https://jkindon.com/citrix-daas-pc-plugin-detail/ a bit more info around the new plugin for PC

Here is a neat of art-of-the-possible concept for our Citrix customers showing how we can sync Citrix Tags to Nutanix Prism Central Categories and back the other way https://www.nutanix.dev/2024/12/18/synchronizing-nutanix-prism-central-categories-and-citrix-tags-for-better-visibility-and-control/ And this builds on the concept by extending the framework out to be automated using Playbooks from PC https://www.nutanix.dev/2024/12/18/synchronizing-nutanix-prism-central-categories-and-citrix-tags-using-prism-central-playbooks/

is there a way to pass metadata into a VM on Nutanix? Or an AHV equivalent to OVF properties on vSphere? If I'm deploying from a template, I can add an IP address field that a script running inside the VM can pick up and use to configure the guest IP address.

Citrix App Layering on Nutanix. While this doesn’t cover everything for App Layering, it covers specifics for integration with Nutanix AHV and Nutanix Files. https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2205-Citrix-App-Layering-on-Nutanix:TN-2205-Citrix-App-Layering-on-Nutanix

I'm playing around with CE 2.1 to replace my vsphere cluster at home, I might remeber wrong but earlier you could download the AHV plugin even with CE. That doesn't seem to be the case now?

Is it not possible to use Protection Domains w/ Windows 11 UEFII VMs? we use that for our nightly snapshots for Windows 10 and our 11 vms don't show as an option

I have some persistent VMs that were built on the Self Service Cluster that does not have compression or dedupe enabled. When using Prism Central to move the disk to the container I want them on that does have compression and dedupe enabled, it takes over an hour per VM. Is that just how long it takes, or an artifact of doing it through PC. Would PE on the CLI be faster? Or is it faster with the VM powered off?

Here is a big update to our Session Recording documentation on Nutanix - for those that use it, this could hopefully be of value - refreshed with a much larger scale of testing https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2179-Citrix-Se[…]-Recording-Nutanix:TN-2179-Citrix-Session-Recording-Nutanix

I tried out the Prism Central integration with Citrix DaaS today. I don't plan to replace our Prism Element machine catalogs with it for two main reasons. Am I off base or missing something? 1. The Prism Central integration deploys MCS machines from Templates. Templates are made up of versions. I do not have the ability to select a "version" of the template to deploy. I assume when selecting a template, the active version is what is deployed. With the AHV based machine catalogs, I can choose individual VM snapshots to deploy. It gives me flexibility to test changes with different machine catalogs before updating a production machine catalog. I foresee a scenario with PC integration where the active version isn't switched and something bad happens one day. 2. I worked with my in house Nutanix engineer to test the integration out. I am at the mercy of his knowledge and I find him very knowledgeable, but something might be missing. In our scenario we have two Prism Centrals. One for production and one for DR. We couldn't wrap our heads around how the integration would help manage the templates between Prism Centrals. He was thinking we would end up maintaining two different Templates, one for each Prism Central. If we had the ability to use Recovery Points, it may be more straight forward. My knowledge of Nutanix replication is highly limited. What we do today and recover the base image in the DR datacenter, take a snapshot, and update the machine catalogs based off the recovered machine and snapshot. I do like how the feature simplifies the management of network resources between clusters. I assume if I had a number of clusters, this feature would be very useful.

So, I put one of the three nodes in to maintenance mode and rebooted, checked the BIOS etc. because I was preparing a 4th node. When I boot the nide backup up and choose exit maintenance mode, it comes back with a CVM failed to start. Opening the console on the running CVM and I see the screenshot. I cannot find anything online. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

this is probably stupid easy but since things moved to the Admin Center I cant find how we did this.......if we wanted to add or remove User Groups that are imported from LDAP in Central , how can we do it? i can't find it for some reason

I need to move a CVAD 2203 environment that is running on Nutanix with vcenter to another datacenter. I don't have much experience with Nutanix.Both datacenters should be using the same version of Nutanix. Can i migrate the VM to the destination datacenter using vmotion in vcenter or do i need to use Nutanix move. Also, if i am using Nutanix move what do i need to check to confirm the virtual machine can be successfully migrated over to the destination datacenter.

Interesting observation......I deleted about 60 vm's last night and our used storage went UP by about a gig. this morning its still higher than it was before we cleared things out. Is this normal for Nutanix and we just have to give it time?

I just got done updating a Win11 non-persistent catalog... the guest thinks it's 43% free, but Nutanix says it's 99% used in PRISM... NCC checks are "clean", curator thinks minimal use on the snapclone... nutanix@NTNX-HOSTNAME184-CVMcc.cc.cc.147~$ curator_cli get_vdisk_usage lookup_vdisk_ids=844552040 Using curator master: cc.cc.cc.144:2010 VDisk usage stats: +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | VDisk Id | Exclusive usage | Logical Uninherited | Logical Dedup | Logical Snapshot | Logical Clone | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ | 844552040 | 632.42 MB | 719.39 MB | 0.00 KB | 0.00 KB | 0.00 KB | +------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------+ @Jarian Gibson Any thoughts when the guest thinks 66GB and PRISM thinks 100GB? We did get done moving this PD from cluster 6 over to Cluster 1 and then deployed it. Did run into KB15888 for something else earlier this week, but not this snapshot.

"Zombie" VMs... Shouldn't Citrix be catching these? I find it hard to believe Arithmos is having a blip on a single VM on a whole cluster for 3 hours... Have several "Zombie" VMs this morning ranging from 1205AM 725AM this morning... I have noted an uptake in Zombie activity since VIRTIO 1.2.3, was going to upgrade to 1.2.4, however there's also a good chance there's guest-level issues... Curious if any Citrix-Nutanix SMEs have any thoughts on this one where Citrix isn't getting the memo and Nutanix shows CPU activity halted, or conversely, any suggestion mitigations... Example hard reboot set on the AHV plugin?

We're looking at upgrading one of our clusters to AOS 7 to support live migration of vGPU-enabled VMs. This will be our first AOS 7 cluster. Anyone doing this today? Anything that should give us pause?

Did anyone have a successful upgrade of NTNX Community Edition AOS to 7.x?

I have a large number of VMs that are built on an incorrect storage container. I'm moving them to a different one via Prism Central, but it limits to 3 at a time per cluster. Is there a way to create a playbook or a queue to move more than just 3 (and avoid having to select them individually?)

Running CE with AHV 10.0.1 and AOS 7.0.1. Needed to replace a hard disk and we improperly assumed hot plug would work. Removed the disk afterwards in Prism Element, and the CVM on that node went offline. Found this blog article (thanks Sean) and followed the steps. When I edit the cvm_config.json and reboot, virsh list -all shows no vms. If a restore the backed up copy of the cvm_config.json, the CVM reappears in the "shut off" state. Does anyone know any other articles etc. that can assist me in editing the file correctly?

I'm seeing an issue with MCS provisioned persistent machines being created with the main disk on the selfservicecontainer rather than the container specified. The source image/snapshot is on the desired storage container (granted I moved it there as it was on the selfservicecontainer originally) and the identity disk is getting created on the proper storage container. Is this an artifact of the source machine originally being on the selfservicecontainer?

I need to move our Gold image VM from one cluster to another - easy enough with a protection domain (can't do it with PC due to reasons). However, that only brings the current VM, not the previous snapshots. Is there an easy way to bring the snapshots along as well? My thought currently is to revert the image to each snapshot desired to be kept, and protection domain snapshot it and then restore as a separate VM in the unlikely event we need to use it. Was hoping there would be a cleaner way to move the VM along with all of its snaps.

Here’s a demo of Nutanix Files VDI Sync for your EUC profiles and user data.

https://www.reddit.com/r/nutanix/comments/1kzqgr4/netapp_as_external_storage/ Anyone?

Has anyone tried to run a Nutanix Vm and load the IGEL software? I am trying to setup a lab device to test with and Nutanix runs our Lab. When I mount the ISO I get to the Standard Installation + Recovery screen and choose that, it then boots to this screen and I cannot see anything. Is it possible to do this?

.NEXT on demand sessions - https://www.nutanix.com/next/on-demand

Big release of the Nutanix Packer Builder today - lots of goodies for EUC workloads https://jkindon.com/deploying-euc-images-with-packer-and-nutanix/

Attempting to create a Windows 11 VM on my new Nutanix CE lab that I recently stood up, which runs on generic NUCs with Intel CPUs. I ran into the e1000 nic issue, so used acli to add an Intel NIC and also the vTPM, and checked machine type is set to Q35. If I boot the machine in UEFI mode, and untick Secure Boot the VM will boot and starts setup, but states system requirements aren't met (which you'd expect). If I tick the Secure Boot setting, the VM boots but hangs at the "Press F2 for EFI" screen. I haven't found any workarounds to this - has anyone run into this and know a resolution?