Nutanix Acropolis Hypervisor

Last Updated : Mar 25, 2025 |

For deployment into a Nutanix AHV environment, the following is supported:

Nutanix Feature

Avaya Aura® Media Server Support

AHV Versions

Version 6, starting with 6.5

Clone Virtual Machine

Not supported

Resize Virtual Machine

Not supported when the VM is powered on.

Acropolis Dynamic Scheduling (ADS)

Not supported. If ADS is enabled for the cluster, the AAMS VM should only be pinned to a single AHV host.

Hot Migration

Not supported.

To migrate to a different physical host, you must first shut down the VM to do a cold migration. For 1+1 HA Clusters, both VMs must be shut down.

Cold Migration

Supported

Snapshots

Not supported on production servers outside of maintenance windows.

Supported for temporary use when applying feature packs, service packs, or patches during maintenance windows.

The VM must be shut down before creating, deleting, or reverting a snapshot. For 1+1 HA clusters, both VMs must be shut down for any snapshot operation on either server.

Snapshots must be removed before returning the server to production.

Nutanix High Availability (HA)

Not supported.

Overcommitting of Resources

Not supported. Care must be taken to ensure that the total number of vCPUs allocated to VMs on a single host do not exceed the number of vCPUs available on the physical host.

Boot Configuration

Only UEFI is supported

Secure Boot

Supported starting with Avaya Aura® MS 10.2.0 SP1

Networking

Standard Nutanix networking is supported. The media server must have the equivalent bandwidth available as a pair of 1Gbps NICs.
The following requirements are also mandatory:
  • For KVM-based hypervisors like Nutanix AHV, logical cores on the host must not be oversubscribed with respect to vCPU count across all VMs that share the host with the media server. For example, the total number of vCPUs across all VMs on a VM host that has 24 logical cores (12 physical cores with hyper-threading enabled), must not exceed 24.
    Note:

    This recommendation prevents CPU oversubscription.

  • It is mandatory to ensure the VM host is not oversubscribed. For maximum system performance, ensure that:

    • Energy savings features are disabled.

    • Maximum performance settings are enabled in the server BIOS.