or at least HDFS on the cluster but the entire concept of adding a distributed, resilient "filesystem" (actually I think it's more an object store) on top of the one already provided by Nutanix seems somewhat off. Is there a recommended way of doing this? I know that containers are exported to ESXi via NFS. Would that be usable? Would that be able to leverage stargate to access from anywhere? All I really need is a globally available volume shared between all my nodes.

Hello all, can i use Veeam Replication from VMware ESXi Environment to Nutanix AHV Environment ? is that applicable Thanks

Hey you splunkers – with Splunk conf right around the corner, bet you are all jazzed up and ready for the show. Wanted to let you know that Nutanix is participating in our first ever Splunk Conf and we are sure excited to be here. We have some amazing giveaways and some exciting events planned for the week. We have demos at our booth #G10, a Breakout Session at 12:05 on Tuesday Sep 26, 2017 and a great Happy Hour on Wednesday Sep 27 from 6:00- 8:00 PM. First off, if you don’t know Nutanix- we are a company founded with a vision to simplify the datacenter. Making it super easy and efficient to run Splunk software with the performance and flexibility you need to solve your business challenges and focus on the app, not the infrastructure, is the continuation of that original vision. We are pronounced “Newt-Anix” and no we are not a health cereal and granola company, we are an amazing technology Enterprise Cloud Company. For those of you who know us, you probably already love all our g

Hi All, (Async DR, Nutanix-to-Nutanix) One of our customer are moving their DRC site to a new location, which will require IP addresses reconfiguration (to a totally different set of IPs) to their DRC Nutanix cluster. As there are already current PD snapshots in the DRC cluster (~5TB disk space), they wouldn't want to lost them upon IP addresses reconfiguration/DRC relocation. Kindly advise for any risk; and if there are risks to current PD snapshots' availability/reliability, kindly advise for any workaround.

Hi I found the KB below stating you can't virtualize domain controllers on Nutanix Hyper-V. https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/kbs/details?targetId=kA032000000TTGWCA4 Quote: "Why? Because Hyper-V wants to contact the AD server before it can power up any VM on Nutanix storage, and the AD server would not be available because the VM cannot be booted." I am of the understanding that this might have been a thing in up until 2008 R2, but this should not be a problem when running Hyper-V on 2012 R2. Anyone that could shed some light on the matter? Would like to call the support line, but that is not an option right now since it has nothing to do with our own nutanix nodes. EDIT: Solved. Found out it is due to the SMB3 share of the nutanix cluster, which requires authentication from the domain.

When will Hyper-V 2016 be compatible?

Hi, While tring to upgrade PC from 5.5 to 5.5.0.2 getting error as "Cannot upgrade PC cluster with non-PC image Failed to find version 5.5.0.2 in proto."

Post depoying Prism Element 5.5 we added Nutanix cluster which are running AOS 5.1.3 & AOS 5.1.2. But while launching element from central it shows error unable to access prism element. This happens with IE & Chrome