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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....

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9 months ago
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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...

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4 years ago
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

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6 months ago
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mohamed-ali Voyager

How To enable nested virtualization on AHV?
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How To enable nested virtualization on AHV?

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5 months ago
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...

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3 years ago
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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...

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1 year ago
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adamlw Adventurer

External Data Service IP and Non Routed iSCSI

Good Day Folks:I am in the process of turning up some Windows Server/SQL Failover clusters using the in-guest iSCSI method. Working as intended with one default NIC on each Windows Failover Cluster VM (when they are in the same subnet as the external services ip/segment). However I started looking...

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3 months ago
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alexxdavid Trailblazer

Hyper-V 2016

When will Hyper-V 2016 be compatible?

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1 year ago
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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?

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1 year ago
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...

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3 years ago
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jmilic Pathfinder

SQL Clusters on Nutanix

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

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7 months ago
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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?

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4 years ago
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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...

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1 year ago
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...

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2 years ago
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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

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5 months ago
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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

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3 years ago
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PeterLind Voyager

KVM VM on AHV?
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Hi, AHV is based on KVM, but I can't find any documentation that states that you actuelly can run/move KVM VMs on AHV. Can anyone confirm this? We have a customer who wishes to move their KVM VMs to our AHV environment. 🙂 So we want to confirm that it is possible. Best regards Peter

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4 months ago
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petep Adventurer

Running OpenDNS VA in AHV
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We attempted to migrate our ODNS as well as setup new VM's in AHV by extracting the vmdk's but each time we get the below screen on boot. Has anyone else successfully got the ODNS VA to run in AHV? I've tried editing the vm's xml file to change the video type and vram but no luck as of yet:

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3 months ago
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Adam NCG

iSCSI Networking
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Hi I'm looking to created clustered files servers using Windows Server Failover Clustering - VMs will be in-guest, i'm using AHV. My understanding that presenting the Nutanix storage via iSCSI to WSFC servers is supported however i'm confused about how to setup the networking and the Nutanix ABS d...

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3 months ago
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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

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3 days ago
cmcgee Adventurer

AHV Deploying FortiAuthenticator
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I'm trying to deploy FortiAuthenticator v5.5 VM but running into issues on AHV. I've tried creating the VM using the files from Fortinet but no instructions when using AHV per this guide: https://s3.amazonaws.com/fortinetweb/docs.fortinet.com/v2/attachments/5795878a-1f78-11e9-b6f6-f8bc1258b856/...

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4 months ago
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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?

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10 months ago
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ANiel Adventurer

Error adding HyperV feature on Server 2016
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Attempting to add the Hyper-V feature to a fresh Server 2016 VM. I receive the message: "Hyper-V cannot be installed because virtualization support is not enabled in the BIOS" After picking through some very limited search results I attempted to modify the VM using "cpu_passthrough=true", howeve...

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2 months ago
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chunyen2020 Voyager

How to "size" a Nutanix cluster based on performance requirement?
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Hi guys, we're planning to move/migrate my MS SQL workload from physical standalone host to a new Nutanix cluster. We already engaged with local Nutanix representative for this. However, we encountered a few hurdles in terms of performance during and we can't be sure whether we have the right sizing...

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3 months ago
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Warana Voyager

100% CPU Usage on all my hosts
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In the last few weeks we have been experiencing complete host CPU usage at 100% on all of our host(6 of them). We were never this high. When the system is at this level no one can do much on the ystem for a few minutes. The biggest change we did was add Bitdefender Gravity Zone to our system. We ha...

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3 months ago

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