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I am looking to build a blueprint where I would like to include some optional services.  How can I disable a service based on a variable.

HelloI would like to use REST API within Prism Central to assign a category to a VM.I dont know how to do thatDo I need to use this API - “Update an existing VM” (put /vms/{uuid})or this API- “Create or Update a category value” (put /categories/{name}/{value})And how can I use it to assign a new category and not remove previous category ?RegardsPascal   

 https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-management-55/os-patching-automation-with-calm-39677With reference to my previous thread, I have below doubts pertaining to achieving automation of Windows hosts patching over Nutanix AHV infra.Process would be like - Take a snapshot of the server, deploy the updates, test the server services are functioning as expected, if not restore the snapshot.Can it be achieved without using Calm? I mean by only using Ansible/Chef along with WSUS? What will be overall workflow for this? Any other 3rd party tools I will need to use for the same?I am looking for open source and cost effective approach here.Any Help/Direction will be highly appreciated.

Hi!I have a script in a runbook that dynamically executes a background job using another script, also placed on disk, but there is no output from that background job even if I explicitly ask for the result with Receive-Job.Here’s the code I run to execute the external script as a background job and then get the results:$job = Start-Job -FilePath $pathToScriptReceive-Job $jobThe runbook executes without problems but there is no output. If I use the following method to invoke the external script I get the expected output from the runbook:& $pathToScriptI would like to use background jobs though as there are benefits to that I’d like to use. Can I use background jobs with Calm and if so, how?Thanks.

Hi everyone,WEe are in AOS 5.20 (up to date) and because there is a problem, I need to configure some VM that are set with non english keyboard layout through the nutanix console, bu I can’t. it seems console only know english layout. Is there any to use non-english layout ?or should I fill a bug/feature request ?

Folks,I have below queries with respect to Calm functionalities,Can Ansible be completely replaced  with Calm in Nutanix automation area? If not, what kind of Ansible tasks can Calm handle? And if I have to differentiate between both, what would be pointers? What other competitive (opensource) products are there in market which gives similar functionalities as Calm?Please help to understand. 

Hi, I know in last few days that by default, storage in AHV is thinly provisioned. So, im asking if there is a way to avoid disk over-provisioning ? 

Similarly to a CVM, Prism Central VM can run out of space.There are three main contributors:localhost_access_log.txt not being rotated properly Nutanix Insights collector log file have consumed more disk space than expected on Prism Central and Controller VMs multiple Nutanix Guest Tool installers are stored in the home directory of Prism CentralWhile the engineering team is working on improving the product behaviour, there are some things you can do about preventing a PC failure:Log in to the PC VM. Navigate to the /home partition List the contents of the directory by size and look for any large unused files that can be deleted.Some common sub-directories under /home where large files are likely to be found. Files in these locations can be deleted to free up space.   Delete the files in the folder but NOT the folder itself./home/nutanix/software_downloads/ - Delete any old versions other than the versions you are currently upgrading /home/nutanix/software_uncompressed/ - Delete any ol

We created a playbook to send email whenever a New VM got created in Nutanix AHV cluster. How can we add User Name and Cluster Name in Email Message? There is not much benefit if,  such details can not be provided,Event:Action: 

New IDP Enter Configuration Manually missing.It seems we are no longer able to edit or manually configure an IDP.  Has anyone come across this with newer versions of Prism Central? 

Beam OverviewBeam is a Cost Governance SaaS product offering by Nutanix that helps cloud-focused organizations to gain visibility into cloud spend across multiple cloud environments.The following are a few of the key functionalities that help you with the cost management: Provides you with deep visibility and rich analytics detailing cloud consumption patterns. One-click cost optimization across your cloud environments. Proactively identifies idle and underutilized resources, and delivers specific recommendations to resize infrastructure services and ensure optimal cloud consumption. Beam provides the following capabilities: Visibility into cloud consumption: Provides businesses with deep visibility into their multi-cloud consumption at an aggregate and granular level. Beam also automatically identifies cost anomalies to ensure cloud operators can immediately identify when spending deviations happen. Optimization of Cloud Consumption: Provides cloud operators with a one-click fea

Hallo people, i'm new here and new in the theme nutanix ce. We have three servers in a cluster. All the systems are ok. I mean it is the version PRISM central 5.6 but i'm not sure, because i don't find the version number on dashboard... Now i want to upload an iso image from my workstation to nutanix ce. But something goes wrong and the nutanix tell me this: openSUSE-Leap-15.0-NET-x86_64.iso: { "api_version": "3.1", "code": 500, "message_list": [ { "message": "Internal Server Error. Failed to stream image: {\n \"api_version\": \"3.1\",\n \"code\": 500,\n \"message_list\": [\n {\n \"message\": \"Internal Server Error. No storage container found\",\n \"reason\": \"INTERNAL_ERROR\"\n }\n ],\n \"state\": \"ERROR\"\n}", "reason": "INTERNAL_ERROR" } ], "state": "ERROR" } I don't know how to assign a storage container for uploading... Anybody a tipp for me? Thank you Greetings Stephan

I want to use the replica number in the hostname.  Is this possible ?  I can’t seem to find the variable to use.

We have set up the connection to our Active Directory for authenticating in Prism Central. We have several clusters connected to our Prism Central. We have a scenario we are wondering about. Is it possible to restrict user access to only specific clusters in Prism Central? For example, I have user 1 and user 2 with clusters A, B, C and D in Prism Central. I want user 1 to be able to manage clusters A and C from Prism Central but want to continue to allow user 2 to be able to manage all of the clusters in Prism Central. We would want to allow user A to work with VMs only on clusters A and C and prevent access to VMs on clusters B and D. Is this possible? Currently the users in our "user 1 role" access the individual Prism Elements for the specific clusters, but we want to be able to allow our "user 1" to have a single point of access for each cluster they are meant to manage without granting them access to the other clusters in Prism Central.

Beam allows you to do the following administrative controls. Add and manage users accessibility to various cloud accounts in Beam. Two types of access can be granted to a user. Admin Access - The user gets read and write access to all cloud accounts added in your Beam account. User Access - The administrator can grant Read Only or Read and Write permissions on selected cloud accounts to a user, thus allowing the administrator to exercise the principle of least privilege.  Adding a Beam User Click the Hamburger icon on the top-left corner to display the main menu. Then, click Configure → User Management. Click Add User. In the Details page, enter the user details and change the timezone as desired. Then, click Next to go to the Permissions page. In the Permissions page, you can choose Admin access or User Access. Click Admin Access if you want to give administrator rights to the user. Click save to complete the task. Click User Access if you want to grant Read Only or R

What is the maximum and the minimum time range that we can establish in an analysis chart?The question surges because we need the analytical info about  some VMs but we can´t retrieve more than 3 months and we need about 18 months.

Hello, I have two questions regarding snapshot on nutanix.If I restore VM / storage using nutanix snapshot, the VM / storage still pointing the VM / storage on protection domain or not ?  What happen if the VM / storage I create earlier using nutanix snapshot when the protection domain and VM / storage removed or accidentally delete ?  Thanks,Tirtayudha

Hi, I seem to be having a problem deploying Prism Central using the automated deployment. Everything seems to go through fine, the VM is created however the install task always fails. Looking at the Prism Central VM, it seems the httpd service cannot start up, with the error: code:Redirecting to /bin/systemctl status httpd.service● httpd.service - The Apache HTTP Server Loaded: loaded (/usr/lib/systemd/system/httpd.service; enabled; vendor preset: disabled) Active: failed (Result: exit-code) since Mon 2018-10-08 00:59:43 PDT; 1min 34s ago Docs: man:httpd(8) man:apachectl(8) Process: 5495 ExecStop=/bin/kill -WINCH ${MAINPID} (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Process: 5493 ExecStart=/usr/sbin/httpd $OPTIONS -DFOREGROUND (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE) Main PID: 5493 (code=exited, status=1/FAILURE)Oct 08 00:59:43 ntnx-192-168-4-59-a-cvm systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...Oct 08 00:59:43 ntnx-192-168-4-59-a-cvm httpd[5493]: [Mon Oct 08 00:59:43.868554

I would like to download the cluster info file so I can apply licenses to my prism element over CLI. I can do this interactively by opening an SSH command and it asks if I am sure [y/N]. When automating this, how do I go about entering “y”? I usually get around this by using -echo 'y' | ncli license download-cluster-info file-path='/home/nutanix/cluster_name.csf' But its not liking it -nutanix@NTNX-20FM5A210030-A-CVM:10.248.8.62:~$ echo 'y' | ncli license download-cluster-info file-path='/home/nutanix/L02VM1.csf'This operation will start the licensing process. Are you sure you want to proceed (y/N)?: Error: null 

Hey all, I´m looking for a way to filter out all VMs that need an guest tools upgrade in PC.I tried:VMs "VM Type"="User VM" "Installed Version"="Upgrade available" ListorVMs "VM Type"="User VM" "NGT Status"="Upgrade available" List as a filter but that´s not working. I was able the list all VMs with tools installed with this filter:VMs "Nutanix Guest Tools"=Installed "VM Type"="User VM" List PC Version: pc.2021.7PE Version: 5.20.1.1 LTS Thanks in advanceErik

Hi All,  Just wondering is there anyway to find the uptime of a virtual machine running on AHV?

Hi Experts,https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-automation-55/automating-soc-processes-with-calm-39678Continuing from above thread as it is in closed state now.I would like to know if same can be achieved with below firewall/security components are deployed at customer premises with Nutanix infra.Sophos UTM SG450 - Version 9.707-2Sophos UTM Manager Version 5PALO ALTO 850 - Version 9.1.10 Looking for some direction and supportive to move ahead.

Hello People, Facing strange issues on deploying Nutanix 3 node cluster. Everything is completed without any issues deploying Nutanix. After restarted the nodes we are not able to reach AHV Node IPs after logging into ILO manually restarted the network services and then the AHV and CVM are reachable and all the cluster is normal. These happen only I restarted the nodes or shutting down AHV.Before restarting, network interfaces are up only.   From Switch side we have configured access port VLAN tagged 1010.  Here eth4 is connected on switch-1 port 1 and same eth6 is connected on switch-2 port 2  Note : Both switch-1 and switch-2 is stacked  Model : Cisco SG350XG  AOS : 5.20.1.1 LTSHere my config nutanix@NTNX-CVM:101.101.0.13:~$ allssh manage_ovs show_uplinks================== 101.101.0.14 =================Bridge: br0  Bond: br0-up    bond_mode: active-backup    interfaces: eth6 eth4    lacp: off    lacp-fallback: false    lacp_speed: slow================== 101.101.0.15 =================

Currently running PrismCentral pc.2021.3.0.2After upgrading to this version, the /home partition is supposed to expand to 50gb from 40gb.  This unfortunately did not happen.I found KB9525, and tried to run this command to manually expand the partition:sudo python /usr/local/nutanix/bootstrap/bin/pc_config_home_partition.py --skip_end_sector_validationThat didn’t succeed in expanding the /home partition (which was sitting at 91% utilisation)In the pc_config_home_partition.log file, I found this error::178 BLKRRPART: Device or resource busysfdisk: The command to re-read the partition table failed.Run partprobe(8), kpartx(8) or reboot your system now, before using mkfsI ran partprobe, didn’t helpkpartx requires parameters, and I wasnt sure what inputs to provide, so I didn’t run thatI did reboot Prism Central, but that didn’t help either, except it did somehow reduce disk utilisation of /home to 76% from 91%.  Still couldn’t expand the disk thoughAnyone faced a similar situation, or have

Hey folks,I have created an Alerts dashboard for a cluster. The project is meant to be an enhancement to the Analysis page in Prism in terms of data visualization. You get a single page view of the alert stats generated in your cluster.https://github.com/nkunnath/dash-alerts-ntnx Please feel free to try it out and let me know if this has been useful. Any suggestions/improvements/ideas are welcome.  Cheers!