Nutanix Cloud Infrastructure

I'm looking for information about VM creation with REST API or Postman, and so far I can't find anything “good”, I find it strange because Nutanix always have very good information, but in this case I can't find much, neither videos, I know there is no Test Drive. But they should have some videos on this important topic.

Hello All,We have a Nutanix POC and I am playing around with the permissions. I am trying to create a role/category for our Cohesity backup. What entities are needed for the role. I assume cluster and VMs, but I am getting “Requested entity doesn’t exist” when trying to add the Nutanix source to Cohesity. It works fine when I add the source with a Prism Admin account. Can anyone point me to the proper permissions needed. TIA TJ

I want to setup LACP balance SLB but in the KB it only shows balance TCP? How to Enable, Disable, and Verify LACP on AHV hosts (nutanix.com)

Hi teams, I needed to change bonding mode in AHV from active-backup to active-active for my production cluster .can you help me by giving me the best practice 

From prism Central Element, I am trying to deploy Prism Central. When I go for create new Prism central through Prism Central Element GUI, it did not list out available versions. Instead, it just shows “No compactible versions for Deployment”. Following is what I have. I am using nutanix hardware.Version 6.8.1 - COMMUNITY LicenseNCC Version: 5.0.1LCM Version: 3.0.1.1 Not sure, how I can deploy prism central If I do not have binary. If I uncheck the option “Only show compatible versions”, it lists out following public version.pc.2023.4.0.2pc.2022.6.0.10pc.2022.6.0.11pc.2022.6.0.12 In that case, I had deployed pc.2023.4.0.2 but i never able to get GUI. I suspect the compatibility issue.Any help would be appreciated.

Our company is just starting on on our Nutanix journey, we are currently deployed in NC2 and have setup Oracle 8.9 VMs on AHV.  We have setup the Entra ID integration to the Nutanix Console, but we were looking to setup user authentication to log in to the local Oracle Linux 8.9 servers, but have not been able to find a runbook on how to do this if it is possible.  Can you integrate Azure Entra ID with a AHV VM that is running on NC2? The bare metal is running in EastUS.  Any assistance or direction would be greatly appreciated. 

Has anyone completed an integration using Azure Site Recovery to protect a Nutanix VM and performed a test failure to Azure with a successful failback to on-prem?  I have seen a couple of blogs on treating the Nutanix VM as physical, etc.  Just wondering if this is being used to success out here in the wild and any knowledge you may have gained.  Thank you kindly.

Any update on using copy/paste from our workstation/laptop into a VM Console of windows VM hoted on AHV cluster? How Do I Enable Copy and Paste in AHV? | Nutanix Community this would be a great feature to implement but it does not seem to be any information as to when this would be available and we would be deploying 3 new AHV Clusters so not sure if this is on the pipeline. thank you

Hi all,Today we have Set up a Windows file failover cluster.WE have configured a volume group with one vdisk for quorum and one volume group with two vdisks for data.Windows see the two disks in the second volume group seperately. WE have attached the volume groups directly to the Windows VM.Why is the volume group seen as seperate disks?Should it not be only one? Regards,Thomas  

when i issue this command there different foundation versionshow can i upgrade 10.11.12.35 to the same version of other cvmsallssh 'cat ~/foundation/foundation_version'================== 10.11.12.35 =================foundation-5.5-02013d8b================== 10.11.12.37 =================foundation-5.6.1-a98b2e5f================== 10.11.12.36 =================foundation-5.6.1-a98b2e5fnutanix@NTNX-16SM6C420270-B-CVM:10.11.12.36:~$ 

Nutanix environment supports FC sharing for the backup process

Hi all,I just setup a new AHV environment and was wondering if it still needed to change the passwords for the users:adminnutanix...on AHV!https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=AHV-Admin-Guide-v6_8:app-ahv-access-initial-config-t.htmlThe reason for asking is, that they do not seems to be the default passwords (tried to login with them  - did not work: nutanix/4u) - and also the standard alarm that informs that you need to change these disappeared just after I changed the root password!Has something changed in ver. 6.7 / 6.8 ? 

Hi,         I am doing 4 node AHV cluster decomission. I did all the steps and finally gave cluster destroy and ensure it was destroyed completely. I want to do factory reset of all the nodes where the hypervisor /cvm configurations like hostname, IP etc will we wiped out. Let me know the procedure on this. Thanks.

I need to edit XML <feature> <hyperv mode> <cpu mode> by command “virsh edit vm_name”on the host.but when powered off VMs there not show UUID on any host. acli vm.update cannot edit XML file like “virsh edit vm_name”  

Hi,Please help me on below quarry,while migrating the vm getting below issue,  if it is ports issue, please help me which ports need to allow from firewall side.

Hello, I am seeking your assistance with enabling replication on my cluster, which consists of 5 servers and 60 VMs. I am undecided between Metro mode and Asynchronous mode on Prism Central. Given that I have two clusters using Metro-type replication, we encounter difficulties when Metro mode is activated, as clients experience significant slowdowns on their VMs. This is why I am considering enabling Asynchronous replication on Prism Central. My question is: if I activate Asynchronous replication on Prism Central while other clusters are using Metro mode, will this have any impact? Thank you for your help. 

How can I find out the address of UUID when it is powered off? I need to edit some custom option by command “virsh edit vm_name” before power on.

I have taken a bare metal server backup which is running windows server 2016. need to to know Nutanix VM support this kind of backup. if not how can i restore bare metal backup.

Currently, my AOS Version is 6.5, Nutanix requires upgrading to AOS 6.5.3, but I want to upgrade to a newer version. How do you know that the upcoming AOS version will not affect the current AHV version?

Hi Team,We are considering deploying a Nutanix cluster environment to meet best practices while addressing our current demands. We plan to set up Site A as the production cluster and Site B as the disaster recovery cluster.Nutanix Disaster Recovery Solutions offer two options: Protection Domain-Based and Prism Central-Based, along with different replication modes such as Sync, NearSync, and Async.If we choose the Protection Domain-Based solution, for Sync (Metro Availability) we plan to deploy one cluster at each site (A and B), a VM witness in a VMware environment at Site C (which will be registered with Prism Element at each site), and a Prism Central at either Site A or Site B. The built-in continuous backup will protect Prism Central, and it will manage the Prism Elements of each site.If we opt for the Prism Central-Based solution, which offers more advanced features like protection policies and recovery plans, I understand that the witness is a service integrated with Prism Centra

Hello,We have an old VM that is in our Nutanix cluster. It is running an old version of Windows server, and our Cyber department does not want it connected to the network. There has been a request to retrieve historic data from the server.  Is there a way to boot the server with the network disconnected and use a USB drive connected to the Nutanix host to export the data? If there is no way to do that what other possibilities will work? Can the virtual disk from the old server be mounted on a new network connected VM? Thanks

Hi team,When I try to log into the PRISM web interface, I get the error message "Unable to authenticate. Please contact the Nutanix administrator." This has never happened before. What should I do in this situation?  

HP DL380P Gen 82x Xeon E5 2667128GB RAMboot: 128GB SSDhypervisor: 1TB SSDstorage: 1TB HDD=============================Thanks in advance for any advice! Everything installs fine. I selected the ‘single node cluster’ option in installer and put my local DNS server. I waited the ‘15 minutes after installation’ for the cluster to be automatically created.=============================I do see ports opening on the CVM but not 8000:Starting Nmap 7.94 ( https://nmap.org ) at 2024-08-15 16:58 Atlantic Daylight TimeNmap scan report for 10.110.10.101Host is up (0.0033s latency).Not shown: 960 filtered tcp ports (no-response), 33 closed tcp ports (reset)PORT     STATE SERVICE22/tcp   open  ssh111/tcp  open  rpcbind2099/tcp open  h2250-annex-g2100/tcp open  amiganetfs2103/tcp open  zephyr-clt9876/tcp open  sd9877/tcp open  x510MAC Address: 50:6B:8D:F7:85:3A (Nutanix)=============================$ cluster status2024-08-15 12:06:08,460Z INFO MainThread zookeeper_session.py:191 cluster is attempting t

Okay, so I am still seeing weird behavior on my AHV server.At present I am unable to log into the console. Let’s say the username password is root:test. It’s not, but let’s say it is. It tells me it’s wrong, try again. Lather rinse repeat.I go to my PC and ssh into the same box, it works. Here is what it looks like:userpc:~> ssh root@nutanix1 Nutanix AHVroot@nutanix1's password:  Last login: Mon Jul 15 20:14:14 UTC 2024 on tty1Last failed login: Tue Aug 13 18:46:23 UTC 2024 on tty1There were 11031 failed login attempts since the last successful login.Last login: Mon Jul 15 20:14:14 2024I run a command:[root@NTNX-cdb56c24-A ~]# uname -a Linux NTNX-cdb56c24-A 5.10.139-2.el7.nutanix.20220304.342.x86_64 #1 SMP Wed Oct 5 12:00:00 UTC 2022 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/LinuxI logout.[root@NTNX-cdb56c24-A etc]# exit logoutConnection to nutanix1 closed.I immediately try to log back in…userpc:~> ssh root@nutanix1Nutanix AHVroot@nutanix1's password:  Permission denied, please try again.What in

I’ve added vCPU to the VM but on the OS is not appearing same with the configuration.Please suggest me.