Another release of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. Two new columns are included in this version: VM Description vNUMA Configuration The VM Description information is available via Prism Element (Nutanix Cluster) but the vNUMA Configuration information is only available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if you want …
Tag Archive: AOS 5.5
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.1
A new release, version 2.1, of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. I have been asked a few times about how to add information about when a VM was created and it is included in this version. However, the information is available via Prism Central (PC) so you need to decide if …
Quick Tip – Adjust/Change Prism UI Contrast
A while back I wrote a blog post about how to Change Nutanix Prism UI Login Screen and this quick tip will be about hos to adjust/change the Prism UI Contrast. This applies to both Prism Element (PE) and Prism Central (PC). Follow the procedure below to manage the Prism UI contrast. Log in to PE …
List Nutanix AHV Physical Memory Configuration
A question I have received quite a few times when Nutanix customers wants to add memory to their AHV hosts is how they can see the following: DIMM Size in use DIMM Locator in use DIMMs Bank Locator in use You can get some of this information from the out of band management interface (IPMI, …
Nutanix AHV & Promiscuous Mode
A question I have received a few times is if AHV supports promiscuous mode or not. The easy answer is YES it does. However there is a huge difference in how promiscuous mode works for AHV compared to another well known hypervisor VMware ESXi. AHV uses Open vSwitch for network communication in most cases, there …
Nutanix AHV VM Reporting Via REST API Version 2.0
So this will be the third release, version 2.0, of the AHV VM Reporting script using Nutanix REST API. You might be aware of that Nutanix moved Self Service Portal functionality from Prism Element (management of single Nutanix cluster) to Prism Central which can manage many Nutanix clusters (PEs) in AOS version 5.5. What you …
Migrate Nutanix Self Service Portal To Version 5.5
This could be the easiest application migration you have ever completed Nutanix released Acropolis Operating System (AOS) version 5.5 a few days ago which I blogged about here. One major shift is that Nutanix Self Service Portal (SSP) has been moved from Prism Element, admin interface per Nutanix cluster, to Prism Central (PC), multi cluster …