VM CPU pinning on Nutanix AHV

You can do VM CPU pinning on Nutanix AHV as well. It is available from the command line as a parameter when you create or update VM. To enable or disable vCPU pinning for particular VM, you have to execute a command vm.update with parameter vcpu_hard_pin=false or true

NOTE: VM must be powered off state before you can make changes.

See example below:
<acropoli>vm.update test-win16-01 vcpu_hard_pin=true
test-win16-01: complete

Pull virtual machine configuration again vm.get <vm_name> to see if changes were applied to the virtual machine configuration.

}
    num_cores_per_vcpu: 1
    num_threads_per_core: 1
    num_vcpus: 1
    num_vnuma_nodes: 0
    power_state_mechanism: "kGuest"
    vcpu_hard_pin: True
    vga_console: True
    vm_type: "kGuestVM"
}

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