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Discussions about Multi-Hypervisors Microsoft Hyper-V, VMware ESXi, and Nutanix AHV.

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Application-consistent VM snapshots for recent versions of RHEL, CentOS, Windows Server

We are looking to do application-consistent snapshots of VMs running recent releases of RHEL, CentOS and Windows Server on AHV. However, the following document indicates that releases such as RHEL 7.4+, CentOS 7.4+ and Windows Server 2019 are not yet supported: Conditions for Application-consistent...

Windows 2012 on AHV. After reboot it is not able to detect vdisk

Operating System : MS Window 2012 serverHypervisor : AHVIssues :A windows server with the above mentioned OS is running on Nutanix Cluster (AHV). The VM is not able to access via the PE while launch console it show a black screen. However, its still able to RDP into the server and the applications i...

Virtual Machines automatic restart on AHV

Hello All, I have 01 NX-1065-G6 block including 3 nodes. AOS Version : 5.10.5 AHV Version : 20170830.279 After a power outage, I would like virtual machines to start automatically in a predefined order; for instance, domain controller first, Exchange server secondly, and so forth... With ESXi I c...

dedicated CPU allocation

Hi, I'm a little bit new a Nutanix, however since last summer I can handle it very well Now I got a question wich I want to share here. I have to prepare a windows server. The requirments of the software wich will be hosted on this server preverene dedicated CPU and memory. So is this in the nutanix...

VM memory dump creation procedure for Acropolis (VM)

HelloI am interested in the possibility to get a VM memory dump for further analysis (list of processes, sockets, other artifacts). How to do it if using the KVM hypervisor (Acropolis).I need to create a dump on a running VM for analysis. A detailed description of the procedure is required. If I und...

Using HashiCorp Packer to deploy a VM

Hello! I’m new to the Nutanix community. Loving the tech so far, but... Has anyone used Packer to deploy Windows from within AHV? I’ve seen plenty of how-to’s on how to create a VM image that can be uploaded to AHV. I want to do the entire process within the cluster. Packer has a QEMU builder but...

Tweaking performance of vNICs on VMs

Processing power doubles endlessly, it seems, and become less and less expensive. Applications, at the same time, are developed with less of resources efficiency in mind and thus demand more and more resources. And so the spiral grows. While in most cases it is not an issue and performance is not i...

RedHat Satellite Nutanix Provider

Hi Together Is there a way automatically provisioning Linux Server on Nutanix Platform with RedHat Satellite? It doen’t seem there is a nutanix provider for satellite. And this link covers only Redhat subscription management https://www.nutanix.com/blog/simplified-subscription-management-for-ahv-w...

Problem exporting files from Nutanix NFS

I'm trying to move our vms from one cluster to another but the built in remote site don't work so now I'm trying to manually move the vmdisk files to the other cluster but the NFS connection stops working after a while. I have tried to mount the NFS share in a ESXi server but the transfer errors o...

Does nutanix virt-who require satellite?

Hello. I’m a long time vmware guy, but due to a merger our esx cluster is getting migrated to a nutanix AHV cluster before long. I currently run rhel 7 and 8, with virt-who registering directly with RedHat. I patch our few dozen nodes generally with scripts or manually just depending. In researc...

NSX-T Support on Nutanix Infrastructure

What is NSX-T ?NSX-T provides customers a way to run software-defined networking infrastructure. NSX-T data center provides networking, security and automation for cloud-native applications, bare metal workloads, multi-hypervisor environments, public clouds, and multiple clouds. NSX-T is designed to...

VM creation automation

Hello All,I am new to Nutanix and AHV; however, I have a large amount of experience with Hyper-v and SCVMM. One of the things I am trying to do is automate the creation of a vm’s. My end goal is to take an “image” base drive I have uploaded to images containing an install of my windows OS.Deploy a n...

Has anyone gotten the Nutanix virt-who rpm to work on RHEL 6.x and Satellite v6.x?

I am trying to install the Nutanix virt-who v1.1 rpm on RHEL 6.10 to talk to Red Hat Satellite v6.3. I have installed the virt-who rpm with its dependencies except for systemd (which does not exist for RHEL v6), installed Python 2.7 from the Software collections rpm, set the “scl enable python27 ba...

MSCS (Microsoft Server Cluster)

Does AHV supports MSCS ? I am aware about two node windows cluster with witness VM mentioned in below : https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/docs/details?targetId=Web-Console-Guide-Prism-v58:wc-cluster-two-node-c.html But just want to confirm if it supports MSCS with shared storage including quorum?

Windows VMs unexpected crash / reboot on AHV Clusters with BugCheck Code 0x109 or 0xFC

Reported Issue: Nutanix has identified an issue Windows VMs may crash and reboot unexpectedly hosted on AHV Cluster with following bug checks: CRITICAL_STRUCTURE_CORRUPTION (0x109) ATTEMPTED_EXECUTE_OF_NOEXECUTE_MEMORY (0xFC) Solution: If you are experiencing above issue, Nutanix recomm...

Windows Admin Center

Environment: Windows Server 2019 version 1809 (core and with graphical user interface). At the moment I am working for a customer to do migrations to Windows Server 2019. Since the migration of the virtual environment by the customer from VMWare VSphere 6.xxx to Nutanix AHV, version 20170830.412 I...

ESXi 6.7u3 Patch - 1-click upgrade - Not compatible with current VIBs

I ugraded my ESXi hosts using 1-click upgrade to VMware-VMvisor-Installer-6.7.0.update03-15160138.x86_64-DellEMC_Customized-A04 with no issues. Trying to apply patch ESXi670-202004002.zip using 1-click upgrade and get the following error: Upgrade bundle is not compatible with current VIBs installed...

P2V Windows 10 to AHV

Hi All, I am trying to migrate one Windows 10 PC to Nutanix Acropolis. I tried to run a full backup with Veeam endpoint and tried the baremetal recovery in to Nutanix and that did not work. I tried this method for almost all of our servers (but they are already on nutanix) to restore into our tes...

Live Migration for VMs fail between Hyper-V hosts in same cluster

Hello Folks, I see usually after satadom replacement of Hyper-V reinstallation we get errors in Live migration related to processor specific features. You can looks at the KB-6617 “Live Migration of VMs fails on Windows Server 2012 R2 or 2016 with processor compatibility error” We have couple of...

Live Cloning VM drives to another VM

Hi everybody we are just in the beginning of the process of migrating our environment from VMWare to AHV. One of the scenarios that we need to consider for one of our application sets involves cloning an entire drive from a build server to a reporting server. Essentially right now I have a server...

Logging VM Activity Events in Prism

There was a thread back in 2016 regarding getting VM activity events logged in Prism (PE or PC). Events such as powering on and off a VM should be displayed in PE or PC so we can try to track down when a reboot may have occurred easily. This has been a core VMware vCenter function for ages, but is...

How To enable nested virtualization on AHV?

How To enable nested virtualization on AHV?

Adding files to ADSF Path for bootstrapping

When creating a vm there is a scripting section that has the option to select a file from an ADSF Path. How can I put files to an ADSF location?

VM network Troubleshooting

Hello, If you use balance-slb, how does one figure out which physical is being used by one VM ? For instance, with ESXi I’d run esxtop, and I can see which physical nic is being “mapped” to my virtual nic. Is it possible with AHV? If yes how ? I think it is important when you troubleshoot.

Cisco Unified Communications on Nutanix

Next Community, Nutanix has developed Best Practices for designing and deploying Cisco Unified Communications on Nutanix. I wanted to share those resources with you here in the community and use this space to talk about the subject. Best Practices Guide with example deployments:http://go.nutanix...

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