Nutanix : Create, Cloning and Detele used acli

AHV is very powerful from a scripting interface the so called acli. The flowing section is providing some basic scripts/commands that can be used in the acli interface.

• Creating a VM using a script
• Cloning a VM using a script
• Delete a VM using a script

1. Create VM

• acli vm.create testVM memory=1024M num_vcpus=1;
• acli vm.disk_create testVM create_size=30G container=SelfServiceContainer
• acli vm.on testVM2 - On the VM
• acli vm.off testVM2- Off the VM

2. Cloning VM

• acli vm.clone testVM3 clone_from_vm=testVM

3. Delete VM

•  acli vm.delete testVM3

Source: https://ce-ahvworkshop.readthedocs.io/en/latest/VM_Script/vm_script.html