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Not able to schedule exam

when i try to schedule NCP 5.10 exam i get below error message. If any help it will be great. Account Incomplete!You will not be able to access certification exams until this issue is resolved.Please contact university@nutanix.com for assistance.Go to Home Page.

Article Practice Exams are Now Here!

Practice Exams are now available for Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) & Nutanix Certified Advanced Professional (NCAP)! Nutanix practice exams are yet another way for you to prepare for your imminent certification exam. Our practice exams consist of 25 questions – based on the same obje...

Importing Third Party Appliances to AHV

Do you want to import Third Party Appliances on AHV and wondering about following questions?Is my Third-Party Appliance compatible with AHV? What is supported and un-supported? How will I migrate my Appliance to AHV?We have multiple options that can be used to deploy Third Party Appliances on AHV. T...

Simplified NGT Management with Prism Central

Have you been trying to keep your virtual machines (VMs) up to date with the latest versions of Nutanix Guest Tools (NGT), but face following hurdles:More difficult with seemingly ever-increasing release version activity? Tired of seeing alerts regarding a new version of NGT being available for a VM...

Collecting Hardware information

Keeping track of hardware details across a cluster can be overwhelming. Some information could be found in Portal and other information might be found in IPMI.NCC provides a tool via the command line that allows for the accumulation of all the necessary details into a single output using the followi...

Differences between Prism Element, Prism Central and Prism Pro.

Let’s say you want to know what are the uses and differences between Prism Element, Prism Central and Prism Pro Nutanix Prism is the centralized management solution for Nutanix environments, however, Prism comes in different flavors depending on the functionality needed. Prism Element: It is a s...

Using HashiCorp Packer to deploy a VM

Hello! I’m new to the Nutanix community. Loving the tech so far, but... Has anyone used Packer to deploy Windows from within AHV? I’ve seen plenty of how-to’s on how to create a VM image that can be uploaded to AHV. I want to do the entire process within the cluster. Packer has a QEMU builder but...

How many node failures can 5 node RF3 cluster tolerate?

Hello!We have 5 node RF3 cluster. I tried shutting down 2 of 5 node at a time. Cluster stays online, but rebuild never happens. Is it normal? Should 5 node RF3 cluster rebuild after loosing 2 nodes? Can it survive loosing 1 more node after already loosing 2 (only 2 of 5 stays online)?

Setup my first CE (3) Node HP DL360p G8 Cluster

Very happy to share that with the help of this forum I was able to setup my first CE (3) node cluster on some recently acquired HP DL360p G8 gear. Whether is it was enabling HBA on the P420i controller, or accounting for duplicate drive serial numbers, or troubleshooting the cluster creation process...

VM memory dump creation procedure for Acropolis (VM)

HelloI am interested in the possibility to get a VM memory dump for further analysis (list of processes, sockets, other artifacts). How to do it if using the KVM hypervisor (Acropolis).I need to create a dump on a running VM for analysis. A detailed description of the procedure is required. If I und...

Combining a mixed hypervisor cluster with mixed hardware

We have a 4 node cluster configured as follows:2 x Lenovo HX1320 (dual 8-core Xeon Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10 Ghz / 192 GB RAM / 7.11 TB storage) with ESXi2 x Lenovo HX5520-C (single -core Xeon Silver 4110 CPU @ 2.10 Ghz / 64 GB RAM / 35.83 TB) with AHVWe would like to convert the ESXi nodes to AHV. Lo...

NUTANIX COLLECTOR

What is Nutanix Collector ?It is a desktop application that collects cluster statistics from your VMware or Prism cluster. This output can then be viewed in Nutanix collector or can be downloaded as an Excel file. You can then upload these Excel files into Nutanix Sizer to size and predict future wo...

Protecting Prism Central

Are there any recommendation for protecting Prism Central - I’m actually using PC Scaleout so have 3 PCVM’s and am curious if I should place these in a Metro or Async Protection Domain in the event that we perform a datacenter failover.I know that this cluster wouldn’t be critically needed in such a...

Automating Protection Domain Failover

Hi All, Wondering if anyone has scripted the addition and configuration of nic’s for VM’s that have failed over in a PD? Noticed a few posts from a few years ago but seeing if approach has changed at all. My approach (no script yet): Check which PD’s have become active at remote site to get list o...

Karbon Airgap (dark site) FAQ and Guide

FAQs What is the Airgap feature? Airgap feature is useful for customers in a dark site environment without Internet access or with relatively low Internet bandwidth that would like to use Karbon. Up until the introduction of the Airgap feature, Karbon was only available with sites connected to the I...

Migrate VM from one AHV to another

We need to migrate one VM (a virtual appliance) from one AHV to another with no p connection between the two The AHV versions are different (Euphrates 5.5.8 and Euphrates 5.9). What is the best way to accomplish this.?

Recovery Plans should show a list of associated entities.

When I navigate to Recovery Plans in Prism Central, I get a list off all Recovery Plans and see the number of entities associated with each Recovery Plan. However, there is no direct way of showing a list of these associated entities.It would really help if I could just click that number, and get a...

How to push images from Prism Central to the clusters manually

Prism Central has Image management feature that allows pushing disk images to managed Prism Element instances based on configured image placement policies. The policies rely on categories that are associated with both images and clusters. Altogether this allows building a granular and intricate (if...

Tweaking performance of vNICs on VMs

Processing power doubles endlessly, it seems, and become less and less expensive. Applications, at the same time, are developed with less of resources efficiency in mind and thus demand more and more resources. And so the spiral grows. While in most cases it is not an issue and performance is not i...

Can a standard share be converted to a distributed share or vice-versa?

We do not have the option to convert a standard share to distributed share or a distributed share to a standard share as of file version 3.7. We have a feature request open with Nutanix engineering to enable this feature. The workaround is to create a new share and move the files to the new share us...

RedHat Satellite Nutanix Provider

Hi Together Is there a way automatically provisioning Linux Server on Nutanix Platform with RedHat Satellite? It doen’t seem there is a nutanix provider for satellite. And this link covers only Redhat subscription management https://www.nutanix.com/blog/simplified-subscription-management-for-ahv-w...

What are you working on?

One of the awesome things about community, is the sharing and learning that can happen. It's always encouraging to see others want to help solve problems they are not directly involved in, offer new idea's to old problems and look for new ways of doing things. It also helps me connect people who m...

How to configure Prism session timeout and more!

By default, the Prism Central login page includes background animation, and users are logged out automatically after being idle for 15 minutes. You can disable the background animation, change the session timeout for users, and override the session timeout completely.Some points to note:1. This sett...

Article NCP 5.15 is Here…And it has a New Name!

This post was written by Jill Liles, Sr Marketing Manager for Nutanix University Nutanix University is excited to announce that the Nutanix Certified Professional (NCP) 5.15 exam is now open for registration. And, that the NCP certification has a new name: Introducing Nutanix Certified Professiona...

JSON Formatting for Calm Variables

I need to define a NIC for my windows substrate as a variable.current workflow:User selects subnet string from predefined variable >Pre-Create Parses and sets the subnet variable to the json from previous step. The NIC can be connected toone of n(x) subnets that are defined in the following escr...

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