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Background Sending REST API calls to the cluster is sometimes slow and not very efficient. I came across some interesting posts on that topic. It looks like while REST is getting all the results (even the one you are not interested with) it exist another query type that only returns what you are looking for. This is GraphQL. Let's have a look !

Background While working on a AHV cluster, you can notice that, with time, the storage decreases. This is obvious, all VMs are using thin-provisioning by default. Doing some cleanup and maintenance is required on every IT systems and Nutanix does not escape the rule. One area where we are not focusing enough is the snapshots we are creating and most of the time forgot !

Backgound Provide a quick and dirty way to get basic cluster details in Php from the command line. That sound great. And indeed, very feasible making good use of REST API calls.

Background Nutanix platform can be queried out by external application to read/write information to/from the cluster. This can be very handy to connect Nutanix with the external world. This is how Nutanix technology partners are inter-acting with the platform. Example, a platform like Rubrik is making good use of those APIs to perform backups. on the other side, this is how Nutanix instruct vmware to create VMs ... I've decided to implement a small script to get access to some cluster details and then create a little dashboard in my own flavour. You can consider this as a technology demonstrator.