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I am preparing to migrate several Windows Server VMs from VMware vSphere into Nutanix. Most of the VMs use physical RDM virtual hard disks which are unfortunately [url=https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Xtract-for-VMs-v20:v20-xtract-unsupported-features-r.html]unsupported by Xtract[/url]. As I understand it, this leaves me with two options for migration: [b]Option 1: Convert RDM to VMDK[/b] Steps: [list=1] [*]Power off VMware VM [*]Convert each RDM virtual HDD to VMDK [*]Power on VMware VM [*]Begin Nutanix Xtract process [*]Schedule and perform Nutanix changeover [/list] [url=http://www.vmwarearena.com/convert-rdm-to-vmdk/]How to Convert RDM to VMDK - The Ultimate Guide[/url] With this option, Nutanix Xtract still automates and handles most of the the migration into the new environment, possibly reducing the chance for issues. However, I would need to plan for two potential downtime windows. [b]Option 2: Import Underlying VMDKs into Nuta

Hi everyone, I tried to setup lab for migrade UVM from ESXi 6.5 to AHV 5.10 using Xtract VM. After data seeding completed I select to cutover VM. However, migration was failed with error "Failed to create VM snapshot 'XTRACT-VMSnap-31'. Error: Snapshot hierarchy is too deep.." So, I've checked in snapshot manager and found many snapshot was create by Xtract tools. Does anyone face this issue before? How did you solve this problem? Thank you. [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/92ce16d7-8a52-4e50-9cf9-9b1bae7898e9.jpg[/img]

When migrating vm with xtract migration hangs in step 'Cutover'

hello when reaching the 4th step the wizard keep showing loading for both source and target network without progress.

Hi, Currently our team having an old NX-2400 block that I want to use it temporarily for testing and utilizing spare resource as well. Does anyone know the highest NOS/AOS version and ESXi hypervisor version that this series support so far? Thanks in advance.

Hello, We want to manage multi-tennancy using Nutanix. We have different clients and we want to give visibility them only to manage their VMs. When a client access to prism console, he only will be able to check his VMs and resources, create new machine on his side...not resources and VMs from the B client for example. Is this possible using the last version (5.10.2)? We have seen on last version Nutanix has launched Self Service Portal? Could it be helpful to achieve this requirement? Thanks in advance. Regards,

Hi there, I'm trying to use X-RAY for our purpose and I faced an error without more logs/messages than: "A timeout occurred waiting for VM(s) in VM Group 'Cluster Check' to become responsive within 120 seconds." I configured both vNIC of the X-RAY VM: [list=1] [*]eth0: for communication with the API [*]eth1: for communication with VMs workload [/list] eth1 is configured with a specific subnet (I didn't find too much documentation for zero configuration). On my Nutanix cluster, I added this specific network and let it to give addresses to VMs deployed by X-RAY (98 IPs available in this subnet) During the cluster check, 4 VMs are deployed, powered up and IPs are assigned. The X-RAY VM can communicate with these 4 VMs. The problem is for the last one, the 5th VM doesn't start and the cluster check fail. [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/707a8434-6598-4d08-b344-857ba5fa74e0.png[/img] Do you have any idea? Is there some more details in a

Hello Experts, I am new to Nutanix world and in middle of acquiring basic knowledge. In Prism console under software upgrade, i can see that there are components like AOS , Foundation and Hypervisor. My understanding is that the Acropolis ( AOS ) software is installed in CVM and CVM is called as Foundation. Hypervisor is either AHV or Vmware or HyperV. Is my understanding is correct ? Please clarrify Thanks Sam.

We are preparing to migrate about 350TB of data from our existing 3-tier architecture to a Nutanix hybrid solution. Our storage pool is 480TB in size with about 25% SSD before storage efficiency kicks in. We have post-compression turned on as well as cache deduplication. We are going to attempt to migrate 50-100 VM's per night, and we are afraid that we will overrun our SSD tier eventually. Is there a way for me to run a data tiering job, or force the data to destage lower, daily after the migrations are done so that it doesn't impact our future migrations? Thanks in advance

I would like to setup a test environment but I have less memory. I want to know How much memory does CVM need at least？ AOS version is 5.5

We have installed AFS in my organization. Have a quires from one of the application team, that the will support support SMB v1 shares. Will it possibility to enable or change SMB protocol to comparability mode? File Server 3.2.0.2 Thanks

Hi all, Just checking does anyone had implement Citrix VDI using Citrix Profiles management store on Nutanix files yet? Any issue should we concern please share. Thank you.

We are planning a major migration from existing 3-tier ESXi over to Nutanix/ESXi (AHV to come later). Due to time constraints in our move, we are trying to optimize how many VM's can migrate at one time. VMware has a few well-known limits on their operations: vMotion operations per host (10Gb/s network) - 8 vMotion operations per datastore - 128 Storage vMotion operations per host - 2 Storage vMotion operations per datastore - 8 If I take a "one storage container to rule them all" approach, I will be limited to 8 migrations at once, as long as I spread out my migrations to 4 hosts. My target will be a 14 node cluster, so I would like to push up to 28 operations, if at all possible. Would it be considered a best-practice to carve out 4 storage containers, knowing I'm still in the same pool, and fan out the migrations to get around these limits? My goal is to saturate my 10Gbit inter-datacenter link. Yes, I like to push the limits (break things?). Would the multi-data

Hi, Is there a way to see/export the OS type of the VMs? We are trying to find out how many Windows servers we have of each version (2016, 2012). Thanks Regards

Please let me know if there is any reason as why VirtIO is shipped separately?

Hello - I'm new to Nutanix and am in the middle of taking the online 5.5 course in the education portal. I have a simple question about Cloud connect: In the section about Cloud Connect features the very first thing you read is "data transmitted is already deduplicated and users can choose to enable compression on the local storage container.." Yet when I look at the section regarding General Recommendations and Limitations I see the following: "It is not recommended to enable deduplication on the source cluster..." Can you please help me understand this? This looks like a complete contradiction.

Has anyone experienced the X-Ray tests going to 0% but staying 'open'? For the last few days our X-Ray tests have been running to completion but not finishing. As a result the additional tests do not get run. The curie log indicates "exiting _cluster_results_loop" but the tests hang open at 0% and they have to be cancelled.

I used an older version of Move back in September to migrate out ESXi VMs to AHV, and now with the GA release of Hyper-V with v3.0.2 I figured I'd give that a go. I just deployed 3.0.2 and attempted to add my Hyper-V box and it connects, however, it's not inventorying any VMs. I have 6 running VMs on this box so I'm not sure what the issue is. Any assistance would be greatly appreciated!

We attempted to migrate our ODNS as well as setup new VM's in AHV by extracting the vmdk's but each time we get the below screen on boot. Has anyone else successfully got the ODNS VA to run in AHV? I've tried editing the vm's xml file to change the video type and vram but no luck as of yet:[img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/df42756e-6765-4971-8d7f-63a99d3f8651.png[/img]

I am looking for a solution to change the web GUI password of the user nutanix in Xtract 2.0.3. In the doc I only see how to change it during the first login. I have already opened a ticket with support. But there I was told to redeploy the Xtract VM to change the password. This is not really a solution for me to spend all the time again to have all configured just to have another password. Can someone help me with that?

Hi, Shouldn't this work? [code][root@mlnsrvmon01 scripts]# snmpwalk -v 3 -l authPriv -a SHA -A secret -u user -x AES -X secret1 10.21.1.10 -m /usr/share/snmp/mibs/NUTANIX-MIB.txt clusterName NUTANIX-MIB::clusterName = No Such Object available on this agent at this OID [/code]

Does anyone know of a way to adjust the Gateway Timeout setting?

If we use the ESXi/Hyper-v as the Hypervisor, does the Satadom will be formatted(Removing AHV) and then install ESXi? What happens to CVM in this case? Any manual operation is required?

Please help me with the following: Where do the AOS sit? Is it inside the CVM or on the SATA DOM? Is AHV created when the AOS is installed or vice versa

Hi all. I have read the document about the different failure scenarios. For me it is still not clear, what really happens, if the data resiliency status is still critical and another node fails. In the doc I read this: With two sets of physical disks that are inaccessible, there would be a chance that some VM data extents are missing completely. In our starting time when using Nutanix (version 3.x) I remember our Nutanix partner was telling me, in such a case the cluster stops to make sure data keeps consistent. Do I have some UVMs that are not working any more correctly or is cluster stopping and all UVMs are stopped? Thank you very much. Kind regards, Stefan