Nutanix
You may run into a situation where a Prism Central task becomes hung and is not, or will not progress. Thankfully there's a simple fix for that using cli. 1. Connect to your Prism Central VM, and execute the following ecli task command: nutanix@PCVM:~$ ecli task.list
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Those using LCM may have noticed a new set of software being pushed via LCM as of late. The ability to update CMU came with LCM starting in version 2.3.4. The CMU is a set of tools and scripts that you can use to free up resources in
Nutanix
Nutanix Files can be configured for self-service restore. When a share is configured for SSR, the FSVM's will take internal snapshots of the shares. These snaps will consume storage, and may prevent free space from opening up when data has been removed from the share. To resolve this,
Nutanix
How to get the version of AHV via command line.
Azure
Our MDM manager came to me with an issue with Azure Endpoint Manager using Dynamic Membership Rules. The groups were not updating members automatically, as a result devices didn't receive the correct policies. The membership rule was simple. (device.enrollmentProfileName -equals "LKiosk") If the device was
Nutanix
Replacing nics on Nutanix AHV.
Okta
Okta IWA leverages the OktaService account in two places. First, the Okta AD Agent service needs to be updated via services.msc. Second, within the IIS Application pools, there is an application named OktaIWA. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- 1. Open Services.msc, update the Log On As account for the Okta AD Agent
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You may find yourself in a situation where you have been locked out of interactive login on the root account of your AHV node. The good news is, assuming you have access to your cvm, you should still be able to ssh into the node. Nutanix stores keys to allow
AHV
You may run across an issue when changing your AHV password to a previously set password. While it's not best practice, there may be a edge case where you need to reconfigure that same password. [admin@linux ~]$ passwd Changing password for user admin. Changing password for admin. (current)
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Occasionally it may be important to calculate the actual data savings occurring within your Nutanix cluster. Curator actually has a simple command to generate a storage reduction report. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- nutanix@cvm:~$ curator_cli display_data_reduction_report Using curator master: 10.26.2.34:2010 Using execution id 13218 of
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One of the first discoveries I made with AHV was the impersonation functionality. I came across this as we began deploying qcow images for Infoblox. Infoblox noted in their documentation that some acli commands were required to be applied to the vm's. So what does this even mean?
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This may be my favorite post yet. There will come a time when you need to shutdown your cvm and AHV node.