Integrating PowerCLI with External APIs and Tools
Learning Objectives $message = @{text = “VM $vmName has been powered off via automation.”} | ConvertTo-Json…
Integrating PowerCLI with External APIs and Tools
Learning Objectives $vmName = “<your-vm-name>”$outputFile = “C:Tempsnap_status.txt”if status == “FAILED”:url = “https://<your-jira-server>/rest/api/2/issue/”auth = (‘<jira-username>’, ‘<jira-api-token>’)headers =…
Advanced Ansible Playbook for Nutanix: Enterprise-Grade VM Provisioning with Validation, Tagging, and Notification
Introduction – name: Enterprise Nutanix VM Provisioninghosts: localhostgather_facts: falsecollections:- nutanix.ncpvars_files:- nutanix_credentials.yml- enterprise_vm_config.ymlvars:slack_webhook: “https://hooks.slack.com/services/XXXX/YYYY/ZZZZ”tasks:TASK [Check VM health]ok:…
Building a Self-Healing Nutanix Environment with Ansible
Introduction Nutanix Repository on GitHub My Personal Repository on GitHub Self-healing infrastructure reduces downtime and manual…
Deploying Multi-VM Applications on AHV with Ansible
Introduction app_vms:- name: web01memory: 4096vcpus: 2disk: 20subnet: vlan10category: “env:prod”ansible-playbook deploy_app_stack.yml –ask-vault-pass -i inventory.yml Optional Enhancements Add…
Scheduling Certificate Checks with Ansible
Introduction – name: Convert expiry date to epochset_fact:cert_expiry_date: “{{ cert_expiry_raw.stdout | trim }}”cert_expiry_epoch: “{{ cert_expiry_date |…
Managing VM Power State with Ansible
Introduction vm_power_map:web01: powerondb01: powerofftest01: restart Playbook: vm_power_control.yml External Documentation: Diagram: VM Power Workflow Use Case Gracefully…
Automating Snapshot Lifecycle for Nutanix with Ansible
Introduction This playbook gives you complete control over Nutanix VM snapshots, ensuring consistency, compliance, and automation…
Deploying Nutanix AHV VMs with Ansible
Introduction all:hosts:localhost:ansible_connection: local Step 2: Define Credentials File Once your Ansible control node is configured, deploying…