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Playbook Parameters : Created VM

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

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?

Can't upload an iso file with PRISM centrtal

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 nutan...

Can user access be restricted to specific clusters when navigating from Prism Central

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...

Analysis charts/Custom time range

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.

Snapshot Question Once The Protection Domain and VM Accidentally Removed

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 / stor...

Prism Central (CE) - httpd will not start

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: I'm not sure why th...

Using nCLI non-interactively

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...

Filter UVMs that need an NGT upgrade

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...

Find uptime of virtual machine

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

AHV and CVM fails after restarting the AHV nodes

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...

Prism Central - home partition does not expand to 50Gb

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_...

Alerts Dashboard

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...

How to remove several VM at the same time on AHV cluster?

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

Changing CVM memory size from Prism

Hi everyone,I want change current CVM memory size from 32GB to 40GB (AOS 5.15, NX model)but when I select Configure CVM in the Setting page,there is no option for 40GB from dropbox (only 36GB, 48GB and 64Gb)But when I checked on other Nutanix cluster (AOS 5.20, HX Model)I can choice 40GB from dropbo...

‘Resiliency Status’ in Prism Central widget

Prism Central pc.2021.5 added the ‘Resiliency Status’ to the Storage widget which is a cool idea. However all of my PE clusters in this widget show as Unknown with a callout that reads “Details are unavailable in Clusters < 6.0”.Looking at the latest downloads available online I do see a version...

Minimun recommended snapshot frequency

In case you have to configure a snapshot frequency for a business critical application that can sustain a maximum of 40 min of data loss, is it better to configure the snapshot frequency of the protection domain at 15min or is it better to set a 30min frequency?

Destroy cluster

There has been always slight confusion as to what of the 2 commands to use while destroying a cluster - cluster destroy cluster -f destroy The 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 dest...

Number of vCPUs vs Number of Cores (UVMs, NUMA and CVMs)

Do you still wonder which one to use Number of vCPU or Number of Cores per Socket when configuring a VM? You read something about it and it makes sense and you think you will now remember only to stumble upon the same dilemma sometime later. Shall we clear this once and for all? vCPU and cores a...

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