Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

Hello Nutanix Community,I’m reaching out for help after spending a significant amount of time troubleshooting an issue where a Nutanix cluster cannot complete initialization. I would truly appreciate any insight from the community, as I believe I have exhausted all standard troubleshooting paths.This cluster was previously created successfully and had been running in production without issues.However, due to security-related changes in our IT infrastructure, we were required to re-address the entire environment, including: CVM IPs Hypervisor IPs IPMI IPs Because of this requirement, I intentionally chose the cleanest and officially recommended approach, which was: Reclaim licenses Stop the cluster Destroy the cluster Rebuild the cluster from scratch using Nutanix Foundation This was not an accidental failure during a first-time installation.The issue only started after performing a controlled teardown and reinstallation due to the IP address changes. Support experience and re

Hi.Currently, virtual machine A running on cluster A (consisting of three machines) is being remotely backed up to cluster B (consisting of one machine) using Prism Element's protection domain.In this state, is it possible to remotely back up virtual machine B running on cluster B to cluster A using the protection domain?Is this a problem?kind regards.

What does this nutanix license concurrency means in Nutanix. I bought the Nutanix NCM-Pro and EUC licenses and it was committed that the licenses will be based on the number of concurrent users logged into VDI.Can some please let me know if there is any report where it shows the number of concurrent users in prism central.

A warm happy new year to all Nutanix community.As a Nutanix SE role one of my objective is to collect customer feedback not only on features and functionality but also for UI and UX (user experience).I often get some user interface feedbacks from customers while doing HPOCs or Demos, but I would like to understand if you can help us improve even more. I would like to understand what are the main areas where our graphical interface could be a little better. ⚽🏀🎾 I want to play a little game with everyone would like to join 🏏🏈🏐 [Game Rules]Post a screenshot of our interface (feel free to blur out some information) Highlight some areas of the screenshot Write down where the screenshot is coming from (PC, PE, Security Central, Nutanix Central) Send a comment on what could be improved referring to highlighted areasMy turn:From Prism Central I would like that these columns in VMs view would be more customizable with additional parameters like for example: Disk space occupied By VMs; Cate

Guys has anyone used any tools for Disaster recovery that will handle  AHV ,and Hybrid HCI and 3 tier Esxi.  

Hello, This question came to mind when i was exporting  a VM . Where the OVA file is actually stored?because i didn’t get to choose the storage container where the OVA file will exported to? 

Hi,I decided to write my own Terraform provider/resource for managing a StoragePolicy as the Nutanix provider does not include this capability yet. When writing the delete/destroy function, I followed the Golang example in the API page: https://developers.nutanix.com/api-reference?namespace=datapolicies&version=v4.2#tag/StoragePolicies/operation/deleteStoragePolicyById However, I found it failed with 500 using the example. After debugging I found that the client expects a map with string and pointers to string for its values, not actual strings (https://github.com/nutanix/ntnx-api-golang-clients/blob/datapolicies-go-client/v4.2.1/datapolicies-go-client/api/storage_policies_api.go#L64)  However, the example provided suggests to use an actual var, not the address:Adding the address to the map will allow the value to correctly be extracted and the delete will work:notice the “&”I can’t see where to contact for updating the example, but perhaps someone can pass it on. 

Hi. New to Nutanix. We have a 3-node test cluster to evaluate. We are at RF-2 (1N/1D). I am hoping someone can clarify some things for me. I know I can lose 1-node or 1-drive and I will still have data availability. My question is this:If I lose 1-node will data-resilency be rebuilt in that I could actually lose a drive in 1 of the two remaining healthy nodes and still have data available? My thought process is Curator will simply rebuild the data to another healthy drive on the same node?I am trying this now where I cleanly shut a node down, and after 44 minutes Element still shows data-resilency as critical. I would assume since there is tons of free space the resilience would move to “OK” and I could tolerate a drive failure. I must really be misunderstanding something, I am certain I have read that would be work. I just cannot lose a drive with the node down during the rebuild process. Thank you for clarification!

Greetings,In our lab, we have an old Nutanix cluster of 4 NX-8155-G6 machines. I am looking at installing Open Source AHV and AOS however CE may be our solution as well. It looks like the only way to install AHV on the appliances is using Foundation. So two tracks:AHV on the old cluster and install with Foundation Install CE on the old clusterDoes anybody have experience installing CE on older Nutanix Hardware?

Our current setup is physical prod servers and VMs are in 10. 172.31.40.1 segment and DR physical servers are in 172.31.30.1 segment and DR VMs are in 10. 172.31.40.1 segment and we configured Async DR setup. Currently we configured IPsec VPN in HQ and DR through FortiGate firewall. If production site  down, how can we access the production VM servers in DR site. This is our concern please provide solution for this design.

I’m configuring Nutanix DR with zero compute but when i try to deploy MST from marketplace i receive the following errors:Credential is invalidVariable new_secret_keySecret value for variable is emptyVariable new_access_keySecret value for variable is emptyCredential default_credSecret value for credential is emptyI’ve tried to configure default credentials from self service but with no luck.thanks in advance

Hi all , Now i am deploying a new nutanix cluster with 10 all flash nodes and each node has 4 ssd disks so during my search in nutanix docs i noticed that nutanix marked up to 4 ssd disks in each node as a metadata disk so in my case it can sign at least 1 ssd disk for metadata and this disk can not be used for regular VMs Data  my question is  one of four ssd disks will be marked as a metadata disk and cannot be used for regular VMs Data ?

Hi All, Regarding restoring Linux IP, it becomes different from the original,I think it's because after the restore, the Mac differently than before,so the settings are different too. Is there a way to make the IP address the same as before after the restore?

Hi All, I would like to ask: If cluster is not joined to Prism Central, will it become lockout to login to the Prism Portal after the license expired. AHV, AOS: 6.10.1.12

Earlier, we tried deploying Prism Central on our newly rebuilt cluster. This isn’t a new Nutanix model—it’s an older one. I wanted to get your insight regarding an error we encountered during the deployment of the instance. We uploaded the tar and metadata, but the deployment consistently stalls at 91%. Previously, deploying through Prism Central was straightforward, so I’m not sure why we can’t access the GUI now.The VM appears to deploy successfully, and I can SSH into it. All services are running fine, NTP is working, but our newly rebuilt DNS might be a major factor in this issue—I’m not entirely sure if this is causing the problem. I forgot to take a screenshot, but the failure showed an “MT timeouts during deployment” or something similar.

Hi everyone,A customer currently operates a VMware vSAN cluster at their primary site and is planning to deploy a new HCI platform at a secondary site. One of the key requirements is that the new HCI cluster must be able to replicate workloads to the existing VMware vSAN environment.My question is the following:Is it feasible to propose Nutanix with AHV for the secondary site while keeping VMware vSAN at the primary site? If yes, which third-party solution would be recommended to ensure reliable replication between Nutanix AHV and VMware vSAN? If not, what alternative HCI architecture would you recommend to meet this requirement? Thanks in advance for your insights and feedback.

Hi All, Good day to you.Recently, I’ve encountered an issue of unable to image the nodes with Foundation for Windows. Only one of the nodes was completed and the rest 2 nodes failed with fatal: waiting for installer to boot up. Can someone suggest me how to solve this issue? AOS: 6.10.1.7AHV: el8.nutanix.20230302.103032 P.S all node have the same hardware specification but the successful node have different BIOS version. Thanks,

Hi,This topic has already been discussed several times but no solutions applied (reconnecting, importing the module, prefixing the cmdlets ...).I’ve setup an isolated environment with PowerShell 7.5.4 and the Nutanix Powershell Module 2.1.1.I can connect to Prism Central but any Get-* command will end up with the error :“Object reference not set to an instance of an object”I cannot find a way to get the cmdlets to work.Any idea ?Best regards

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Hello,First post here!I previously developed an automation flow using the Nutanix V3 API that interacts with Prism Central and orchestrates the "Test Failover", "Failover" and "Clean Up" DR Actions for a specified list of Virtual Machines.For the V3 API version, I utilised both the "recovery_plans" and "recovery_plan_jobs" API endpoints.These do not appear to be present within the V4 API (not that I can find in the various V4 API documentation).Are there plans to add these and if so, are there any timescales for when these will be added?Thanks.Regards,Paul 

Hello All, A problem I've come across recently is that 2 nodes in a cluster do not show a bios version in the inventory nor do they recognize that there is an available update for their bios. While another node that is the same hardware does. I’ve follow KB 10833 a bit but i was hesitant to do a reset to default the ipmi just yet. Has anyone faced something similar?     

Hello Everyone,Iam learning NC2 on Azure from couple of months and preparing documents out of my learning, I need assistance in below queries if anyone can assist, would be really great !!! How do we manage Load Balancer Deployment in NC2 on Azure, Do we deploy LB in Hub VNET?  or how it is being deployed. Also How do we manage Firewall in NC2 on Azure.

I want to Install Nutanix on Dell power edge R740xd but i faced lots of error, there log screens show these errors When i Used nutanix foundation for windows the error i faced IPMItools is missing, i tried foundation on virtualbox but still ipmi can,t mount iso file What should I do to run this lab successfully 🤔

The Challenge: Security Doesn't Travel Well Picture this scenario: You've meticulously crafted security policies protecting your critical three-tier application. Everything is perfectly segmented—web tier locked down, app tier secured, database tier isolated. Then disaster strikes, or you need to perform planned maintenance. You initiate a live migration or failover to your disaster recovery site.Your application arrives safely at the destination. But what about your security?In many environments, security policies don't automatically follow workloads. Security teams are left scrambling to manually recreate policies at the destination, or they rely on custom scripts that must be re-run before each failover event. Even with scripts, there's no real-time verification that VMs remain protected during and after migration.A misconfigured security policy on the target site could leave your application exposed. A missing firewall rule could create an attack vector. A forgotten script executio

Hey Community 👋NC2 on Google Cloud is officially here — and it’s bringing the Nutanix Cloud Platform (NCP) to Google Cloud’s bare metal compute instances across the globe. This will not only enable organizations to build a hybrid cloud with another Hyperscaler, but it will also allow IT teams to consume Nutanix software through the Google Marketplace and accelerate their use of Google’s market leading AI and big data solutions. 🧭 What’s New?●  Google Cloud is now available in the NC2 Portal: Simply connect to your Google Cloud Project and provision a cluster, just like with AWS and Azure.●  NC2 should also be available in the Google Cloud Marketplace in the next few weeks. Stay tuned for more information on that!●  A Tech Note and User Guide are live on the support portal to help you understand how to get started.●  Move qualification: Get your NC2 migration from on premises ESXi and AHV started with Nutanix Move.●      NKP has already been qualified and is supported on NC2 on Go