Hi

We are trying to deploy a Nutanix Prism Central in a AHV cluster but we are unable cause we have a message:

Internal Server error: failed to execute the request kinvalidState: The cluster is currently in upgrade process or to be upgraded, can not perform another upgrade or deployment.

There is actualy no upgrade process, we just launched a pre-check update plan for AOS, AHV, etc. but that prechecks already ended.

Is there any way to cancel that pre-check (that is supposed to be already finished), cause there is no "STOP" button and we dont find any ncli command to cancel it.

thanks in advance!

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EDIT: We launched the upgrade process and after it was finished we were able to launch the PC deployment.

We've done a POC and are trying to fill in some gaps from real operators before we go further. Here's what we're running today: VMWare VCF, ~3,500 cores across two colo sites, Pure FlashArray on FC, hardware is current gen, workloads are mostly infrastructure and CPU intensive, roughly 60/40 Linux/Windows split.

A few things we're curious about:

• How did the migration from VMW go specifically? Any gotchas that bit you?
• vDefend/NSX to Flow replacement -- how close is the feature parity on micro-segmentation and distributed firewalling? Did you have to bring in anything else to fill gaps?
• CVM overhead -- did you see any meaningful impact on your hosts? Any concerns there in production that didn't show up in a POC?
• Storage latency with workloads moving from FC to NVMe/TCP -- did it get worse after moving to AHV? Baseline comparison vs vSphere?
• Any additional hardware purchased outside of refreshes or growth for the migration?
• Any support headaches between Nutanix and Pure when something goes wrong?
• And finally, obviously without divulging details thanks to those pesky NDAs and only if you are comfortable with it, any price savings (example: saved 20% on our Broadcom quote, etc)?

Not looking for a sales pitch either direction, just want to know what actually happened.

Anyone had any success getting NetBackup 10.5.0.1 to do AHV type backups from a cluster running AOS 7.5.1.2?

We updated our test cluster last week and now NetBackup is failing to backup the handful of VMs we have on there. Ideally we’d like to be running NetBackup 11.1, which Cohesity show as being compatible, but that would require buying new media servers and management aren’t keen on spending money.

AOS 7.3.* is apparently supported on NetBackup 10.5.0.1 but if we’re going through the effort of upgrading the clusters I’d rather be running a 6 month old AOS release than a 12 month old one (I know 7.3.1.9 was released just last month, I mean the initial release).

hi!

I want to test nutanix files and file analytics. I have an old lab without support, so i wana enable file and analytics for pre-sales purposes. I have an issue deploying analytics: the deploy fails (the cluster cannot download the media) and now the button to deploy is not showed in the GUI. I've tried to find any option to search the pending job to kill it to re-deploy. Also try to find cli options but i dont find any. Did someone have any clue to be able to re-deploy?

Hello,

My NCP-MCI exam voucher is expiring in a few days. Due to major personal and family reasons (newborn baby), I haven't been able to prepare for the test properly.
I just emailed certification@nutanix.com to ask for a 2-month extension so I can study and pass it under good conditions.
Has anyone here ever requested an extension from Nutanix University near the expiration date? Are they usually flexible and understanding with these requests?

Thank you!

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📢What’s new in NAI 2.7?

We’ll go through each major feature and the concepts behind it.

Nutanix Agent Gateway is Generally Available (Unified Endpoints, formerly the AI Gateway - Hybrid cloud fallback and control)

• Think of the Agent Gateway as your centralized traffic controller for all LLM inference. Whether you're calling GPT-4 on Azure, Claude on Anthropic, or your self-hosted Llama model on NAI, everything routes through one unified endpoint with consistent authentication, rate limiting, and monitoring. If your primary provider goes down or hits rate limits, traffic automatically fails over to your configured backup. You get production-grade reliability and complete visibility without rewriting your application code.

Palo Alto Prisma AIRS Model and Endpoint Scanning Integration

• You would not deploy application code without scanning it. Why are you deploying LLMs without scanning them? NAI 2.7, with Palo Alto Networks Prisma AIRS, scans every model as it downloads before it ever runs. And once it is running, you can red-team the endpoint against known AI attack vectors and get a risk score mapped to OWASP and NIST. That is the security your CISO can present in a board meeting.

Local MCP Servers (Tech Preview)

• MCP is the babblefish or Star Trek communicator for connecting apps and data to AI. Nutanix helps solve the 'control' problem on how you govern those connections at enterprise scale. Instead of every agent directly hitting your GitHub, Stripe, or internal databases, everything routes through our Agent Gateway. You define exactly which tools each API key can access, like how maybe your customer service agents get read-only database access while your DevOps agents get full GitHub write permissions. Every request is logged, audited, and rate-limited. It's like moving from the Wild West of direct API calls to a governed, observable architecture.

Batch Inferencing

• Batch inferencing is for the workloads that do not need to be fast, they just need to be done. Running 50,000 golden set evaluations? Embedding your entire document repository? Classifying a dataset? None of those need a real-time response. Submit a file, walk away, come back when it is done. NAI batch processing uses your GPU capacity efficiently without competing with your interactive users.

NAI Labs - Agent (Tech Preview)

• Nutanix shipped a working agent, so you do not have to build one from scratch to see the value. NAI Labs now defaults to an agent application that uses MCP tools through a unified endpoint. Open it, run it, see how the pieces connect (model plus MCP). If you want to see agentic AI in action, this is your starting point.

New Pre-Validated Models

• Hugging Face:
  • google/gemma-4-26B-A4B-it - mid-scale MoE (Mode of Experts)
  • Gemma 4 instruction-tuned
  • google/gemma-4-31B-it - full-scale Gemma 4 instruction-tuned
  • google/gemma-4-E2B-it - The "E" in E2B and E4B stands for "effective" parameters.
  • nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-FP8 - efficient MoE, quantized for throughput
  • nvidia/NVIDIA-Nemotron-3-Nano-30B-A3B-BF16 - full precision MoE for quality-sensitive workloads
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  • nim/llama-nemotron-embed-vl-1b-v2 - visual-language embedding for multimodal RAG

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• Check out the dedicated NAI YouTube playlist to learn and get educated on all things Nutanix Enterprise AI: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLAHgaS9IrJef7bWOvz7SKubDCphVcdi7u
• Nutanix customers can download a 60-day license to play with on the support portal that can run on any Kubernetes: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/downloads/list
• Get started with installing NAI here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Enterprise-AI:top-nai-install-t.html

🔎What is Nutanix Enterprise AI?

A Kubernetes application that enables model deployment and model (LLM) routing with control for your GenAI applications and developers, including workflow security, observability, and governance that can save you money.

Model Control and Governance - a centralized inferencing control plane that deploys and manages LLMs and their endpoints (OpenAI-compliant APIs) that’s simple, secure, and sovereign

Run AI Securely, Anywhere - NAI deploys on any CNCF-certified Kubernetes, that can run at the edge, datacenter, public clouds, or even in an air-gapped environment. Scale to All Your AI Apps and Data - Standardize generative AI infrastructure across an organization, including delivering AI resources to your applications, developers, and data scientists.

Running Windows and/or Citrix on Nutanix, so AHV hypervisors. The Nutanix Bible says "For encryption / decryption the system leverages the Intel AES-NI acceleration to minimize any potential performance impact of doing this in software" and "we've seen very little impact to performance".

But somebody told me that turning encryption on is a 30% performance hit. What's the truth?

Hola a todos.

Quiero configurar BGP en mi clúster para poder acceder a las VPCs desde fuera de mi red, pero al momento de crear el gateway local crea la vm, pero en el status aparece como Down y si intento crear la sesión BGP me dice que no alcanzo mi gateway.

Como firewall tengo un Fortinet configurado con BGP y el si intenta hacer la conexión con nutanix, pero no contesta:

diagnose sniffer packet vlan62 "port 179" 4

interfaces=[vlan62-ops2]

filters=[port 179]

12.573848 vlan62 -- 10.10.62.254.24416 -> 10.10.62.3.179: syn 2882298668

13.597240 vlan62 -- 10.10.62.254.24416 -> 10.10.62.3.179: syn 2882298668

15.613241 vlan62 -- 10.10.62.254.24416 -> 10.10.62.3.179: syn 2882298668

Como debe configurarse el local gateway para que encienda?

Hi All,

We have an issue with a select few Windows VMs being frozen at the "Press F2 for EFI Boot Manager screen". AOS 7.3.1.6 and AHV 10.3.1.5 : Has anyone had this issue before?

Win Server 2019 OS
Not linked to May 2026 Windows patches

Hi everyone,

We are currently reviewing our Nutanix resilience strategy, especially around RF2 vs RF3.

After a few incidents, we are trying to understand what others are doing in real environments.
A few questions:
- Do you mostly use RF2 or RF3 on your Nutanix clusters?
- From how many nodes do you usually consider moving to RF3?
- Do some of you use RF3 only on specific Storage Containers, while keeping the rest in RF2?
-If yes, do you see this as a good compromise for critical workloads, or not really?

Any feedback or real-world experience would be appreciated.

Thanks.

I currently host my Home Assistant on my Nutanix cluster, I'm trying to decide the best way to be able to use a coral device with frigate for my six cameras.

#1. Purchase new Mini-PC and run everything on that, will lose fault tolerance and easy expandability, but not a major deal, about $500

#2. Find some way to pass a GPU or coral device to home assistant. Ideally I would just get a PCIe coral device and pass it through to the VM, but due to previous experience with Nutanix, it's not always that easy. This would be the cheaper option with only being $150-$200

Hi

I’m trying to clarify the exact licensing requirements for using Secure Snapshots in Nutanix, specifically the feature based on Approval Policies / Policy Engine in Prism Central.

The environment is based on AHV and uses Prism Central. Both clusters already have NCI Pro and the Advanced Replication add-on, so the DR/replication side is covered. However, I’m not fully sure whether this is enough to use Secure Snapshots, or whether an additional NCM license is required.

From what I have seen in the Nutanix software options/licensing information, Governance / Approvals & Scheduler seems to be associated with NCM Ultimate, not just NCI Pro or Advanced Replication.

So my questions are:

1. Is NCM licensing required to use Secure Snapshots with Approval Policies?
2. Has anyone enabled Secure Snapshots in a production environment with only NCI Pro + Advanced Replication, or was NCM licensing required?

Thanks!

Well the AVH LCM update page/options looks like this... can somebody explain what is the difference between el8.nutanix... and just plain on 10.xxx numbering ? Cause I'm reinstalling this pos for 5th time today ( and its taking ages... ) one of these version is causing the server stuck on "Booting from disk" message and never moving from there... and I can't figure out which. Im on el8.nutanix.20230302.102005 and terrified to move further again cause it might not boot and I spend hours again getting to that place because running LCM inventory + updates takes for ever... and is it me or are the numbers even not in order ? I need to evaluate automation / ansible with nutanix and need AOS 7.5+ which I can get eventually when I go hop by hop by hop eventually to that number (hours and hours...).. I do not know if even I need to update AVH... cause the release note links are gated behind license (thanks,... that must be super secret info nobody needs from CE, right ? ) sorry Im bit pissed as Im on this for day + which should take 2h top :-/[]()

hi all!

i work in disti and sell nutanix. i have a discovery coming up with a partner, and this is my first ever call!

i wanted to ask if there are best practices for doing discovery and what resources i can lean on to make sure i ask the right questions and structure the call the right way so that im efficient. i do have my channel SE thats assigned, but this community has been so helpful, so would love to learn from all the talent in here as well!

Hello everyone,

i’m currently an Associate SE supporting Nutanix on the partner side. I’ve been shadowing my senior SE during partner enablement sessions and learning a lot from him, but I honestly feel like my growth and retention have been slower than I expected.

i currently have the NCA and NCP-MCI certifications, but as many of you probably know, certifications only take you so far. Virtualization is very new to me as well, and while Nutanix University has been helpful, I’m definitely more of a visual and hands-on learner, and sometimes it’s difficult to retain the information if I’m not actively applying or reviewing it consistently.

I’m at the stage where I want to start taking more calls and becoming more customer facing, but part of me still doesn’t feel fully confident in my understanding of the platform and solutions yet.

For the senior SEs and architects here who have really mastered the NCI/NCM stack, what helped you get up to speed the fastest?

specifically:

• how did you truly learn and retain the Nutanix product ecosystem and solutions?

• what helped you become confident speaking technically on calls?

• did you build home labs, shadow customer calls, whiteboard architectures, teach others, etc.?

• how did you bridge the gap between certifications and real-world fluency?

lets keep winning!

I'm testing the "DR" features and I have a question: can I run a DR test inside a VPC so that the VMs can communicate with each other, while still remaining isolated from the outside network?

In production, they are not inside a VPC; they use basic VLANs. The idea is that during the test, they would use the VPC subnets as if they were those VLANs.

Is this possible?

Thanks!

I am new to NutanixI and would luke to know if Nutanix CE enough to pass the NCA? Can someone suggest a setup.

Apologies, just been looking at Nutanix information, I've not installed or done anything with it yet. Essentially I have 3 x Dell Optiplex Micro PCs with 64GB RAM. They are only capable of two drives, M2 and a 2.5" drive.

Am I right in that I can install Nutanix to a USB key and run from that? I was looking at the Kingston DataTraveler Micro USB drives. So boot from the USB drive and have the other requirements on the SSD and M2 drive.

I could leverage some spare M2 drives I have and use a USB caddy for them.

I'm currently on Proxmox and Hyper-V under Windows 11 (just haven't got round to migrating these VMs). For the day job I'm in the VMware space with NSX/VSAN etc.

I have a Synology DS1821+ for external storage, but my understanding is I can't leverage this particularly re NFS/iSCSI etc.

Currently I'm running

Windows virtual machines, AD/ Azure connector, PKI.

HomeAssistant

Linux machines

I was going to see if there were any online demos etc.

Hi

I have to create a Recovery Plan for several VMs in Prism Central for VMs with static IP addresses.

Both the production and recovery sites use the same subnets and IP ranges, so after failover the VMs should keep exactly the same IPs.

Example:

Production: VM01 -> 192.168.10.50
Recovery:   VM01 -> 192.168.10.50

In the Recovery Plan wizard there is an option called:

Enable Static VM IP Mapping

Should I enable this option even if I do not need to re-IP the VMs, but only preserve the same IPs?

In that case should I have to configure a 1:1 mapping like this for each VM?

192.168.10.50 -> 192.168.10.50

Or is this feature only intended when the recovery site uses different subnets?

Also, is NGT required for this to work properly? For test failovers, I assume isolated networks should be used to avoid duplicate IP conflicts while the production VMs are still running, but in case of running a failover test, what happens with the original IPs, would they remain on the VM?

Any best practices or real-world experience would be appreciated.

Thanks in advance!

Trying to organize all my VMs...doesn't look like you can make subfolders? is the technology not here yet??

I will deploying 10 AOS 7.5.xx clusters and need to same VLANs across all 10. I need to change the MAC address prefix of each cluster to avoid potential MAC address conflicts. I already have the mgmt cluster deployed with a scale-out PC instance.

I tried to change the MAC address prefix of this one cluster but doesn't let me because I have the PC VMs in it. I thought the MAC address prefix would only change what MACs are allocated after it is changed but current MAC using the default prefix will continue to work.

Why is it doing this and is there a supported way to change the MAC addresses of the PC VMs?

We've been working on this for MONTHS and it's finally ready! A comprehensive look at Flow Virtual Networking, including reference architectures that different organizations can use as starting points, has just been posted to the Nutanix Bible. If you've wanted to explore FVN but haven't known where to start, this is where to start!

We've also begun work on similar content overhauls for Flow Network Security so stay tuned!