Importing the OVA for the NAbox Appliance into Nutanix. | NetApp | Page 1

smoky merlin Aug 8, 2024, 10:58 PM

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I am trying to use the NAbox OVA image and import it to run the NAbox in a Nutanix environment. Nutanix has a document to do that and after I followed it, the VM cannot boot all the way.

Attached is a screenshot of the end of the boot process.

Is anybody done this conversion? Thanks!

tawdry sun Aug 9, 2024, 9:31 AM

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I have not done this with Nutanix yet, but will do some work this weekend to see what I can. If anyone else has an idea beforehand please chime in. I've only done alternate deployments to Azure

violet mulch Aug 9, 2024, 9:45 AM

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@unkempt tulip

unkempt tulip Aug 9, 2024, 9:50 AM

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Interesting. Any way that you can record a video of the whole boot ?

unkempt tulip Aug 9, 2024, 12:26 PM

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Ok nevermind, it won't work, flatcar customization validates that's the VM is a VMware VM. Let me think about it

tawdry sun Aug 9, 2024, 1:53 PM

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not sure if Nutanix allows you to import disks the same way Azure does or if that is feasible.
I plan on doing some work with it this weekend and I'll report back on anything I find.

smoky merlin Aug 9, 2024, 6:09 PM

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I screenshot the entire journalctl. Is it OK to paste them here, or upload a file with them somewhere

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Ty, I got the method of importing the disks. I think the settings of the VM is the issue. In the Nutanix doc, they are saying to get the settings from the OVF file and create the VM matching them. From the NAbox ovf I got 4GB of RAM and 2 vCPUs and 1 socket and this is only settings I can supply for the VM creation in Nutanix. However in the NAbox OVF there are more NAbox-oriented settings I am not sure how would be translated or are they important to start the VM.

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There are 21 screenshots.

unkempt tulip Aug 9, 2024, 9:18 PM

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You will notice an error from ignite config that it’s bailing when seeing the environment isn’t VMware. That’s probably the reason for failure. I spent some time with a buddy at nutanix earlier today, I don’t think there is an easy way.
But I do think alternative hosts for NAbox is important

I’ll see if I can change a few things and make a qcow2 image, that should solve it and bring more hypervisors to the table.

If it works, then it shouldn’t be too hard to apply the same to any of the available flatcar images (azure, AWS, etc)

smoky merlin Aug 9, 2024, 11:14 PM

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OK. Thank you. Please let me know how it went.

unkempt tulip Aug 12, 2024, 8:33 AM

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Here is the error you're getting not running on VMWare CPU

tawdry sun Aug 12, 2024, 1:19 PM

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aye. tried multiple things and couldn't get it to kick in.
maybe exporting the ova to raw disks/etc and then converting it to qcow or such but i didnt have time to get into that aspect

unkempt tulip Aug 12, 2024, 3:56 PM

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working on a qcow2 image currently

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one of the issue is the oem_id=vmware in grub.cfg. Then there is the data disk that typically isn't distributed with a cloud image, working around this

unkempt tulip Aug 12, 2024, 7:21 PM

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Can't do much testing yet but with luck, that should boot : https://upload.nabox.org/voca-kecu-kazo

Don't forget to attach an additional disk, it should get a DHCP IP

smoky merlin Aug 15, 2024, 8:53 PM

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the OVA has two disks. do I attach both of them?

tawdry sun Aug 15, 2024, 10:05 PM

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yes

smoky merlin Aug 15, 2024, 10:31 PM

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What I did is: created a Nutanix image disk out of the qcow2 file and added an additional 200GB disk to the VM. Haven't used any of the vmdk files from the OVA image. I am assuming that the qcow2 file is the same as the first vmdk file and then there is a second file to hold the data. In general is the second VMDK file empty in the OVA image?

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And I was able to boot the NAbox and logged in. I have to yet configure it with a static IP. Was that a correct approach of building the Nutanix VM out of the QCOW2 image?

unkempt tulip Aug 16, 2024, 9:32 AM

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yes pretty much.
Note that I'm still adjusting stuff in the qemu image, reusing the same share as you got the qcow2 from

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technically it's not the same qcow2 as the vmdk, the flatcar image is the qemu one

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well... it's ALIVE !

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https://nabox.org/downloads/
I decided to release both qcow2 and vhdx as experimental and get some feedback

tawdry sun Aug 16, 2024, 3:50 PM

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here are the notes i made for azure Yann, this was based on v3, i'm going to build out a v4 system this weekend and update anything that is necessary

📎 nabox_azure.txt

unkempt tulip Aug 16, 2024, 4:51 PM

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I just did a vhdx actually 😄

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and the serial console would be awesome indeed

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though I'll assume flatcar image for azure already has the serial set

smoky merlin Aug 16, 2024, 11:37 PM

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Thank you, Yann. I will download the new image and give it a go next week after Wednesday. I will post how it went.

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So does the new zip file have the second drive in it, or this is the drive with the image and I have to again add the second drive as before?

unkempt tulip Aug 17, 2024, 7:51 AM

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You will have to add the drive, it seems to be the standard procedure for that kind of deployments.

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Use the image from the NAbox downloads

smoky merlin Aug 23, 2024, 8:52 PM

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Yann, for some reason I can't change the IP to the static IP in the web configuration. Is the su admin with the default password or something else?

smoky merlin Aug 23, 2024, 10:51 PM

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actually, the network information I entered in the GUI created the 10-nabox-network file with the right format. However, the website is still available on the DHCP IP the VM got when it was created.

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I am not able to openup the GUI on the IP specified in the file below. The IPs are not real but this is how the network file format is:/etc/systemd/network
10-nabox.network
[Match]
Name=ens192

[Network]
LinkLocalAddressing=no
IPv6AcceptRA=no
Address=10.10.10.10/21
Gateway=10.10.10.1
Domains=domain1 domain2 domain3
DNS=192.62.2.1
DNS=192.62.1.1

unkempt tulip Aug 24, 2024, 7:45 AM

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Mmm, I don't think ens192 is correct. Is that the latest qcow2 ?

smoky merlin Aug 26, 2024, 5:34 PM

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I think so, from the download page on the nabox.org, nabox-4.0.5.qcow2

smoky merlin Aug 26, 2024, 11:54 PM

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Yes, I checked the hash as well.

unkempt tulip Aug 27, 2024, 6:23 AM

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I don't understant. ens192 is only ever mentioned in VMware builds

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Unless your ethernet interface actually is ens192 ?

smoky merlin Aug 27, 2024, 7:09 PM

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OK. eth0 is the network interface on the VM in Nutanix, which is a DHCP assigned IP. I used that IP to login to the GUI and then in the Network configuration of the web site I entered my static configuration, which shows up in the 10-nabox.network file and the interface is "ens192" and the static configuration I want. So, for some reason the configuration in 10-nabox.network file doesn't translate to the VM networking, eth0. I executed commands to change the eth0 with the static IP and was able to access the website using the static IP, but this is a temp solution. rebooting of the VM is going back to DHCP. How do I make this change permanently? What is the best approach of fixing it? Can I specify eth0 in the 10-nabox.network file? Thanks!

unkempt tulip Aug 27, 2024, 7:53 PM

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can you confirm the build number in About box ? And maybe collect a support bundle and upload it here ? https://upload.nabox.org/pire-viwe-tuku

smoky merlin Aug 27, 2024, 8:51 PM

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uploaded

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 5:58 AM

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I don't think it's complete. See, when you download the support bundle from NAbox, there is no progress bar as the content is streamed, I think you may not have waited for the download to finish

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 6:36 AM

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I'm redeploying a fresh image on nutanix, this is so weird

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 6:53 AM

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Indeed I'm able to reproduce

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 2:22 PM

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Not sure what happened. A new build seems to work fine now https://upload.nabox.org/pire-viwe-tuku

smoky merlin Aug 28, 2024, 4:34 PM

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again using qcow2 file? what is the *.nbx file?

tawdry sun Aug 28, 2024, 4:52 PM

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update file for nabox i believe

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 5:09 PM

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It is 🙂

smoky merlin Aug 28, 2024, 5:41 PM

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OK. thanks.

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 6:12 PM

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4.0.6b1 will be on the web site in a few minutes

smoky merlin Aug 28, 2024, 6:27 PM

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cool. I haven't done an update using the nbx file. How do you do it?

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 6:33 PM

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In Settings/Upgrade

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and then NAbox

smoky merlin Aug 28, 2024, 7:36 PM

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OK. don't see the 4.0.6b1 version, though.

unkempt tulip Aug 28, 2024, 8:30 PM

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Really ? https://nabox.org/downloads/ in the beta versions section

smoky merlin Aug 28, 2024, 8:32 PM

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didn't look in the beta versions.😞

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