Nutanix StartVm

Nutanix StartVm

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Start AHV VM by extId

Power on a Nutanix AHV VM via the VMM v4 API and return the async task extId.

yaml
type: io.kestra.plugin.ee.nutanix.ahv.StartVm

Start an AHV VM

yaml
id: nutanix_start_vm
namespace: company.team
tasks:
  - id: start_vm
    type: io.kestra.plugin.ee.nutanix.ahv.StartVm
    host: "{{ secret('NUTANIX_HOST') }}"
    token: "{{ secret('NUTANIX_TOKEN') }}"
    vmExtId: "{{ secret('NUTANIX_VM_EXT_ID') }}"
Properties

Prism Central host

Required Nutanix Prism Central host or IP address.

VM extId

Required extId of the VM to start.

Password

Prism Central password; required when no token is provided.

Reference (ref) of the pluginDefaults to apply to this task.

Default9440

Prism Central port

API port for Prism Central; defaults to 9440.

Defaulthttps

Scheme

HTTP scheme (https default) for the Prism Central API.

Bearer token

Bearer token for Prism Central; when set, username/password are optional.

Username

Prism Central username; required when no token is provided.

Defaulttrue

Verify SSL

Whether to verify SSL certificates; defaults to true. Disabling this (setting to false) causes the client to trust all certificates without validation, exposing connections to man-in-the-middle attacks. Only set to false for trusted, isolated test environments, never in production.

Task extId

ExtId of the asynchronous start task.

Timestamp

The timestamp (in milliseconds since epoch) when the operation completed.