Top 10 (and a bit) Nutanix Command

We’ve recently had a new graduate join our IT Operations department and I was going through one of our regions Nutanix installations and I was asked what are the top 10 commands they should know.  That got me thinking, so I put them wrote them down (there are more then 10) and shared them with our new grad and though I would post them here for you all also…….

ncli - Nutanix Command Line Interface for cluster-wide settings.

acli - Acropolis Command Line Interface for VM management (AHV).

ncc - Nutanix Cluster Check for health monitoring.

 

hosted – output the Nutanix hosts ID

hostips – output the host IP addresses in the cluster

host_upgrade_status – output the host upgrade status during any host hypervisor upgrade activity

nodetool -h 0 ring – output the clusters ring status and how many nodes are pin the Nutanix cluster ring

nodetool – h 0 info – output the node & host details e.g. uptime

nodetool -h 0 leadership – output the master node in the cluster

cvm_shutdown -P now – powers down the cvm your ssh’ed into

lcm_leader – output which CVM is the LCM leader

genesis restart – restart prism on a cvm

genesis status – check prism status

 

acli host.list – list all AHV nodes in the cluster

ncli cluster status – checks the cluster status

cluster status | Grep -v UP – validate if CVM processes are in the UP state

acli vm.list – list all VM’s on the cluster

acli vm.on (vm-name) – turns on a VM

acli vm.on * - turn on all VM’s in the cluster

acli vm.get (vm -name) gets information on the VM

acli vm.snapshot_list – lists all VM’s with a snapshot

 

ncli host edit id=HOST_ID enable-maintenance-mode=true – put a CVM into maintenance mode

ncli host edit id=HOST_ID enable-maintenance-mode=false – take a CVM out of maintenance mode

acli host.enter_maintenance_mode HOST_IP – put a AHV host into maintenance mode

acli host.exit_maintenance_mode HOST_IP – take a host of maintenance mode