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I have a problem with arp requests on the bridge for guest traffic In the drawing below the current architecture. If a request arrives from the outside, passing through the firewall, and the firewall is starting to communicate to a VM connected to a NIC to BR1-UP bond of BR1 bridge, the ARP request for the resolution of the VM address stops at the bridge BR1 and do not reach the VM, in this case the firewall and VM ARP tables remain unpopulated and the communications stop. On the other hand, if the communications depart from the VM to the Firewall (for example with a ping) the ARP request is processed by the firewall and the ARP tables of firewall and VM are correctly populated with the respective MAC ADDRs. Firewall IP and VM IP are in the same broadcast domain, no routing. I checked with Wireshark on the windows VM, with tcpdump and ovs-appctl fdb/show on the Nutanix host and when the communications start from the firewall the ARP request goes up to the physical card of the BR1

I tryed to run xtract but I'm facing a problem to install the VirtIO tools. Using the automatic script on xtract it's end with the error: "ExitCode: '1603'". If I try to install VirtIO manually the show this message "ended prematurely because of an error. Your system has not been modified". Creating a verbose log file, from the installation, I see some errors like this: MSI (c) (08:18) [22:06:00:591]: Package to be registered: 'Nutanix-VirtIO-1.1.3.msi' MSI (c) (08:18) [22:06:00:591]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (c) (08:18) [22:06:00:591]: Note: 1: 2262 2: AdminProperties 3: -2147287038 or Action start 22:06:00: PrepareDlg. MSI (c) (08:50) [22:06:00:623]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI (c) (08:50) [22:06:00:623]: Note: 1: 2228 2: 3: Error 4: SELECT `Message` FROM `Error` WHERE `Error` = 2898 Info 2898.For WixUI_Font_Normal textstyle, the system created a 'Tahoma' font, in 0 character set, of 13 pixels height. MSI (c) (08:50) [22:06:00:623]: Note: 1: 2205 2: 3: Error MSI

I've inherited a Nutanix setup. I've noticed there is 1 Storage Pool setup and 4 Storage Containers. (see screenshot).  I don't know what is the Default setup looked like so I don't know which are required. I'd like to have 1 container. Currently attached to Nutanix Host VDI_POC nutanix-peristent-pool Not attached NutanixManagementShare SelfServiceContainer All of my VMs are on the VDI_POC. Can I somehow delete the other 3 and combine them into the VDI_POC without losing data/downtime?  

We have a scenario in which we are running VMware vSphere environment on existing servers and planning to deploy a DR site. Is it possible that we deploy a Nutanix AHV environment at the DR site and replicate from the existing ESXi environment at the Production site to the Nutanix DR site somehow? We are currently using Veeam backup and replication for VMware for backup. What is the possibility of such a requirement?

Hello, We have an 5.1 AOS cluster (EOL I know), we wish to upgrade to latest possible LTS (which seems to be 5.5.8). The ncc is clean but the preupgrade fails at 3°% claiming a zookeeper is not reponding on one of the CVMs. But allssh genesis status | grep zookeeper zookeeper: [3967, 3996, 3997, 4003] Connection to @1 closed. zookeeper: [3899, 3928, 3929, 24979, 25089, 25105] Connection to @2 closed. zookeeper: [3919, 3948, 3949, 7259, 7365, 7380] Connection to @3 closed. zookeeper: [3923, 3952, 3953, 7709, 8032, 8047] Connection to @4 closed. And [code]ncc health_checks system_checks zkinfo_check_plugin [/code] runs normally. What could be the issue? Thank you

Hi, I'm trying to create a schedule for an existing Protection Domain like this: [code]def createProtectionDomainSchedule(self,pdname): # Set the schedule for the protection domain try: policy = {"retention_policy": {"remote_retention_type": None, "remote_max_snapshots": {}, "local_retention_period": None, "local_max_snapshots": 1, "remote_retention_period": {}, "local_retention_type": None}, "start_times_in_usecs": [1549477620000000L], "rollup_schedule_uuid": None, "user_start_time_in_usecs": 1549477620000000L, "is_rollup_sched": None, "pd_name": pdname, "values": None, "suspended": False, "app_consistent": False, "end_time_in_usecs": None, "type": "DAILY", "id": "63c037e5-41e4-4630-8641-23509a5360a1gg", "every_nth": 1} protectionDomainURL = self.base_url + "/protection_domains/"+pdname+"/schedules" serverResponse = self.session.post(protectionDomainURL, policy ) print serverResponse.text return json.loads(serverResponse

A customer asked.... Is there a sort of table to compare the Acropolis version with che KVM corresponding one? Thank you!

I have a scenario where I only have the vmUUID available to me and the NGT tools aren't currently installed on a VM so it appears to be limiting what I'm able to do with the API. Is there a way to retrieve a VMs vmID using the vmUUID?

Is there any API to get VM UUID given VM name or any work around to get that? Is it possible to delete a VM given only VM name with API? Thanks in advance. Regards, Pawan

Hi , Anyone would know if RHEL is supported to run on Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor (AHV) ?

I have windows 2012 r2 VM but I forget the windows administrator password. When I'm trying to reset the password from recovery command line using below command. [list=1] [*]X:\sources [*]d: cd windows\system32\ren utilman.exe utilman.exe.old [*]copy windows\system32\cmd.exe utilman.exe. [/list] Usually above command will work for normal physical windows server , ESXi Guest vm's to reset the local administrator password. ** In nutanix recovery command line I am unable to view my actual OS disk. Is there any way, How can i view my guest VM os disk on recovery mode. ?

How to change expiry of nutanix snapshot?

Can you please help me with below questions 1.How prism master/Acropolis master will be elected ? is there any criteria to become a leader ?

Can anybody confirm if the Extent Store size shown in the Nutanix Sizer tool will be equal to the Container Maximum Capacity that can be used by the VMs for data storage? I am designing a 3-node cluster with following Disks 3 * 960 GB SSD 6 * 4 TB HDD Nutanix Sizer shows Extent Store (Assuming RF2) = 9.63 TiB for HDD and 0.64 TiB for SSD The total shown is 10.27. Will this value be the Maximum Capacity available for the Container to be made out of storage pool? As I have observed the Container Maximum Capacity is exactly half of what the Storage Pool Capacity is shown. What will be the Storage Pool Capacity shown for the above mentioned specs and is this value visible in Nutanix Sizer tool/Storage Capacity Calculator?

Hello Experts, I have received an 1065-G6 3-node block for new installation. Can someone please guide to how to start from the scratch. This is new install and no earlier base available in the site. Thanks Sam

How do I update Prism with no downtime?

How can I license our Prism Central? It's running a Pro Trial license now. I've generated a Generate a cluster summary file, but when I try to upload it in the portal I get the following message: Insufficient licenses available to upgrade from your current license type of [b]Starter[/b]. Manual registration results in the same error. We have an appliance Ultimate license for 7 nodes.

Hi, We have a Windows 2012R2 HyperV host with about 8 Windows 2008R2 VMs. These VMs are Gen1 using .vhdx as the file system. I'm currently running Ntnx 4.7.4 and was wondering the following: [list=1] [*]Does the image service import .vhdx files or do I need to use qemu-image ? [*]If I use something like Starwind V2V converter, it supports QCOW2 and RAW, is there a preferred Ntnx format ? (Image inserted below) [*]Does the SMB version on the CVM have unique specifications ? I was trying to use Storagecraft Shadowprotect Recovery options (Linux based) but it would see the UNC?[/list]Thanks in Advance, G [list=1] [*][img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2506iD6764FB6092E7F6F.png[/img][/list]

Hi All, Does anyone know how to get this View on files? Regards Gavin [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/8042916d-dcb4-4489-9cee-3c2c3ea507aa.png[/img]

I have been trying to remove an existing nfs whitelisted machine through Rest API explorer. API: cluster/nfs_whitelist/{name:.+} I have tried giving the path parameter with different combination of IP/sunbnet mask but all were failed with error message: Specified NFS Whitelist does not exist. Here, machine IP is whitelisted as I can see it in Filesystem whitelists but I am not able to figure out the exact representation of path parameter. If anyone knows, then please tell me. Thanks in advance.

Hello, In setting up Nutanix we do not allow it on the Internet. How much does this constrain what we can do with it? ie Life Cycle Management (LCM) Although LCM allows us to point to a different source we will still need to get the Modules somehow? Although LCM lets us start an Inventory it still seems to want to go out and get a Manifest file and then it fails? Can these be downloaded somehow? Where else are we going to find difficulty with? Thank you...

We are designing a Nutainx cluster utilizing a NX-1065-G5 four host block licensed with Prism Pro and Acropolis Ultimate. This will be the production site managing approximately 12 workloads. For the recover site we are looking at building a 3 host Dell cluster. The hypervisor throughout the environment will be AHV. There will be a Cisco metro network solution between these two sites. My question is, what are our options for replication between the two sites? The KB lists solutions for ESXi and Hyper-V, but does not mention AHV configurations. Is this because this is a native solution built into the Prism solution? Thank you for any enlightenment.

Using near sync replication in AOS 5.5 means that normal snapshots on VMs cannot be initiated by external backup tools like comtrade, rubrik This is a bit of a showstopper. If we need an RPO of 15 minutes on AHV, we have to use nearsync - but then we can't backup VMs off the cluster When will Nutanix resolve this rather major downside?

Hi Team, i am new to Nuatnix and i have requested to setup and configure the 2 Nodes Nutanix in our environment and OS will be ESXI .please need your advise by step by step. what are the prerequisites should I need to have. how many IPs i should need to connect from nutanix box to necessary devices Model :NX-6235C-G5 Many thanks in advance Ansar ali

Hi Everyone, I am migrating VMs to AHV from XenServer. The process involves [list] [*]Copy XenServer VM Disks to Nutanix Datashare on XenServer [*]Create DISK_IMAGE from the disks copied on Nutanix DataShare [/list] The manual process is to create an image in Nutanix using URL nfs://Nutanix Host IP/SR Name/SR UUID/DISK UUID.vhd I am looking to automate this step using Powershell and Nutanix Cmdlets 'New-NTNXImage' Please help me on how can I create a image (source: URL) using powershell So far I have this, [code]$URL = "nfs://172.21.92.26/Xen_to_AHV_Migration/f63571ed-3fbf-80ba-f851-31767ad753fc/357527a6-e441-46e9-a680-f05f1af831aa.vhd" New-NTNXImage -Name "xenahvwintst - disk 1" -Annotation "Copied VM xenahvwintst - disk 1" -ImageType DISK_IMAGE -ImageImportSpec $URL [/code] I am not sure on how to include the URL into the command to create NTNXImage