Self-Service

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through creating a Single VM blueprint to deploy onto Public Clouds, enabling you to quickly provide Infrastructure as a Service to your end users.

Overview Integrating Nutanix Calm and Ansible is straightforward. This series walk you through the different steps to get your integration ready. Part 3 focuses on deploying a Multi-Machine Application, how you deploy Consul on a three virtual servers. Code The blueprint and code used in this part can be found here. Requirement Ansible Tower or Ansible AWX Blog series Part 1: Inventory Management Part 2: Launching a Job Template Enjoy the video and let us know if you have any question!  

I have attempted to create a VM recovery point on Prism Central and revert it from the recovery point. However, I am getting an info-level message that the recovery point is degraded and that the recovery Point for VM failed to capture associated policies and categories because the network name is not available for the VM.The VM revert task also does not seem to have been executed as there is no event confirming success. The VM is created from a blueprint that is part of a project with a configured VPC, and I have already verified that there are no issues in connection between PC and PE. May I know possible reasons for why this is happinening and how I might resolve this? I have consulted the link https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000CyDeCAK but it seems to be targeted at VMs running on ESXi, our VMs run on AOS/AHV. Thanks!

Importing an existing Calm blueprint is simple from the UI. But what if you need to automate it? In this video, Laura Jordana shows how to leverage the Calm API to import a blueprint programmatically using Postman.  

Calm allows Nutanix Enterprise customers to seamlessly select, provision, deploy & manage their Business Apps across all their infrastructure, both private and public cloud. Nutanix Calm ties together an AppStore, App Lifecycle, Monitoring & Remediation by providing a single control-point for managing heterogeneous infrastructure, be it VMs or containers, or even bare metal servers. Calm will eventually support all the components required to manage a complete Software Defined Data Center.Calm is deployed alongside SSP in the Prism Central VM. Calm consumes multiple Nutanix internal services and is not a standalone component. By extension, users must have a Nutanix Prism Central VM to enable Calm functionalityUse Cases Automation for complex applications, not only provisioning, but also self service. Enable application self service for multiple teams. Setup complex applications with a single click. Quickly get dev/test environments ready to go. Prerequisites we need to con

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through utilizing VM Pre-Create and Post-Delete tasks to easily integrate virtual machines with third party software like Active Directory or IP Address Management.

Hi all,I have a requirement to automate patching of Operating systems (Windows and Linux) For example - the process would be, Take a snapshot of the server, deploy the updates, test the server services are functioning as expected, if not restore the snapshot.Customer is using ManageEngine Desktop Central which is being used to deploy software and patch client computers.Is it possible to integrate Calm with ManageEngine Desktop Central to achive above automation ?If not what would be alternate way and its overall workflow ? I am looking for direction and some supportive.

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through modifying a Nutanix Marketplace blueprint to be used with VMware.

What is Calm? Calm (Cloud Application LifeCycle Management) is a DevOps Automation Platform that models applications and integrates your teams, governance, and life cycle operations to manage your applications, calm includes: Single pane of glass for all of your applications, making infrastructure invisible Visual Infrastructure, Operations, and Governance as code Works with public + private cloud, and containers nuCalm = nutanix Calm, our new platform in PC Calm has some prerequisites such as a minimum AOS version supported and ports that must be open for the feature to work. See the full prerequisite here. Note: Nutanix Calm is not supported on Hyper-V clusters. Nutanix Calm does not support vSphere essential edition. If you try to enable Calm with vSphere essential edition license, you get a failure notification because hot-pluggable virtual hardware is not supported by vSphere Essentials. Check out this getting started page for the full documentation or go to a specific page: Enab

 https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-management-55/os-patching-automation-with-calm-39677With reference to my previous thread, I have below doubts pertaining to achieving automation of Windows hosts patching over Nutanix AHV infra.Process would be like - Take a snapshot of the server, deploy the updates, test the server services are functioning as expected, if not restore the snapshot.Can it be achieved without using Calm? I mean by only using Ansible/Chef along with WSUS? What will be overall workflow for this? Any other 3rd party tools I will need to use for the same?I am looking for open source and cost effective approach here.Any Help/Direction will be highly appreciated.

Maybe it is helpful for some others: when I'm deploying a preseeded blueprint I face the issue that the default timeout for the "check login" is too low; the result is that the application deployment throws an error: "script execution has failed with error Client cannot connect to the destination specified." After increasing the delay time to 60 seconds the deployment works fine; you find the "Delay" Setting under Service -> VM -> Connection

Nutanix Calm allows you to seamlessly select, provision, and manage your business applications across your infrastructure for both the private and public clouds. Nutanix Calm provides App lifecycle, monitoring and remediation to manage your heterogeneous infrastructure, for example, VMs or bare-metal servers. Nutanix Calm 2.7.1.3 Release Notes Nutanix Calm Download 2.7.1.3 Nutanix Calm Administration and Operations Guide 2.7.1 This release includes the following new and updated features: Multi-Cluster Deployment in CalmYou can map one or more AHV clusters to a project and whitelist subnets from the selected clusters. This gives you flexibility to manage application workloads across AHV clusters within a blueprint.Support for Single VM Blueprint on Public Cloud ProvidersSingle VM blueprint is a framework that you can use to quickly create an instance, provision, and launch applications requiring only a single VM across all providers configured. We have added support for public cloud pro

Hi all.I’ve been searching all over the Internet, and the Nutanix documentation, to figure out how to pass variables from one task in a runbook to the next. I know that I need to print it to the console in the format “statusMessage = ‘This is the status message’” but so far I’ve tried with Write-Host, Write-Output, and Write without any luck.I’ve also tried using both @@{statusMessage}@@ and @@{Task1.statusMessage}@@ in the next step without any difference.How am I supposed to do this, and why isn’t it properly documented?Thanks.

Folks,I have below queries with respect to Calm functionalities,Can Ansible be completely replaced  with Calm in Nutanix automation area? If not, what kind of Ansible tasks can Calm handle? And if I have to differentiate between both, what would be pointers? What other competitive (opensource) products are there in market which gives similar functionalities as Calm?Please help to understand. 

Hi all!In an attempt to solve a problem with “round-tripping” JSON I’ve concluded that the only fix is to use PowerShell 7 since the ConvertTo-Json cmdlet in version 7 allows me to escape the troublesome characters.This solution might just be me robbing Peter to pay Paul though as I now face the issue of getting Calm to use PowerShell 7 instead of the default 5.1 (a.k.a. Windows PowerShell).I’ve gone so far to set the default PowerShell remote endpoint (windows.powershell) to point to PSH 7, which works if I do a traditional Enter-PSSession but not if I execute a PowerShell script in a Calm runbook.Which leads up to the title of this topic, how does Calm execute PowerShell on an endpoint?Since it’s using port 5985 it should be WinRM/WSMAN/remote PowerShell, but it completely ignores the fact that the default PSH remote endpoint is pointing to PSH 7.Is it using another endpoint? Or is it not using WinRM after all?

I have the same question as in topic (https://next.nutanix.com/calm-application-management-55/passing-variables-to-calm-runbooks-39356)I have created a runbook, configured a variable  under the “Configuration” section of the runbook.I can launch the runbook via API, but it does not pass the value.I tried passing the below sample as the body of the request.What am I missing ?  { "spec": { "args": [ { "name": "VariableName", "value": "value" } ] }} 

 Use LCM to display the software and firmware versions of the entities in the cluster.ProcedureIn Prism Central, click the gearbox icon to open the Settings page and select Life Cycle Management in the sidebar. Prism Central opens the Life Cycle Manager page. Click to enlarge Click Options > Perform Inventory. If you do not have auto-update enabled, and a new version of the LCM framework is available, LCM shows a warning message: Click to enlarge Click OK. The LCM displays all discovered entities. To view the current Calm and Epsilon versions, click View All. Click to enlarge   The entity shows the current version, as well as the date and time of the most recent update. Click All Updates to return to the Life Cycle Manager page. Upgrading Calm with the Life Cycle Manager Use LCM to upgrade Calm and Epsilon to the latest available versions. LCM allows you to upgrade Calm or Epsilon independently or simultaneously.  Configure rules in your external firewall to allow LCM updates. F

Hi everyone, i have a trouble with this error: the alert also sent a notification about this error: Discovered that the nucalm internal service is not working: “helios” I restarted all cluster service but there is no change. Then i checked my nutanix docker to log infomations about that, it showed helios still was running. And i follow KB-8621 to collect log of helios.log.1 with the same time in alert, it showed:So anyone can tell me what is the problem with my Calm service? I so appreciate to receive your helps.

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through advanced VM management with Single VM Applications.

Nutanix Calm allows you to deploy and manage applications on Public and Private clouds with the click of a button. In this video, Michael Haigh walks you through setting up a VMware CentOS Template to be used with Calm.

I am looking for a way to protect the VMs that I’ve stood in as Applications in Calm/Self Service from accidental deletion (mostly by me). I don’t see a way to do this in any areas of Prism or Calm, and I don’t see anything in the Policy Manager docs that would address it, either. Is there any kind of pattern or feature for this? Thanks

Previously we covered how easy it is for developers and administrators to deploy an application onto Nutanix Cloud Native due to its adherence to open API standards. We deployed an Oscar e-commerce site, backing it with containers running on Nutanix Karbon, a PostgreSQL database cloned by Nutanix Era, and the static image content stored on Nutanix Buckets. Today, we’re going automate this entire deployment in Nutanix Calm. Calm models applications end-to-end using blueprints, allowing you to deploy those applications across clouds and automate their entire lifecycle from creation to deletion, including rolling updates during the application’s lifecycle. Be sure to read the entire post on our Developer Blog 👍

Or, “How does the ‘Check Login’ step actually work?”I consistently get a TLS error on any attempt to connect to the new VM from CALM. Every time. This is a blocker for me, as I can’t do much to the VMs during provisioning without this connectivity, and I can’t/shouldn’t do everything in the cloud-init step.  I am able to ssh into the new VMs successfully using the same credentials, so I know that the credential is correct, but I don’t think the credential is the issue - the error is happening before the system tries to use it. The screenshots below are from two different blueprint deployments.Script execution has failed with error: tls: first record does not look like a tls handshake.Could not connect to the service running at 1.2.3.4.From a higher level, how does CALM initiate the connection to the new VM when starting the “check login” step? The TLS handshake issue implies a mismatch of HTTP/S protocols, and/or mismatched TLS 1.1/1.2/etc versions. But this is supposed to be an SSH co

I have been relatively successful using a blueprint to define all the tasks and installations to create a solid VM. I now want to bake this VM into an image, so it has all those tasks already performed on it. I tried creating a VM template, but when i launch an instance from it, it has no Dynamic IP assigned. What is, or can someone point me to, the best practice/standard pattern for building a catalog of images with various apps and tasks pre-baked-in, so we don’t have to apply their installation every time?thanks!

Previously we covered importing a Calm Blueprint into your own environment, modifying the necessary fields to customize it, and then deploying a fully functional Nutanix Cloud Native application with Nutanix Calm. Today we’re diving into the architecture of the blueprint. EraNutanix Era is a database management solution that that automates the provisioning and protection of Postgres, MySQL, Oracle, and other databases. Within our Calm blueprint, we’re adding our Era Server as an existing machine, with its IP tied to the era_ip variable covered in the previous post. Continue reading the post on our Developer Blog