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I'm looking into backing up our Nutanix Acropolis cluster to either Azure or AWS. What I'm curious about are the actual costs once you factor in not just their basic storage rate, but Puts and data writes and everything that happens during a backup and restore (rare as those would be). We have around 5 TB total with all our VMs, with the daily snapshots averaging around 40GB in changed data. We would want to retain maybe a month's worth of backups with dailies and weeklies. Is this enough data to do a decent estimate, or is it one of those 'Try and see' scenarios? I'd be interested in anybody else that's utilizaing it as a remote backup site and what kinds of costs they're seeing. Thanks! Clint

Can know impact of SSD failure if each node has 2 SSDs in slot0 & slot1: 1. Slot0 SSD failure 2. Slot1 SSD failure 3. Both SSDs failure (Know this will be CVM failure)

If I add one additional node with 512 GB ram to my existing cluster which consisit of 3 nodes of 256 GB each, how N+1 will be calculated?

Need to know when we say RF2 how many copies of data A will be created? one copy i.e. one primary original data & secondary one. Or one primary orignal data & 2 secondary copies.

Hey, We recently upgraded on of our clusters to AOS 5.01. This process went flawlessly! After the upgrading I noticed some minor bugs which I would like to share: 1) Missing names: [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2616i82890AFCEDDB58CB.png[/img] Minor but worth mentioning. 2)Missing title: [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2618i073B8D8311B00E3B.png[/img] Minor but worth mentioning 3)Missing export button. This is the main reason I'm posting this(preventing others to waste their time on this); It took me quite a while to find this "invisible button". [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2619i018A0275429043E4.png[/img] With AOS 5.01, the (invisible) button is on the right side of the graph: [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2620iEE0200D1B2B8CE66.png[/img] If I come accross more bugs I will post them here Seba

Hi, We are thinking of building a separate VmWare Horizon view cluster and make the Nutanix-cluster used just for server loads. We have a few scenarios of creating this. And one is to buy 4 new vmware hosts and connect them to the existing nutanix cluster with iSCSI, this is just because we have enough storage already in the existing cluster. My question is, will it be a bottleneck to use iSCSI? We will run about 260 Win7/Win10 task-workers VDI clients. Regards Tobias

I've been doing some research on best practices when creating a gold OS image for VDI. Some vendors (e.g., EMC) recommend using 8k vs the default 4k with Windows 7. Obviously this has a lot to do with vendor based storage and overall design. Is there a specific OS NTFS allocation unit size Nutanix recommends when staging a gold image based on Nutanix storage technology? Any thoughts would be appreciated. References: http://blog.millennia.it/2011/01/11/making-a-leaner-fitter-windows-7-virtual-desk/http://www.emc.com/collateral/software/white-papers/h8043-windows-virtual-desktop-view-wp.pdfhttp://www.amazon.com/Implementing-VMware-Horizon-View-5-2/dp/184968796X

Anybody figured out how to convert or modify a Windows Developer image (these ones: [url=https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines]https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virtual-machines[/url]) to run on Acropolis? Looking to allow these builds to simplify some Developer testing being as they're updated about monthly by Microsoft and include the tools necessary to work within them. The flavors are Hyper-V, VMware, Parallels and VirtualBox. I quickly attempted uploaded the vmdk from the VMware version, but of course get bitten by the virtIO driver necessity with Windows. Trying to review options to copy the drivers into the disk or something, just starting to research. Point being, building from scratch isn't what I'm interested in, I want to be able to simply pull down this image (OVA, OVF, VHD, VMDK) and convert it to KVM/Acropolis...if possible.

As a pre-step to a planned failover, I want to take a snapshot of each of my Metro PD's (4 total). Together, they are over 5 TB in used storage. Since they're all in the same Storage Pool I plan on doing one at a time so as to not compound the i/o load - does this make sense? Also, can anyone provide a *rough* estimate of how long a PD snapshot should take to complete? Thanks!

Hi everyone, considering AHV hypervisor, which are the possible options to backup the virtual machines? As far as I know, the only certified backup software is commvault... but I was wondering if AHV/prism can do vm-level backup and which are the features (guest/application consistency, possibility to file level restore ecc....) and differences compared to Commvault. Thank you

Is it ok to install Nutanix Guest Tools in a guest vm template before the template is Sysprepped? I need to deploy a bunch of Server 2008 r2 VMs that will need NGT. I'm aware that it's easy to automate NGT install AFTER vm deployment and I do that for most cases; however on Server 2008 r2 builds there's a techinical limitation that prevents this from working. So I'm wondering if there is anything in NGT that will break if the vm is Sysprepped afterward.

Hi, We just fired up a 3 node cluster HX1310 with AHV. Trying to keep things lean and mean... When a Windows guest needs more CPU, is it "better" to go with more vcores or more vcpu in AHV? I'm asking from a performance perspective and perhaps licensing perspecitve..... Thanks, G

The customer I currently support has a pair of Nutanix clusters running on the Dell PowerEdge XC630-10 harward platform. They have really enjoyed the performance and overall gain (simplicity of the design, reduction in administration/alerts, etc.) since moving to the Nutanix platform. The topic of a server refresh has arisen, and we're beginning to collect all the different metrics we will need to analyze to support this effort. After that's done, though, the planning and designing will begin. In the past, I've used the Nutanix Sizer. That since seems to be locked away behind a Nutanix/Partner Login page now? Does this still exist? Is there one that supports the Dell hardware platform line? Any other workload sizing resources for the theoretical migration planning would be much appreciated. Thanks, in advance!

We've setup Prism Central long time ago and everything works in the Prism Central since it's Active Directory Integrated. We can also login using the Admin account in the Portal. How can we change the Prsim Central CVM Password if we no longer can access it.

Is there a way to export/import/backup configuration of Prism Central / Element?

Hi All, I upgraded our single node cluster last night, and it went pretty smooth. However, today I am noticing placeholder text (i.e. "vm_critical_alerts" instead of "Critical Alerts" and many, many fields coming back simply as undefined. Is this a known issue or did something go awry during upgrade? [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2304iCFA531E337844718.png[/img] SSP is also not working, but I'm active in another thread for that. Thanks! Tim

Hello, i ran into an error with my OS-Deployment via SCCM on my AHV cluster. I apply the Nutanix related drivers in the Tasksequence with following query: [b][i]Select * from Win32_ComputerSystem Where Model LIKE "KVM"[/i][/b] This worked for me all the time. After i migrated the cluster to AOS5.0 this step is skipped in the tasksequence with a message that says that this condition is FALSE. Could it be, that a newly created vm an a AOS5.0 based cluster displays another Model?My running vms on this cluster still show KVM as modul, so i'm a little bit confused.

I am trying to find a download link for AOS 4.7.3.1. It looks like only 4.7.3.3 is available. Where would I find a link to download older AOS versions?

What is the best approach to migrate data to a nutanix hyper-v failover cluster from a normal hyper-v failover cluster. I used export from the old host (Whitelisted in PRISM) and it succeeds fine but as the data is exported to the cluster FQDN, how do I know which node to use to import the files to make best use of data locality? is there a way to have the VM exported to a specific node?

Hi all We have a small DEV 3 node lab to test features before moving forward, one feature in 5.0 we are looking forward too is the Self service portal, after upgrading to 5.0 I have selected the SSP which then asks for an ldap user, although this user authenticates correctly from Prism / Authentication / test When entering the same user in the cresentials for SSP I get the following error; Server with access directory url:ldaps://****** is down Has anyone seen this? is ldaps supported? as mentioned it works for Prism authentication This clutser is not under support, we are looking at a dev support option for this currently but we do have many other clusters Thanks Jason

This is very minor but I wanted to get it out there. I'm running PrismCentral 4.7.3.3 to manage 6 clusters - each of those other 6 clusters are at AOS 4.7.3.1 however, in PrismCentral, under 'Explore', 'Clusters', the AOS version is still showing as the original version. It's been several weeks like this now (see below). [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2169i71C3E3B2EA638A99.png[/img] Interestingly, when I select any of those clusters in PrismCentral, the version is shown accurately; [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2171iDACD4445D16EC1E2.png[/img]

Hi All, Thanks for caring.. My Name Rizki, you can call me R.P so here my problem, i'm strugle when i try to install/reimaging block NX-1065-g5 my component to reimaging this is AOS 4.7.3.3 Foundation 3.6 Hypervisor AHV-20160601.44 from what i know in compatibility matrix is the component compatible but... i strugle when i reach 12%imaging, it stuck at "preparing blablaba installer" anybody can advice me? or do you any solution Thanks R.P

Hi , I am facing issue with foundation VM based process.Installation failed after phoenix got installed with fataling errorAs well as throwing error as foundation failed configuring IPMI ip's [i did manually configured iDrac IP's before starting foundation ][img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2127i3D11472F80496F3D.jpg[/img]

Hi, I upgraded BMC Firmware from 03.24 to -> 03.40 via IPMI UI today since that i can check the version of BMC on IPMI UI page that its 03.40 upgraded among 3nodes which i upgraded but its not the same on PRISM even its accomplished. i can only see that BMC Firmware 03.40 isnt upgraded on PRISM among 3nodes i use AOS 4.7.3.2 with AHV Nutanix 20160601.44 [img]https://d1qy7qyune0vt1.cloudfront.net/nutanix-us/attachment/2107iA6B3D2779D7382C9.png[/img] additionally, i have this fail message via conducting ncc health check funtion All 4nodes have intel CPU in them. The messages showing like this Detailed information for bmc_bios_version_check:Node 192.168.x.204FAIL: No Intel CPU is found on the node.Node 192.168.x.205FAIL: No Intel CPU is found on the node.Node 192.168.x.206FAIL: No Intel CPU is found on the node.Node 192.168.x.207FAIL: No Intel CPU is found on the node.Refer to KB 3565 ([url=http://portal.nutanix.com/kb/3565]http://portal.nutanix.com/kb/3565[/url]) for de

Dear Expert, My Nutanix environment as per below: 4block of Nutanix ( 8 Node ) connect to Nexus Access Switch with 10G SPF cable. Hypervisor: VMware 5.5 Issue: from vCenter we detect the host keep disconnected randomly. and vCenter become HANG Workaround: Ping continuously on Host. Result No packet drop can you please advise what need to do Regards, Hamballi