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Hey @TimothyGaray Maybe for VM creation automation, you can use our product CALM The following guide will help you get an overview of CALM https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details/?targetId=RA-2093-Nutanix-Calm:RA-2093-Nutanix-Calm Go through this blog to get a brief overview of calm https://next.nutanix.com/blog-40/nutanix-calm-the-what-and-how-of-calm-blueprints-31480
Hello @cmonard You can use the storage_container endpoint to calculate the usage of a container and based on that, calculate the logical Storage summary. https://www.nutanix.dev/reference/prism_element/v2/api/storage-containers/get-storage-containers-uuid-getcontainer/
Hello @cviernes-59806 Based on the Metro Availability Guidehttps://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details/?targetId=BP-2009_Metro_Availability:BP-2009_Metro_Availability “Metro Availability does not currently support AHV environments.” But I do remember it being in the pipeline and soon will be supported in the future release of AOS and AHV. You can refer to the following guide to configure Async DR in AHV environment https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details/?targetId=BP-2005_Data_Protection:BP-2005_Data_Protection
Hello @Branislav As mentioned in nutanixbible (“The solution is applicable to the configurations below (list may be incomplete, refer to the documentation for a fully supported list):”) We should refer to the latest document release of the product to be sure of the configuration changes. Based on the Leap Administration guide ESXi and AHV both are supported.Leap Admin Guide To quote from the guide Supported Hypervisors On premises, the hypervisor must be one of the following: AHV ESXi The reason AAPM 5.10 training is not mentioning ESXi as the supported hypervisor is that ESXi Support for Leap came from AOS 5.11 based on release notes of AOS 5.11 https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Release-Notes-Acr-v5_11:AOS-features-updates-pc-r.html
Hello @Sayo You don’t need to stop the cluster to enable EC. You can enable it any time using Prism Web UI but you need at least 4 nodes to enable it. The following recommendations of EC may help you to clear some doubts regarding the technology. Erasure Coding Recommendation
Hello @Tarishah We have a Hardware Replacement Guide which mentions the step by step guide to replacing any hardware in the NX environment. The guide also mentions the position of DIMM, best practises to follow and a video for your guidance. Just go to the Hardware Replacement Guide on Portal, select the hardware you want to replace and the model. Here’s the link for your reference.https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/list?type=hardware&filterKey=Component&filterVal=Memory
Hello @MrMike Are you talking about clone from ADSF option?
You need to upload file to a Nutanix container. This could be done through WinSCP or you can mount the container at an external site and copy the files there. The CVM command nfs_ls can be used to list AHV container contents and help determine the files inside the container. The following document provides more info on creating VM with some examples https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details/?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v5_16:wc-vm-create-acropolis-wc-t.html Scenario 3 in the KB-2622 might help you in transferring files to the container.
Hello @MrMike Yes, you should create the directory inside a container. NutanixManagementShare and SelfService container are internal Nutanix container, and shouldn’t be modified.
Hello @chenzh4 I tried selecting AOS 5.10.10 and ESXI 6.5 U3 and a lot of NX Hardware were compatible Regarding compatibility with som OEM partners, please take note of the following as mentioned in “Hypervisor Support Policy” at the bottom of the Compatibility Matrix Page This compatibility matrix shows the AOS, AHV, and hypervisor compatibility for Nutanix NX and SX Series platforms and SW-Only Models qualified by Nutanix (such as Cisco UCS, Dell PowerEdge, HPE ProLiant and others listed here). For other platforms not listed here, such as Dell XC, Lenovo HX, and others, please see your vendor documentation for compatibility.
Hey @Ismael.pereira If your home partition is above the threshold, you can use the following KB portal.nutanix.com/kb/1540 Regarding AOS upgrade issue, before performing an AOS upgrade, there’s something called pre-upgrade which runs a series of checks to ensure everything will be fine when you’ll move forward with an AOS upgrade.
Hey @Jb. You need to play around a little with AHV disk management workflows. From what I understood you need to clone a disk and then move it from one VM to another. The following KB lists some commonly used AHV Disk management workflow, might come in handy. AHV Disk Management Workflow
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