Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

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

Hi guys, i have configured Active Directory As Authentication Method Using LDAPS,When i am testing User accounts from PE , results are success but i cannot log in to PE using AD credentials, “ Server Not Reachable “ , Please Advise if anyone knows whats wrong or how can i fix it, Thanks <33

We have accessed prism element dashboard, but when we click on ‘Register or create new prism central’. We are getting issue to deploy the microservices.   # ncli cluster info    Cluster Id                : 0006451c-8b67-1207-1f32-005056bae2ac::2247859509063770796    Cluster Uuid              : 0006451c-8b67-1207-1f32-005056bae2ac    Cluster Name              : CENUC    Cluster Version           : 6.8.1    Cluster Full Version      : el8.5-release-fraser-6.8.1-stable-a8aad732dfbfaa2b3bcea0b0c27fbd51d8480f4e    External IP address       : 172.29.30.3    Node Count                : 1    Block Count               : 1    Shadow Clones Status      : Enabled    Has Self Encrypting Disk  : no    Cluster Masquerading I... :    Cluster Masquerading PORT :    Is registered to PC       : false    Rebuild Reservation       : Disabled    Encryption In Transit     : Disabled    Is LTS                    : false    External Data Services... :    Support Verbosity Level   : BASIC_COREDUMP    Lock Down

I am working on setting up DR replication between two 3 node Nutanix clusters running AOS and AHV. Can someone help clarify something for me? It does not appear that you can replicate a PC VM, and the clusters can only be registered to a single PC instance. So:If the cluster hosting the PC VM were to go down, how would you be able to initiate a manual failover with the controlling PC VM also down?Do I need to stand up PC on each cluster and register each to a separate PC instance to avoid this single point of failure?Is bi-directional replication possible with two clusters registered to the same PC? It appears that once a protection policy is setup to replicate from cluster A-->B that A is no longer an option to setup as a replication target from cluster B.

Hi. It appears that you cannot backup PC to an AWS storage gateway, it must be able to reach AWS natively. Is this true? Thank you!

HiI was trying to deploy a single node AHV cluster on a HPE host. As previous task I’ve applied the latest Service Pack for Proliant and I’ve updated the ILO6 to the latest version 1.72 and configure the static network on ILO. Then I uploaded the AOS 7.3.1 and AHV 10.3.1.11 (latest releases) to the Foundation (windows app) and I’ve launched the deployment wizzard.The foundation process started but it crashed at 41% with the following errors: 2025-11-27 13:19:11,970Z imaging_step.py:123 DEBUG Setting state of <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(139.128.156.70) @ff10>) @f7c0> from PENDING to RUNNING2025-11-27 13:19:11,974Z imaging_step.py:159 INFO Running <ImagingStepValidation(<NodeConfig(139.128.156.70) @ff10>) @f7c0>2025-11-27 13:19:11,978Z cache_manager.py:133 DEBUG Cache MISS: key(common_validations_()_{'global_config': <foundation.config_manager.GlobalConfig object at 0x00000207A7A2FE20>})2025-11-27 13:19:11,982Z config_validator.py:312 INFO Validating

Hello all, I've come across an issue when attempting to create a VM via Prism central i get a fetch error below. Nonetheless i haven't found much on the issue and am turning to see if anyone has any insight. 

Hi everyoneI have to deploy a Metro Availability architecture for two AHV clusters (no ESXi involved) and I have several questions so I’d appreciate some feedback from those who have deployed similar setups. The main goal is to achieve the lowest possible RPO and RTO between two datacenters with a robust and simple architecture. Both clusters will be separated by about 100m on two separate buildings and they will be connected with FC cables (<5ms).As far as I know, only ESXi with vMSC supports true RTO = 0 However, since this environment is AHV-only, my understanding is that in a failover event the VMs from Site A would need to be powered on in Site B rather than running continuously on both sides... Is that correct?That being said, here you are the possible scenarios to deploy Metro Availability between both sites: Two AHV clusters in active–active mode, without an external Witness Two AHV clusters in active–active mode, with an external Witness (this one looks nice for me) Two

Hi all,I have a nested environment with a three-node cluster and also a one-node cluster with AOS 7.3.0.7 and AHV 10.0.1.1. When I tried to update AHV to any available version, the upgrade failed. Does anyone have advice to find a solution or experience with this issue?Thanks

Hi Community,Is there any best practice or guideline I can follow for naming VMs in Nutanix? For example, are there any restrictions on which characters can be used?

Hi. I am new to Nutanix. Our first cluster was pre-configured. We use two internal NTP appliances at the time, and we just purchsed a third. I was logging in to configure it and noticed some oddities.It appears first that I had to set add the new NTP server both to prism central and element. After I added it to Element this command on a CVM was accurate “ncli cluster get-ntp-servers” However the AHV hosts do not appear to get this new server from either prism central or element.  “sudo chronyc -n sources -v” confirmed the original 2 ntp servers were the only ones configured. I added the third and restarted chronyd and it showed up now and is syncing however moving on to the 2nd and 3rd AHV host, the chrony conf is much different. It has the ntp server as the first ntp host? Was this a mistake on part of the installer? I would assyme it should have the exact chroyd.thank you for any clarificaiton.

With the Starter license, am I able to configure asynchronous replication in both directions— from site A to site B and from site B to site A?

Hi Everyone, Just throwing this out there and was wondering how others have experienced this.We use VEEAM as our backup solution and were having some issues trying to move from ESXI to AHV. Every time we started a move using Nutanix Move we’d have an error about CBT not being enabled. Our resolution? Disabling CBT (yes disabling not enabling) using the following PowerCLI script!After we ran the script the move completes succesfully! (Make sure to run it before creating your migration plan)No clue if anyone has the same issues as us but if you do this might be a solution!Import-Module VCF.PowerCLIConnect-VIServer -Server YOUR.VCSA.SERVER$vm="YOUR.VM.NAME"$vmtest = Get-vm $vm| get-view$vmConfigSpec = New-Object VMware.Vim.VirtualMachineConfigSpec$vmConfigSpec.changeTrackingEnabled = $false$vmtest.reconfigVM($vmConfigSpec) Regards,Westy WeijtsDen Hartogh Logistics

Hi Folks,am updating my script for creating a snapshot and store in file device am currently using V3 prism central APIs and want to migrate to use V4 APIS. someone help me with the sample response of APIS in V3 and V4 for List VMS.V4: https://{pc-ip}:9440/api/vmm/v4.1/ahv/config/vmsV2 prism element:  $CLUSTER/PrismGateway/services/rest/v2.0/vms → am using this currently. any dummy VM response is fine just want to estimate the changes and complexity.

Hello Team,While deploying the cluster using Foundation Tool, is there any way to provide pre-reserved CVM names anywhere before initiating the cluster build process through this tool?If not, how can change the name of CVM (inside OS) after cluster got built? How much risky is this process? You feedback/help in this matter will be highly appreciated. -Anil 

Hello, I have installed a 2 Node cluster using nutanix foundation VM with witness node as a tie breaker in dell xc4510 and everything is running fine. I have created multiple production VM. I have an another host with same hardware configuration and want to convert 2 node to 3 node cluster. I want to know the best procedure to achieve this.

HiAs you know Windows server 2003 is not officialy supported with AHV or MOVE but using the following link I was able to migrate a VM with Windows Server 2003 from an old vCenter to a new AHV cluster. https://www.vmwaremine.com/2019/01/24/migrate-windows-2003-x86-to-nutanix-ahv/#sthash.8hpeCflP.T3i44mTW.dpbsThat being said, after migrating it thw VM works fine but I have a question regarding VMware tools and Nutanix Guest tools. 1. Is it mandatory to remove the VMware tools from the migrated VM or is it just a “aesthetic” matter?2. Is it mandaroty to install Nutanix Guest Tools? I mention this cause I wasnt able do to this error when loading the NGT CDROM ISO:​​​  Thanks  

Hi, we are new Nutanix customers coming from VMWare. I’ve migrated about 450 VM’s over and everything is going smoothly, however when it comes to Linux appliances I have some questions. On VMWare, vendors would send us an OVA which included VMWare tools baked into the appliance. I’m noticing that vendors who supply QCOW2’s, or even OVA’s if they don’t have a QCOW2 file, don’t have NGT baked into the image. When I ask the vendor how to install NGT, they say it’s not supported, even though on VMWare, they had VMWare tools supported.Is it typical for vendor linux appliances to not support NGT? How do I get VSS working on these appliances with NGT so that my backup solution can take app-consistent snapshots? Also, I hate looking in PC and seeing VM’s without any OS because NGT isn’t installed.

HiI have a customer with two VMware clusters, each one located in a different site (two separate buildings). I need to replace both environments with two Nutanix AHV clusters configured with Metro Availability (active-active).As part of the project, I must migrate the VMs from both VMware vCenters to the new AHV clusters using Nutanix MOVE. The AHV clusters have been sized so that either cluster can host the full workload, so the migration order is not a problem.However, physical rack space is an issue: Site A has enough rack space to install the new Nutanix nodes. Site B does not have space until the old VMware hosts are removed. Because of that, I’m considering different ways to sequence the work, and I’m not sure which approach is better.From what I understand, I should be able to enable Metro Availability either before or after migrating the VMs, and AHV Metro Availability can be enabled even when VMs are already running on both clusters. If that assumption is correct, these are

Hello evb,in a 3-host Nutanix Cluster (AOS 6.10,1 and AHV v.20230302.103003) I have one of the 3 hosts with the [/var] filled up at 92% (2.5GB on 2.9GB)The cluster is up’n’running and was OK until this warning raised by the ncc checks (v 5.1.0)Most of the space is used by:6565632 /var/log4502260 /var/log/sa2546588 /var/lib2406748 /var/lib/puppet2406072 /var/lib/puppet/reports2241772 /var/lib/puppet/reports/HOSTNAMEIn the last dir I have more than 90K [.YAML] files (of about 20KB each and created every 2 or 3 minutes, starting from the first host setup), while in the other 2 hosts I have only 14 [.yaml] files.File names are in the form yyyymmddhhmm.yamlWhat are they used for?Is it safe to delete the oldest ones?TIAPaolo