Server Virtualization

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

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matthew Voyager

VMware ESXi Best Practices

Greetings community members! I am brand new to the Nutanix platform and have completed my basic initial configuration of my nodes on ESXi 5.5U2, however I am having trouble finding (not through lack of Google-fu) a complete guide on what Nutanix recommends as BPs for configuring hosts for ESXi....

tenKe Adventurer

IOPS&Latency issue

Hello mates, We have 2x NX3350 and Arista switch which handle roughly 100 VM. Workloads are: 20x VM with heavy disk workload which are used mainly for reporting and analysis. R/W ratio is roughly 50/50. They created 20K IOPS workload when they lived on SAN storage with RAID10 and tiny flash tier a...

joshodgers Moderator

VMware vNetworking NIC Teaming & Failover Recommendation

The following shows the available Load Balacing options currently available in vSphere 5.5 along with the recommended configuration for Nutanix environments for both Virtual Distributed Switches (VDS) and Virtual Standard Switches (VSS). NIC Teaming & Failover Recommendation

mluksch Adventurer

KVM Hypervisor - Management

Hello all, I'm wondering if there is anyone out there using Nutanix with KVM as a hypervisor, and if so, what kind of management do you use for daily VM related admin jobs? - virsh/virt-manager ? - RHEV/virto ? - OpenStack on top? - other "cloud solution"? - custom tools/scripts ? Please sha...

alexxdavid Trailblazer

Hyper-V 2016

When will Hyper-V 2016 be compatible?

mohamed-ali Voyager

How To enable nested virtualization on AHV?

How To enable nested virtualization on AHV?

Icebun Adventurer

Migrate VMs with boot firmware set to UEFI from VMware ESXi 5.5 to AVH

I have a large number of VMs created with the boot firmware set to EFI. As I understand it, AHV cannot convert "out of the box" The options I have been told include the following:- Use VMware Convertor to perform a virtual to virtual VM conversion to change the boot firmware back to BIOS Use a...

DaemonBehr Trailblazer

Openstack on Nutanix

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I'm trying to get as much information as I can for Openstack on Nutanix, but it seems to be slim pickings these days! I see here that Nutanix is an Openstack foundation sponsor: http://www.nutanix.com/partners/alliances/ And I quote: "Nutanix provides a single scalable data fabric which inte...

jmilic Pathfinder

SQL Clusters on Nutanix

Anyone running Traditional SQL Clusters on a Nutanix / HyperV implementation?

rsciaraffo Adventurer

Microsoft Exchange Server

Is anyone running Microsoft Exchange on their Nutanix cluster? If so, approximately how many mailbox databases (EDBs) are you running and what is the approximate size of each? Also, overall feedback/thoughts of the performance of your Exchange environment on the Nutanix cluster?

simonpink Voyager

What are the guest OS supported on AHV?

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Is there a definitive list of guest operating systems that are supported on AHV?

bartvp Wayfarer

SAP on Nutanix

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Does anyone have some experience with running SAP on Nutanix, doesn't matter if it runs on HyperV or VMware. Oracle or MS SQL is ok. Just looking for some feedback and best practices. Kind regards Bart

karipap Pathfinder

Red Hat support

Hi I am an absolute noob so please be gentle to me. Can I know if Nutanix supports applications built that run on Red Hat Enterprise Linux? Basically, I have many applications that run on RHEL 7 that I am in the process of virtualizing using RHEV. So when I googled and saw this article belo...

seaton Trailblazer

Change VM NIC Mac Address Acropolis

Hi all, I have a requirement with one of our migrated servers to retain its original MAC Address due to licensing. I've migrated the machine only to find these requirements post migration, so the Question is how can I change the VM MAC address? Thanks, Stephen...

jcytam Adventurer

PostgreSQL Performance

Hi Does anyone having experience or recommendation for tuning Postgresql Server Workload on Nutanix? We followed the Nutanix SQL Server Best Practices and Micheal Webster's Recommandations for vDisk and LVM layout at: http://longwhiteclouds.com/2014/11/27/performance-testing-mysql-and-postgresql...

Hamballi Adventurer

Nutanix with Nexus Switch

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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...

OnderAvcu Adventurer

Migrate from VMware to AHV - stuck Booting from Hard Disk...

I am migrating from ESX 6.0 to AHV 5.1.2I have successfully mounted the container from VMware and migrated a disk. When trying to start the image from the vmdk file in Prism Console than I get the following error: Booting from Hard Disk... in the boot dos screen. Regards, Onder Avcu

bkothandan Nutanix Employee

RDM Mapping in Nutanix XCP

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Hello All, I am new to "Nutanix XCP, One basic question regarding the Raw device mapping in Esxi using the Nutanix infrastructure. Is RDM mapping supported in the Nutanix Appliance4.6 (Nos)? If yes, Can you please share the procedure to Create a RDM (Physical mode)?.. Thanks, Bhoopathy

CTI Trailblazer

AHV vcpu vs vcores

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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

joshodgers Moderator

Best practices for VMware vSphere HA

The following tables show the recommended configuration of VMware High Availability. Admission Control The below table shows the percentage values required for N+1 through N+4 availability for vSphere clusters of up to 32 (The Current maximum cluster size for vSphere 5.5). The green highlighted v...

vcdxnz001 Nutanix Employee

SQL Clusters on Nutanix and NOS 4.1.5

Hi All, Just wanted to let you know that using traditional SQL failover clusters and SQL FCI, or any MSCS / Microsoft failover cluster is available in tech preview as of NOS 4.1.5. This is because we have introduced SCSI 3 Persistent Reservations to the iSCSI stack. To implement a cluster you need...

NewVirtTom Trailblazer

NUTANIX & NSX

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Hi guys, I'm still digging to give corrects answer to my manager who is puting pros and cons for nutanix on the table. As I need to make a design without knowing exactly where he want to go, I'm making assomption on it. I understood that they wanted to put NSX on it VRA and vCloud SP. I've fo...

seaton Trailblazer

Problems with drivers on 2012R2 DataCentre edition

G'day one and all, We're a new nutanix site and have been migrating machines from our previous HyperVisor over to Acropolis/KVM. Our older servers have been no problems at all, 2003 and 2008 servers. however all our 2012R2 servers are having problems where the storage drivers are not being seen...

Brado-Mski Adventurer

CVM Resources Allocation

Hey Everyone. So, I am relatively new to the whole Nutanix game. Im curious what everyone is suggestion is for CVM allocation. We had nutanix do our original provisioning, but the provisions the installer set it up with seem a bit excessive. 10 Cores and 32gb ram per CVM, Any thoughts?

rami Trailblazer

Does Nutanix Support SQL Cluster on ESXI5.5?

Hi All , As you know that to build a SQL cluster on vmware vsphere 5.5 I need to create RDM disk for both cluster's nodes with physical compitilty , and this will eliminate the vsphere from running vmotion (need to shutdown the host to migrate )since it is not supported. My question is : does nut...

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