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I wan to migrate the prism central vm (scaled out 3Prism Central) AHV cluster to Nutanix+Esxi cluster. which is the best method to migrate the prism central vm, we have 3 prism central vm in the production, so all the PC we need to migrate. after migrate any manual configuration is required, please suggest best method.

Hello  I’m trying to figure out why We are unable to login in to Prism central as below message appear when trying to login: as it show in the dev tools ( Failed to load resource )  I have checked the apache and its not working but not sure if the issue has anything to do with httpdbelow is the status of httpd on the PCVMRedirecting to /bin/systemctl status httpd.service● httpd.service   Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad)   Active: inactive (dead)nutanix@NTNX-1-A-PCVM:~$nutanix@NTNX-A-PCVM:~$ sudo service httpd startRedirecting to /bin/systemctl start httpd.serviceFailed to start httpd.service: Unit is masked. after that checked if a service does not start or there is any FATAL logs for i in `svmips`; do echo "CVM: $i"; ssh $i "ls -ltr /home/nutanix/data/logs/*.FATAL"; done /home/nutanix/data/logs/magneto.FATAL/pollux.ntnx-10-0-22-199-a-pcvm.nutanix.log.FATAL.20220510-022710.119479/home/nutanix/data/logs/lazan.FATAL/home/nutanix/data/logs/uhura.FATAL/home/nutanix/data/logs/catalog.FATAL/h

I need to change the expiration period for the password based on local password. Do you know which command allow to do that, I have checkedncli authconfigbut without success.Cheers from Tahiti

There has been always slight confusion as to what of the 2 commands to use while destroying a cluster - cluster destroy and cluster -f destroyThe difference between the two are cluster destroy : This will clean out all the data on the cluster and wipe out all the configurations.  cluster -f destroy : This command does the exact same thing. Also it will bypass any check for any service on the node. It grants permission to destroy cluster even if zookeeper node is not accessible. Think of it as forcefully destroying the cluster. Always make sure to reclaim licenses before destroying the cluster to follow best practice.Licenses can be reclaimed via the portal or can also be reclaimed manually via SFDC.If licenses are reclaimed manually following commands need to be run once they are reclaimed:ncli -h truencli license reset-license

Hi all,I have noticed 8 of categories are needed for creating a vm.    "api_version": "3.1.0",    "metadata": {        "categories": {            "CalmApplication": "test_single_vm_6",            "CalmClusterUuid": "593a823c-975f-455d-9b37-9aa61181accb",            "CalmDeployment": "42615561_deployment",            "CalmPackage": "Package1",            "CalmProject": "my-calm",            "CalmService": "Service1",            "CalmUser": "admin",            "OSType": "Linux",            "Project": "default"        },        "kind": "vm",        "name": "vm-0-220421-054929"    }I have some errors when lunching a blueprint. ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the following reasons: ERROR: Category key creation failed at the AHV due to the fol

Have you noticed your Prism being unavailable via GUI or API when an AOS upgrade is running? This can occur during an AOS upgrade from 5.15.x or older to 5.19 or newer AOS. For more information check out KB 12280.

Hi!If you have several Virtual machines on an AHV cluster that must be deleted, can you delete  them at the same time from Prism Central or should you remove them one by one from Prism Element?Also, is there any Rest API or PowerCLI to do that process? Thanks

Hi,I want to clone a VM in a isolated network.The isolated network is the same as Production (same IP / same name). There is no communication between production network and isolated network.After the VM is cloned, i start it and i need to execute a script for ajustements.Is it a way by API (prism) or anything else to execute locally a script?Thanks for your help,Matt

Feeling like a real noob today…Error comes back immediately.  I have tried my email address and my NEXT username. I have verified that the CVM can ping the my.nutanix.com.I wanted to try resettting my password on Next but cannot find the link to do that in my user profile.  

Hi ,How do we get the exact BW/network stats for a VM. The entity chart in Analysis created for VM Network RX/TX shows different values for the tap interface on AHV Does the VM Network RX/TX entity chart for VM include the storage traffic towards the hypervisor ? Which is internal and the tap interface traffic is rx/tx towards external ? 

Can we us the metadata usage report by prism central on cluster? Has anyone tried? Or How can I get a similar report? Thank you

Hi, Using REST API 3 ,i want to list vm uuid by providing vm name in search criteria.But i am unable to find any search filter to provide vm name.I am using PUT /vm/list, these are the body model{ "kind": "vm", "sort_attribute": "string", "filter": "string", "length": 0, "sort_order": "string", "offset": 0}Please suggest where to put vm name search criteria.Also, suggest if there is another call for it to list vm uuid by vm name search.

Hello,On ESXi based Hypervisors in a Nutanix cluster, in AOS 5.20.2.1 Prism Element | Analysis has a Metric Chart that can be created for a host:Virtual NIC bytes received rateVirtual NIC bytes transmitted rateVirtual NIC bytes dropped transmitted packetsVirtual NIC bytes received packets dropped Any chance it can be added as a metric chart for hosts running AHV? (perhaps I’m missing something...)I do see it in the Networking Visualization - (just the mini-charts when a host / interface is highlighted). We do have network visualization configured and working. References/notes consulted:https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/network-visualization-and-network-switch-information-37473https://next.nutanix.com/discussion-forum-14/how-do-i-configure-physical-nic-s-to-appear-on-the-virtual-networks-screen-37946

I am provisioning a Windows clone VM using API, can you help how to inject the sysperp file in vm_customization_config?

I am a part of the Prism Ops product management team, and we are working to greatly expand the actions we offer out of box in X-Play and we need your input on Which actions do you need in X-Play?If you have a few moments, we would really appreciate your feedback on which actions you feel we should add to X-Play!https://forms.gle/iLQGL9GoNrNz5Le3AThe form should only take around 5 minutes to fill out. Your input will help decide which actions we should focus on first. We are running a survey from now until Friday, January 28th at 5PM Pacific Time.For more information on X-Play, check out Laura's recent "Getting Started with Nutanix X-Play" blog https://www.nutanix.dev/2022/01/19/getting-started-with-nutanix-x-play/ 

We are moving from VMware vSphere 6.0 to Nutanix Cluster AHV (Nutanix is our Hypervisor). The question is previously we could select console in VMware and make a 2nd connection to the VM (Server or workstation) with out somebody previously logged i without logging the 1st user off.   Is the Nutanix Console different than the VMware Console?

How to tell if an IP is Prism Central or Prism Element by prism api？

Is Prism supported on all/most current browsers? I have issues with Edge and to some extent IE11. Mostly on an AHV cluster that I am testing on before I migrate my producton to AHV. Typically it is with on the VM page and creating or otherwise managing VM's. Sometimes i have issues with the log in page rendering at all.

 Use LCM to display the software and firmware versions of the entities in the cluster.ProcedureIn Prism Central, click the gearbox icon to open the Settings page and select Life Cycle Management in the sidebar. Prism Central opens the Life Cycle Manager page. Click to enlarge Click Options > Perform Inventory. If you do not have auto-update enabled, and a new version of the LCM framework is available, LCM shows a warning message: Click to enlarge Click OK. The LCM displays all discovered entities. To view the current Calm and Epsilon versions, click View All. Click to enlarge   The entity shows the current version, as well as the date and time of the most recent update. Click All Updates to return to the Life Cycle Manager page. Upgrading Calm with the Life Cycle Manager Use LCM to upgrade Calm and Epsilon to the latest available versions. LCM allows you to upgrade Calm or Epsilon independently or simultaneously.  Configure rules in your external firewall to allow LCM updates. F

You can upgrade to newer versions of Calm without performing a VM upgrade. Upgrades to most minor releases and few major releases are done using the LCM method.LCM performs inventory and Calm/Epsilon upgrade operations fail using the default LCM URL. The workaround is to replace the LCM repository URL to http://download.nutanix.com/lcm/saas under the LCM > Settings.To upgrade Calm VM using the LCM method, do the following: Procedure Click Administration > LCM to open the LCM page. Click Perform Inventory.A confirmation window appears. Click Proceed.The Perform Inventory process can take several minutes depending on your cluster size. Once completed, you can view the available updates in the Software page. Select the check-box next to the Calm VM version that you want to upgrade. Then, click Update.Note that the Epsilon check-box also gets selected. Epsilon is the orchestration engine used by Calm. A confirmation window appears.Once the update process begins, it cannot be st

Firstly I am new to Nutanix and still have a lot (everything?) to learn on the subject. I have a single Nutanix cluster running AHV and a number of VMs in production, when the cluster was setup (by a contractor) a Prism Central trial was also setup. To be honest, with a single cluster I have not found any real need to Central so now the trial is up I was wanting to decommission it.The PC VM is also being reported as a ‘bully’ in the cluster so another reason to get rid. Obviously I could just switch it off, but I’m sure that there is more to it than that to safely and cleanly remove the PC instance. Considering my newbie status does anyone have any specific articles they know of, or even better some instructions I can follow to safely and cleanly remove PC from the environment please?

I am upading VM through restAPI, VM  is getting updated but after showing warning on VM grid as below. Request: Method: Put{    "spec": {        "name": "Mahesh-Win7-Flow-0002",        "resources": {            "power_state": "ON",            "hardware_clock_timezone": "Asia/Calcutta"        }    },    "metadata": {        "kind": "vm",        "categories_mapping": {            "Environment": [                "Production",                "Testing"            ],            "Team": [                "Dev-Junior"            ],            "Department": [                "Dev"            ]        },        "categories": {            "Environment": "Production",            "Team": "Dev-Junior",            "Department": "Dev"        },        "use_categories_mapping": true,        "entity_version": "",        "spec_version": 20,        "spec_hash": ""    }}Response : "status": { "name": "Mahesh-Win7-Flow-0002", "state": "ERROR", "execution_context": { "task_uuid": [ "7c606

Since updating to Calm 3.3.1 ssh keys for user auth that worked with my blueprints in Calm 3.2.6 are being rejected with an error message that the key is not encrypted. The keys were created with Windows 10 openssh and worked just fine until the update. Can anyone tell me how to create ssh keys that Calm 3.3.1 will accept?

Hi all!In an attempt to solve a problem with “round-tripping” JSON I’ve concluded that the only fix is to use PowerShell 7 since the ConvertTo-Json cmdlet in version 7 allows me to escape the troublesome characters.This solution might just be me robbing Peter to pay Paul though as I now face the issue of getting Calm to use PowerShell 7 instead of the default 5.1 (a.k.a. Windows PowerShell).I’ve gone so far to set the default PowerShell remote endpoint (windows.powershell) to point to PSH 7, which works if I do a traditional Enter-PSSession but not if I execute a PowerShell script in a Calm runbook.Which leads up to the title of this topic, how does Calm execute PowerShell on an endpoint?Since it’s using port 5985 it should be WinRM/WSMAN/remote PowerShell, but it completely ignores the fact that the default PSH remote endpoint is pointing to PSH 7.Is it using another endpoint? Or is it not using WinRM after all?

Hi all!This might not be a Nutanix Calm specific problem, but since I’m experiencing the problem within Calm I’m posting a question here (as well). :)I'm grabbing a VM definition using GET https://${PCHostAddress}:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/$VMUUID. I convert the payload to an object using ConvertFrom-Json, manipulate it using .Remove() to remove the Status section (among other things), and convert it back to JSON with ConvertTo-Json.When I send the modified payload back using PUT https://${PCHostAddress}:9440/api/nutanix/v3/vms/$VMUUID, I get a "(400) Bad Request." Thinking I screwed something up when modifying the payload, I removed the part of the code that changes the object but still got the same error, even though I'm "just" converting the unmodified payload from and to JSON.Sending back the payload without converting from and to JSON results in a "(422) UNPROCESSABLE ENTITY”, as it should.In this case the -Depth parameter isn't the culprit as far as I can tell (I've added -Depth 10