Hi.
We have a large grouping of VM's that are not always required to be running and would like to find a way to shutdown these particular VM's on a sunday night.
Now anyone know how to find a group of VM's (either via label, project, category etc) and pass a shutdown command. Ideally I would like to do this via PowerShell but I will take anything.
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Shutdown Grouping of VM's
+1Best answer by devwangler
How I solved this:
Created a category in Prism, assigned all the VM's that I want to shutdown to the category.
Then I wrote the script below which queries the category via REST API into a hash table. Then using the Nutanix PS cmdlets, I iterate the hash table and power down the VM's.
It now runs via a scheduled task once a week, powering down all non-essential VM's.
https://github.com/leepryor/Nutanix_Powershell/blob/master/Shutdown-Categorized-VMs.ps1
View originalCreated a category in Prism, assigned all the VM's that I want to shutdown to the category.
Then I wrote the script below which queries the category via REST API into a hash table. Then using the Nutanix PS cmdlets, I iterate the hash table and power down the VM's.
It now runs via a scheduled task once a week, powering down all non-essential VM's.
https://github.com/leepryor/Nutanix_Powershell/blob/master/Shutdown-Categorized-VMs.ps1
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There are a number of ways of listing the VMs and then filtering for the 'group' you want but this will be dependent on your naming convention.
To shutdown a VM you have multiple options as well:
Windows:
DOS Cmd:
PowerShell:
Linux:
So all you would have to do was loop thru the above with the filtered computer list.
To shutdown a VM you have multiple options as well:
Windows:
DOS Cmd:
code:
Shutdown / /m \\{computer} {options}
PowerShell:
code:
Stop-Computer –computer {ComputerName} –Credential {AccountID}
Linux:
code:
ssh -t {user}@{ComputerIP} 'sudo shutdown -h now'
So all you would have to do was loop thru the above with the filtered computer list.
+1Thanks Roberteo.
I'm looking for something in AHV. That way the grouping can be dynamic and we don't have to maintain a listing of VM's that I would have to iterate through.
I have found that in Prism we can group machines with Categories. We can interrogate the categories via REST API and then shut them down... I just now need to learn about REST API's and how to interrogate them 🙂
I'm looking for something in AHV. That way the grouping can be dynamic and we don't have to maintain a listing of VM's that I would have to iterate through.
I have found that in Prism we can group machines with Categories. We can interrogate the categories via REST API and then shut them down... I just now need to learn about REST API's and how to interrogate them 🙂
Could you use the REST API
to get the raw list of VMs and then pipe the results thru a filtered grep then pipe the results of that to the LINUX command above?
Let us know how you make out.
code:
Get vms
to get the raw list of VMs and then pipe the results thru a filtered grep then pipe the results of that to the LINUX command above?
Let us know how you make out.
Also check out this from Steve (aka The Dude):
I know it relates to restoring the VMs in a PD but the code has some omph.
code:
http://stevenpoitras.com/
I know it relates to restoring the VMs in a PD but the code has some omph.
+1How I solved this:
Created a category in Prism, assigned all the VM's that I want to shutdown to the category.
Then I wrote the script below which queries the category via REST API into a hash table. Then using the Nutanix PS cmdlets, I iterate the hash table and power down the VM's.
It now runs via a scheduled task once a week, powering down all non-essential VM's.
https://github.com/leepryor/Nutanix_Powershell/blob/master/Shutdown-Categorized-VMs.ps1
Created a category in Prism, assigned all the VM's that I want to shutdown to the category.
Then I wrote the script below which queries the category via REST API into a hash table. Then using the Nutanix PS cmdlets, I iterate the hash table and power down the VM's.
It now runs via a scheduled task once a week, powering down all non-essential VM's.
https://github.com/leepryor/Nutanix_Powershell/blob/master/Shutdown-Categorized-VMs.ps1
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