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vSphere Administration

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VM Management

Core VM management operations can be done directly from Prism without using any hypervisor management interface. Once your Nutanix nodes are added to your vCenter instance and your vCenter Server is registered with your Nutanix cluster (Settings > vCenter Registration), you can perform the following operations directly through Prism:

Command Reference

ESXi cluster upgrade

Description: Perform an automated upgrade of ESXi hosts using the CLI and custom offline bundle

cluster --md5sum=bundle_checksum --bundle=/path/to/offline_bundle host_upgrade
Example 
cluster --md5sum=bff0b5558ad226ad395f6a4dc2b28597 --bundle=/tmp/VMware-ESXi-5.5.0-1331820-depot.zip host_upgrade
Restart ESXi host services

Description: Restart each ESXi hosts services in a incremental manner

for i in `hostips`;do ssh root@$i "services.sh restart";done
Display ESXi host nics in ‘Up’ state

Description: Display the ESXi host’s nics which are in a ‘Up’ state

for i in `hostips`;do echo $i && ssh root@$i esxcfg-nics -l | grep Up;done
Display ESXi host 10GbE nics and status

Description: Display the ESXi host’s 10GbE nics and status

for i in `hostips`;do echo $i && ssh root@$i esxcfg-nics -l | grep ixgbe;done
Display ESXi host active adapters

Description: Display the ESXi host’s active, standby and unused adapters

for i in `hostips`;do echo $i &&  ssh root@$i "esxcli network vswitch standard policy failover get --vswitch-name vSwitch0";done
Display ESXi host routing tables

Description: Display the ESXi host’s routing tables

for i in `hostips`;do ssh root@$i 'esxcfg-route -l';done
Check if VAAI is enabled on datastore

Description: Check whether or not VAAI is enabled/supported for a datastore

vmkfstools -Ph /vmfs/volumes/Datastore Name
Set VIB acceptance level to community supported

Description: Set the vib acceptance level to CommunitySupported allowing for 3rd party vibs to be installed

esxcli software acceptance set --level CommunitySupported
Install VIB

Description: Install a vib without checking the signature

esxcli software vib install --viburl=/VIB directory/VIB name --no-sig-check

OR

esxcli software vib install --depoturl=/VIB directory/VIB name --no-sig-check
Check ESXi ramdisk space

Description: Check free space of ESXi ramdisk

for i in `hostips`;do echo $i; ssh root@$i 'vdf -h';done
Clear pynfs logs

Description: Clears the pynfs logs on each ESXi host

for i in `hostips`;do echo $i; ssh root@$i '> /pynfs/pynfs.log';done
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