I’m running my Nutanix CE lab on dedicated hardware, but you can also install it virtual in VMware Workstation (for example). In this blog I will explain how to do this. Before we continue there are some requirements: Make clear if you want a 1 node or 3 node cluster; Read more…
Quick blog post. The PowerShell script is selfexplaining 😉 You can schedule this on a secure server to run periodically or run this manually when needed. There is a password in the script so use with caution.
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<# This script checks the Nutanix cluster for available snapshots (Protection Domain snapshots are not part of the check). The list of snapshots is checked against the $DeleteAfterDays and is the snapshot is older then the given days it will be deleted. Cleanedup space is freed after curator has done his magics ;) Please change $DeleteAfterdays, $DryRun, $PrismElementIP, $UserName, $Password to match your needs. The $DryRun can be $True or $False. When it is $True no real snapshots will be deleted. Remove the "-password" in the connect string and the script will ask for you password. ;) Make sure the powershell cmdlets are installed. More info here: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=PS-Cmdlets-AOS-v6_5:ps-ps-cmdlets-installation-v2.html This script is an evolution of https://next.nutanix.com/how-it-works-22/list-current-snapshots-via-a-script-32693 Version : 1.0 Date : 23 December 2022 Created by : Jeroen Tielen - Tielen Consultancy B.V. Email : jeroen@tielenconsultancy.nl History : 1.0 : 23 December 2022 - Initial setup script. #> # Tune this variables to your need. $DeleteAfterDays = 30 $Dryrun = $False $PrismElementIP = "192.168.2.76" $UserName = "admin" $Password = ConvertTo-SecureString "nutanix/4u" -AsPlainText -Force # Load snapins and connect to cluster. ASNP Nutanix* Connect-NutanixCluster -Server $PrismElementIP -UserName $UserName -Password $Password -AcceptInvalidSSLCerts -ForcedConnection # Script Start. $NutSnaps = Get-NTNXSnapshot $AllNutVMs = Get-NTNXVM | Select UUID,VMName If ($DryRun -eq $True) {Write-Host "Dryrun activated, no snapshots will be deleted.`n" -ForegroundColor Yellow -BackgroundColor Black} else {Write-Host "Dryrun disabled, snapshots will be deleted if older then $DeleteAfterdays days.`n" -ForegroundColor Red -BackgroundColor Black} ForEach ($Snap in $NutSnaps) { $VMName= ($AllNutVMs | Where {$_.UUID -eq $Snap.VMUUID}).VMName $SnapTime=$Snap.createdtime/1000 $SnapDt=(Get-Date '1/1/1970').AddMilliSeconds($SnapTime) $ActualSnapDt=$SnapDt.ToLocalTime() $Limit = (Get-Date).AddDays(-$DeleteAfterDays) If ($Limit -lt $ActualSnapDt) { Write-Host "Snapshot named " -NoNewline Write-Host $Snap.SnapShotName -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline Write-Host " on VM " -NoNewline Write-Host $VMName -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline Write-Host " created on " -NoNewline Write-Host $ActualSnapDt -ForegroundColor Yellow -NoNewline Write-Host " is within the limit and will not be deleted." } Else { Write-Host "Snapshot named " -NoNewline Write-Host $Snap.SnapShotName -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewline Write-Host " on VM " -NoNewline Write-Host $VMName -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewline Write-Host " created on " -NoNewline Write-Host $ActualSnapDt -ForegroundColor Red -NoNewline Write-Host " is older then the limit and will be deleted." If ($DryRun -eq $False) { $Remove = Remove-NTNXSnapshot -UUID $Snap.UUID } } } |
Offcourse I encourage customers to use AHV when using Nutanix, but sometimes customers are stuck using VMWare due to specific requirements or others reasons. Setting up Nutanix on AHV is pretty straightforward but on VMWare it is a bit different. In this blog I will show you how to setup Read more…
Hereby an overview from blog posts I created on the Nutanix site.
Update: Script is updated with new features and moved to github. When you have a share with FSLogix containers you probably want to keep this in sync with you active directory. Users who are deleted, inactive or disabled can still claim space on the file server. This script will read all Read more…
