Helpful Nutanix Commands Cheat Sheet.note

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Helpful Nutanix Commands Cheat Sheet

ON JANUARY 23, 2017

I’m pretty sure anyone who is either a Nutanix employee or a customer that uses the product on a

daily basis has a list somewhere of the commands they use. I decided to create a blog post to

become a living document with the most used commands. It should get expanded and be kept up to

date over time.

AHV

configure mgt IP address / network

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-br0

VLAN tag mgt network

ovs-vsctl set port br0 tag=####

Show OVS configuration

ovs-vsctl show

Show configuration of bond0

ovs-appctl bond/show bond0

Show br0 configuration (for example to confirm VLAN tag)

ovs-vsctl list port br0

List VMs on host / find CVM

virsh list –all | grep CVM

Power On powered off CVM

virsh start [name of CVM from above command]

Increase RAM configuration of CVM

virsh setmaxmem [name of CVM from above command] –config –size ram_gbGiB

virsh setmem [name of CVM from above command] –config –size ram_gbGiB

ESXi

Show vSwitch configurations

esxcfg-vswitch -l

Show physical nic list

esxcfg-nics -l

Show vmkernel interfaces configured

esxcfg-vmknic -l

Remove vmnic from vSwitch0

esxcfg-vswitch -U vmnic# vSwitch0

Add vmnic to vSwitch0

UNCATEGORIZED

BY BRANDON RICE 0 COMMENTS

esxcfg-vswitch -L vmnic# vSwitch0

Set VLAN for default VM portgroup

esxcfg-vswitch -v [vlan####] -p “VM Network” vSwitch0

Set VLAN for default management portgroup

esxcfg-vswitch -v [vlan id####] -p “Management Network” vSwitch0

Set IP address for default management interface (vmk0)

esxcli network ip interface ipv4 set -i vmk0 -I [ip address] -N [netmask] -t static

Set default gateway

esxcfg-route [gateway ip]

List VMs on host/find CVM

vim-cmd vmsvc/getallvms | grep -i cvm

Power on powered off CVM

vim-cmd vmsvc/power.on [vm id# from above command]

CVM

VLAN tag CVM (only for AHV or ESXi using VGT)

change_cvm_vlan ####

Show AHV host physical uplink configuration

manage_ovs show_uplinks

Remove 1gb pNICs from bond0 on AHV host

manage_ovs –bridge_name br0 –bond_name bond0 –interfaces 10g update_uplinks

Configure mgt IP address / network

vi /etc/sysconfig/network-scripts/ifcfg-eth0

Create cluster

cluster -s [cvmip1,cvmip2,cvmipN…] create

Get cluster status

cluster status

Get detailed local to current CVM services’ status

genesis status

Restart specific service across entire cluster (example below: cluster_health)

allssh genesis stop cluster_health; cluster start

Show Prism leader

curl localhost:2019/prism/leader

Stop cluster

cluster stop

Start a stopped cluster

cluster start

Destroy cluster

cluster destroy

Discover nodes

discover_nodes

Gracefully shutdown CVM

cvm_shutdown -P now

Upgrade non-cluster joined node from cluster CVM without expanding the cluster

cluster -u [remote node cvmip] upgrade_node

Check running AOS upgrade status for cluster

upgrade_status

Check running hypervisor upgrade status for cluster

host_upgrade_status

Get CVM AOS version

cat /etc/nutanix/release_version

Get cluster AOS version

ncli cluster version

Create Prism Central instance (should be ran on deployed PC vm, not cluster CVM)

cluster –cluster_function_list multicluster -s [pcipaddress] create

Run all NCC health checks

ncc health_checks run_all

Export all logs (optionally scrubbed for IP info)

ncc log_collector –anonymize_output=true run_all

ipmitool (NX platform)

(hypervisor agnostic), leading / required for

ESXi (/ipmitool)

Configure IPMI to use static ip

ipmitool lan set 1 ipsrc static

Configure IPMI IP address

ipmitool lan set 1 ipaddr [ip address]

Configure IPMI network mask

ipmitool lan set 1 netmask [netmask]

Configure IPMI default gateway

ipmitool lan set 1 defgw ipaddr [gateway ip]

Configure IPMI VLAN tag

ipmitool lan set 1 vlan id [####]

Remove IPMI VLAN tag

ipmitool lan set 1 vlan id off

Show current IPMI configuration

ipmitool lan print 1

Show IPMI mode (failover/dedicated)

ipmitool raw 0x30 0x70 0x0c 0

The result will be one of the following

Get IPMI user list

ipmitool user list

Reset IPMI ADMIN user password back to factory (trailing ADMIN is the password)

ipmitool user set password [# of ADMIN user from command above] ADMIN

Reboot the BMC (reboot the IPMI only)

ipmitool mc reset cold

URLs

CVM built-in foundation

http://[cvmip]:8000/gui

Legacy cluster-init (should attempt redirect to foundation on newer AOS)

http://[cvmip]:2100/cluster_init.html

Get cluster status

http://[cvmip]:2100/cluster_status.html

00 = Dedicated

01 = Onboard / Shared

02 = Failover (default mode)

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