Nutanix 4.0 PowerShell has Full Feature Coverage

One of the big new things for workflows and automation in Nutanix NOS 4.0 are the PowerShell cmdlets to interact with the Nutanix API's. The POSH library covers the entire extent and functionality of the Nutanix GUI. Basically, anything that can be done via GUI can also be done via REST and can also be done via POSH; including Alerts, Authentication, Backup and Disaster Recovery, Clusters, Containers, Disks, VM and Host, Remote Sites, Multi-Cluster, Storage Pools, SNMP etc.

Nutanix requires Powershell 2.0+ and .NET 4.0 installed on the computer running the commands. The command may be manually executed or via Powershell scripts and pipelining is also supported.

This article is just an introduction to Nutanix Powershell. In future articles I will select and explain specific cmdlets. In the meantime, to get help descriptions just use: Get-Help

The example below demonstrates how to establish a connection to a Nutanix cluster.

The example below will list all Nutanix containers.

Below you will find the full list with all cmdlets supported with Nutanix. To generate this list just use the following command: get-module | ForEach-Object {Get-Command -Module $_} | ForEach-Object {$_.Name}

Important: Please note these cmdlts are from the Beta version and they may change for the GA release. Some of these changes will include namespace changes to include {NTNX} in every cmdlet.

This article was first published by Andre Leibovici (@andreleibovici) at myvirtualcloud.net