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 advanced VM management with Single VM Applications.

Hi All, I am in the progress of launching a blueprint via CALM. However encountered the IP not found error. How do we add the IP address to the Blueprint VM Configuration? Have filled up all possible network related fields: Network adapters (NICS) : NIC 1 - VLAN0 Connection: Address - NIC 1 From the logs: Waiting for 60 seconds to finish the guest customization Reapplying micro segmentation categories Waiting for VM a2b28676-fa5d-4ab3-a1bb-04cdc9351727 to get an IP ERROR: Failed to get an IP for the VM a2b28676-fa5d-4ab3-a1bb-04cdc9351727 It seems that it is stuck in the Guest customization issue. Should I be adding an ip address in the script? Thank you!

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

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

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! I have a problem. When I try to create, delete or do a other action I always get the SYS_FAILURE but the Tasks goes through and work perfectly. After that I try to delete the action that was created but there I get again the SYS_FAILURE I work with VMware. There I cant find an error the VMs are created and deleted when I do the specific Action, so it has to be a Calm configuration error. Has anyone experienced this in some way? Thanks for your response!

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 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.

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.

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 adding VMware vCenter as a cloud provider to be utilized with Calm.

Hi When a blueprint creates an appliction the values of the variables are displayed on the overview page of the application. However if the variables contain calm macros, for example @ @{address}@@ then that text is display and not the value of the macro. I have a blueprint which creates a web service that the user who runs the blueprint needs to connect to using their web browser. My idea was to have the URL in a variable so it would appear in the overview page and the user could just copy and paste it into their browser. It would be even better if the blueprint could open the web page for the user.

Nutanix Technology Champion (NTC) David Brett wrote a great blog on building your first Nutanix blueprint. It's super detailed and I thought I would share in hopes that it would inspire you to try it out. Nutanix Calm – Creating Your First Citrix Blueprint You can download Nutanix Community Edition and install Prism Central to try out Calm. Have you used Calm? Have any blueprints to share? Share your story in this forum.

Hi I have a calm blue print which the user can use to create an app which does some processing depending on the value of variables specified by the user and stores the result in persistent storage. But then the user has to remeber to delete the application. Is there any way to get the blue print to delete the application affter it has done the processing? I can shutdown the VM by having the service start call service stop with a task to execute "shutdown -h +1" but that still leaves the app

I deployed a Nutanix Cluster (AOS version 5.8) with ESXi 6.5. And I deployed a Prism Central 5.8 on it. There're some articles on internet, saying App Management supports ESXi, starting from PrismCentral version 5.7. Is it true? In my case, I can't find Self Service & Apps from the pull-down list, when I click question mark icon in the main menu on PrismCentral 5.8. I did see "PC Scale out", "Enable app management" and "Microsegmentation", but not "Self Service & Apps". When I click "Enable app management", I see the following error. Precheck failures: Host Cluster Registered Please check that the cluster on which this Prism Central is hosted is registered to it. I had already registered my Nutanix cluster into this PrismCentral. It looks to me that App management or self service doesn't support ESXi, correct? Or is there anything I missed?

Hello, I'm curious if anyone else has had issue getting Windows authentication with WS-man setup within CALM for the Login Check and remote execution of scripts. I have followed the docs and redone the setup a few times for validation, but the login check still fails with a vague error that just says to check out WINRM troubleshooting help. What's odd is that after I provision the Windows image, I can manually invoke commands for remote execution and login with the following command against the newly provisioned IP: PS C:\Users\Administrator> Invoke-Command -ComputerName 10.32.4.246 -ScriptBlock { $PSVersionTable.PSversion } -Credential administrator@domain.com My Karan service is installed and configured with a domain administrator, all PS commands in the document have been run as "administrator" on the Karan server and the target base Windows image as required. CredSSP has been run on the Karan server to al

I know in Calm you can create variables in the service, and then use those variables throughout the config using @@{service.variable}@@. However, it doesn't seem like you can use those in cloud-init scripts. I'd like to be able to pass a variable that the user sets at the time of deployment (the IP address), which would then be used in the cloud-init script. I've tried something like this, to no avail: code:#cloud-confighostname: HAProxy1fqdn: HAProxy1.domain.comssh_pwauth: yeswrite_files: - path: /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0 content: | DEVICE=eth0 BOOTPROTO="none" IPADDR="@@{HAProxy1.IP_Address}@@" PREFIX="24" GATEWAY="172.25.51.254" DOMAIN="VIPCUSTOMERS.COM VTINFO.COM" DEFROUTE="yes" ONBOOT="yes" DNS1="172.25.51.10" DNS2="172.25.51.2"

Using CALM, it seems the best way to deploy VMs is from a VM image that you add to the Image Configuration store. However, when using Prism Central, it doesn't seem this is possible with ACLI to create an image from an AHV VM. How are people taking an AHV VM in PC inventory and making an image out of it so that you can add it to the image configuration repository? Thanks!

Hi Everyone, The application blueprint in calm I can select a VM templates from image service but when I going to make deploy I can't choose container target and My VMs are create in image container. Thanks,

Nutanix recently announced the release of Nutanix Calm, an application orchestration and lifecycle management product in the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud platform. In this demo, we show you how a custom application blueprint created in vRealize Automation (vRA) can be reproduced on Nutanix Calm. Here, the original application was provisioned on vSphere through the vRealize portal, and we demonstrate the same application provisioned on AHV through Prism Central. In addition, external integrations that were custom developed in vRealize Orchestrator (vRO) to automate customer specific processes can be leveraged as-is within the Calm blueprints. In this demo we demonstrate leveraging existing vRO integrations in: IPAM integration with InfoBlox, loadbalancer deployment and management with F5, Chef cookbooks to deploy NGINX and MongoDB, and ServiceNow ticketing integration. We also demonstrate additional lifecycle operations that can be easily imple