How to put Nutanix Acropolis host into maintenance mode

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Today is a quick post on how to check or put Acropolis node into maintenance mode.

How to check if Acropolis hosts are in maintenance mode.

Log in to CVM over SSH and get into acli. From acli, type host. and hit TAB to see available options (See below)

NOTE: below is applicable for AOS 5.0.X or older.

nutanix@NTNX-15SM65300246-A-CVM:10.4.91.56:~$ acli
<acropolis> host.
host.enter_maintenance_mode          Puts a host into maintenance mode.
host.enter_maintenance_mode_check    Check if AHV host can enter maintenance mode.
host.exit_maintenance_mode           Takes a host out of maintenance mode.
host.get                             Retrieves scheduler information about a Host.
host.list                            Lists hosts in the cluster.
host.list_vms                        Lists VMs currently running on the host.
<acropolis> host.

To check if Acropolis hosts is under maintenance mode run command host.list

Hypervisor address  Host UUID                             Schedulable  Hypervisor Type  Hypervisor Name
10.4.91.53          3e15fc7d-8427-4572-9636-2237d828d28c  True         kKvm             AHV
10.4.91.54          08283d45-44dd-472a-ba10-c69aac7e99a1  True         kKvm             AHV
10.4.91.55          90cb2376-04d5-45af-8d70-a9efc9e03378  True         kKvm             AHV

In a column, Schedulable – if the value is TRUE, means the host is not under maintenance mode if it is FALSE – Acropolis hosts is under maintenance mode.

How to put Acropolis node into maintenance mode. From acli run command host.enter_maintenance_mode <hostname or IP address> (see below)

<acropolis> host.enter_maintenance_mode 10.4.91.53
EnterMaintenanceMode: complete
<acropolis>

Acropolis will migrate all VM’s out of the host (same as on any other hypervisor). Run command host.list to verify if the last command takes effect. As you can see, in column Schedulable, for first host value is FALSE, which means the host is in maintenance mode.

<acropolis> host.list
Hypervisor address  Host UUID                             Schedulable  Hypervisor Type  Hypervisor Name
10.4.91.53          3e15fc7d-8427-4572-9636-2237d828d28c  False        kKvm             AHV
10.4.91.54          08283d45-44dd-472a-ba10-c69aac7e99a1  True         kKvm             AHV
10.4.91.55          90cb2376-04d5-45af-8d70-a9efc9e03378  True         kKvm             AHV
<acropolis>

Exit Acropolis host from maintenance mode.

From acli run command host.exit_maintenance_mode <hostname> (See below)

<acropolis> host.exit_maintenance_mode 10.4.91.53
<acropolis> host.list
Hypervisor address  Host UUID                             Schedulable  Hypervisor Type  Hypervisor Name
10.4.91.53          3e15fc7d-8427-4572-9636-2237d828d28c  True         kKvm             AHV
10.4.91.54          08283d45-44dd-472a-ba10-c69aac7e99a1  True         kKvm             AHV
10.4.91.55          90cb2376-04d5-45af-8d70-a9efc9e03378  True         kKvm             AHV
<acropolis>
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Artur Krzywdzinski

Artur is Consulting Architect at Nutanix. He has been using, designing and deploying VMware based solutions since 2005 and Microsoft since 2012. He specialize in designing and implementing private and hybrid cloud solution based on VMware and Microsoft software stacks, datacenter migrations and transformation, disaster avoidance. Artur holds VMware Certified Design Expert certification (VCDX #077).

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