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administration and deployment of hci infrastructures.

Dienstag, 16. Dezember 2025

Unable to register PE in PC due to Blacklist / "The cluster is blacklisted on prism central."

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  When trying to register the PE again to PC, you will encounter the following error: The cluster is blacklisted on Prism Central or The clu...
Dienstag, 2. Dezember 2025

Nutanix Node Expansion Precheck Failed - Failure in pre expand-cluster tests. SSD tier on nodes is not sized to accomodate expected metadata growth on cluster kb-8842

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The error is to be expected when existing older clusters with fullflash nodes are expanded with full-NVMe nodes. Typically, the NVMe Models ...
Donnerstag, 16. Oktober 2025

Broadcom / Vmware VCSA and Lifecycle Manager Updates cannot be downloaded (due to missing download token)

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  ( Important Update: Changes to How You Download VMware Software Binaries - VMware Cloud Foundation (VCF) Blog ) It is necessary, to gene...

Problems using LCM for SPP Updates after changing Hosts to UEFI/Secure Boot on HPE HW prior Gen11

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After changing Boot Settings to UEFI/Secure Boot on HPE HW prior to Gen11, phoenix is unable to boot due to missing SecureBoot Keys, so FW U...
Freitag, 10. Oktober 2025

Change Cluster an Storagecontainer from RF2 to RF3

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 You can change your FT Level from 1N/1D to 2N/2D (if you have 5 or more Hosts) in the Prism GUI: Then you have to change the RF at Storagec...
Mittwoch, 2. April 2025

Migrating Nutanix Files Cluster via Async PD to another cluster

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If you want to use Async PD for File Server Migration purposes: Create the Storage Container on the Target Side. Create a Remote Site from t...

Accessing Nutanix Storage Containers for upload/download

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  If you need to download/upload files to a storage container:   Open WinSCP. Connect to the CVM IP using SFTP protocol and port 2222. Login...
Sonntag, 16. März 2025

Nutanix with ESXi - Unable to boot into Phoenix using One-Click Update with Secureboot enabled

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We had the problem with some customers who used Nutanix with vSphere that the host could not boot into phoenix during the one-click update. ...
Freitag, 17. Januar 2025

Problems with HPE Nodes after adding 2nd CPU

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This Problem occured on HPE DX380 Gen10, but I think it will be on other vendors too. After adding 2nd CPU, the CVM will not boot as PCI dev...
Donnerstag, 20. Juni 2024

Migrate Server 2003 VMs form vSphere to Nutanix (AHV)

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 How to migrate W2003 VMs form vSphere to Nutanix (totally unsupported but usefull sometimes). Should also work for XP, W2000 is only possib...
Mittwoch, 13. März 2024

Show HPE iLO Advanced Key

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The ilo advanced key is not displayed completely in the HTML interface and is censored by XXXX You can display it as xml with the following ...
Montag, 20. November 2023

Adding / changing uplinks in vs0 virtual switch configuration failed at nutanix single node cluster

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The update of a virtual switch vs0 failed at nutanix single node clusters because the cluster is unable to perform a rolling reboot. You hav...
Freitag, 10. November 2023

Expanding Cluster different Vendor / License Class

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 If you got problems at expanding your cluster with nodes from different vendor, be carefull as this is not supported. Sometimes you have to...
Mittwoch, 1. Februar 2023

Error installing SSL certifcate on VCenter 7.0.3

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Error occurred while fetching tls: String index out of range: - 1   If you've got this error while replacing the Certificate through the...
Mittwoch, 18. Januar 2023

HPE SPP Installation not possible via LCM on HPE DX Hosts

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If somebody accidentaly updated Firmwares on a HPE DX Node manually, it won't be possible to install Firmwares (SPP) on the node via LCM...
Mittwoch, 26. Oktober 2022

Cleanup /home partition CVM if kb1540 does not help

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If the kb article 1540 at Nutanix to clean up the CVMs does not help, the clickstream folder can be cleaned up. please run the following com...
Dienstag, 5. Juli 2022

Modify Password Expiry for Nutanix admin

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To view current password age for admin user, execute chage command as follows: nutanix@cvm$ sudo chage -l admin Last password change        ...
Donnerstag, 3. März 2022

Nutanix LCM Lifecycle Manager Catalog Cleanup

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If LCM Firmwareupdates (i.g. HPE DX SPP Updates) cannot be applied, you can try the following steps: 1. Clear Browser Cache if clearing does...
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Montag, 14. Februar 2022

Cant' register vCenter in Nutanix

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 If you can't register vCenter in Nutanix as a wrong IP is discovered, check vpxa.cfg on the ESXi Hosts. Possibly you have to change the...
Donnerstag, 20. Januar 2022

Change VCSA FQDN and IP in a Nutanix Environment

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 Change VCSA FQDN and IP in a Nutanix Environment: First, check everything is up an running and there are no problems at all. Be sure, you h...
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