Category: CVM
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Clone disk between VMs on Nutanix cluster
How to move the disks from one VM to another VM In some scenarios, you may want to move the disks from one VM to another VM. In such cases, you may add VM disk to the Image service as described in the How to make Image from VM disk section or you can also…
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Changing the Storage Container VM
When creating a virtual machine in the wrong storage container, with this command you can place your virtual machine in the correct storage container. Syntax Command: acli vm.update_container [VM NAME] container=[destination container] wait=false Command examples: acli vm.update_container nxctic002 container=SelfServiceContainer wait=false acli vm.update_container exchange03 container=CONT_RF2_GEN_WORKLOADS wait=false
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How to list SSD and HDD capacity and usage of Nutanix cluster
With this command, we can immediately list the total storage capacity of Nutanix separated by SSD and HDD (or other) tier. ncli storagetier ls
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Do you know what command was given last night? Command History
ACLI is a command line utility that is used to create/modify/manage VMs on AHV. NCLI is a command-line utility that can manage almost all cluster operations. This article describes how to access the ACLI and NCLI command history. ACLI HISTORY COMMANDS The ACLI command history is stored in the file /home/nutanix/.acli_history. Notes: This file is available only on CVMs hosted on…
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All Flash Virtual Machines, where do they live?
We must be cautious when using Flash Mode in virtual machines, the total storage space of the Virtual Machine cannot exceed 25% of the total SSD storage in the Cluster, remembering that the Nutanix algorithm already automatically balances hot data on the SSD and cold data on the HDD, in clusters with these two types…
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Nutanix CVM: What time is it? Ask to NTP Server
If the health check doesn’t pass, the cluster operation may be at risk of various symptoms or impacts. Some examples:
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Follow the Leader – Nutanix Cluster Services
It happened to me when I was looking for a solution to the problem when we were using the LCM (update service). When you request the inventory procedure and use a CVM (the LCM service leader) that has issues that need to be fixed, the leader of this service, LCM, will report a failed status.…