Files Storage

Nutanix Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution with inherent high-availability. File services contribute to important business functions in enterprises (VDI / Home Directories / Legal etc.), which is why Nutanix Files offers transparent HA for the Files Cluster VMs (FSVMs). When one or more FSVM(s) are unable to serve their file-shares for various reasons, another FSVM will perform a 'takeover' operation to assume the degraded FSVM's External IP address and shares/exports. During an HA event, the External IP is removed from the degraded FSVM and all shares exported. The FSVM taking over will then import the shares / exports and be assigned the other FSVMs external IP on a sub-interface of it's own External network.  This allows the operation to be transparent to the client and prevents any configuration change by the customer before, during, or after the HA events. Nutanix Files offers both SMB shares and NFS exports, both protocols behave differently in failure s

Hi there, i’m trying to get an overview about using Rest API for Provisioning of nfs Ressources. Are there any examples for typical tasks (f.e. add/delete  nfs share)? I can’t find any so far….. Thanks a lot for every helpful comment! :-)   Daniel  

There is a .snapshot folder in the root of each of our Nutanix Files shares.  We think it is created by Files Analytics.  Can anybody confirm that and explain how it works?  We think some data may have been accidentally deleted from the folder so we want to make sure nothing has been damaged...

Let’s say we deployed a new File server and want to use the power of analytics, a tool created to provide data and statistics on the operations and contents of a file server. Once File Analytics is deployed on AOS cluster. We can Launch the File Analytics GUI from prism to subscribe to a File Server. Data on the Analytics VM is protected and is kept in a separate volume group other than Files volume group. But what if we made a mistake while deploying or we want to roll back? How can we delete the File Analytic VM?Before answering the question, we need to be absolutely sure if we really want to delete the analytic VM as it will delete all the data and configuration related to the Analytics. So taking the above note as a serious disclaimer, if we wish to go-ahead Do we have a way to remove the Analytics VM? Just follow the documentation mentioned belowRemove Files Analytics     Want to know more about Files Analytics and it’s features and configuration? Give the following document a co

If you've deployed a Nutanix Files server you may notice there is one set of numbers provided on the File Server dashboard to describe space usage. On the storage dashboard you may see noticeably different figures for space usage in the container, even though the Files server is the only thing residing in that container. The first thing to understand about this is that both sets of figures are valid. They differ because they represent different perspectives on storage space usage. It helps to keep in mind that the Files deployment is a set of virtual machines. The File Server VM (FSVM) cluster manages its own filesystem on top of the attached VGs, and the storage space details shown on the File Server dashboard are from that perspective. You might be thinking "well duh!" but this simple fact is essential to understanding the explanations that follow. We can set aside the fact that the FSVMs as a cluster use multiple volume groups made up of several vDisks. We can think of it as a sing

Veeam Backup for Nutanix File server SMB Share backup - From Snapshot path?  Currently we are backing up the Nutanix file share backups using Veeam backup (NAS SMB file share) Current settings:Backup Directly from FIle shareThis option is skipping some of the locked files whcih is expected…Would like to change it to Backup from storage snapshot at the following path:? I would like to know what would be the snapshot path for Nutanix file SMB shares? what I need to give here? Can someone suggest so that I can avoid skipped files issue on the backup jobs 

Does Nutanix Files support dedupe & compression?

Good evening, Following problem:I do have a single folder sitting on one of my shares, and I tried literally everything to get it deleted.When trying to delete, or move to a different share, I only get the error “An unexpected network error occured”, so, not very helpful on that front.I was able to change said folders owner (logged into CVM via ssh → logged into FSVM) via afs share.get_authorization_info <share> <folder>However, this didn't help.To make a long story short: Is there a way to delete a folder within a share on a FSVM directly?Thanks in advance!

I’m in the process of installing Nutanix Files on Esxi but I’m stuck at Add Network (through vCenter)We found this link but it is no more availablehttps://next.nutanix.com/nutanix-files-71/failing-afs-pre-check-deployment-add-network-through-vcenter-27924?postid=42955#post42955Any help is appreciated 

Mike McGhee demonstrates how quickly Files can be deployed and ready for service. Because it's native to the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud, everything can be easily seen and managed through the Prism interface.

Mike McGhee demonstrates Nutanix File Analytics, which provides insights into file and user activity including audit trails and anomaly detection for your SMB and NFS shares with Nutanix Files. Are you using Nutanix Files Analytics - be the first to reply and share your experiences with the community!

Good Day! Regarding my nutanix’s file server data has been grown up very well. So I need to clear some non-moving file because Nutanix is quite expensive storage I need allow Nutanix to store for active file only. I would like to confirm with you as below Can we listed non-moving files via command line ? Can we manage non-moving files to another place ?          (ex. backup server, NAS, Arcserve)

Automatic notifications can be set up to be sent out to users whenever a configured quota limit is reached on a Nutanix Files share.   There are two quota levels: User: Sets a specific amount of storage for a single user. For example, if an administrator allots only 1 GB, then you cannot take more than 1 GB. Group: Sets the amount of space that is available to each user in that group. For example, a group with a policy of 10 GB and 10 users can potentially use 100 GB of data (10 x 10 = 100 GB) under that quota policy. How do notifications work? When the quota reaches 90 percent consumption, Files sends warning emails to the recipients. When the quota reaches 100 percent consumption, Files sends alert emails to the recipients. If the quota has a soft limit and you continue to consume over 100 percent of the storage, then Files sends an email notification to the recipients every 24 hours.   The quota set up can be achieved by either using Web GUI or nCLI. To configure quota in Prism foll

How to Migrate AFS (Nutanix Files) from one AHV cluster to another AHV Cluster. we want migrate our AFS environment on another cluster with all existing configuration.Any Lead or Help

Nutanix Files (formerly known as AFS) does not follow the Long Term Support Release (LTS) and Short Term Support Release (STS) tracks. AOS needs to be upgraded to a compatible version before you deploy Nutanix Files or upgrade Nutanix Files.One of the standard policies that Nutanix follows is to disable 1-click downloads for Product versions which are EOL. Nutanix Files follows a similar approach and you will no longer see any other 2.2.x version other than 2.2.4. 2.2.4 is maintained for customers who are in the AOS 5.5.x branch. Since Nutanix files have evolved a lot in the 3.x branch, other customers are recommended to adopt the latest 3.x version.Try to understand this concept from the following screenshot taken from the Upgrade Path page.In this example, I have assumed that AOS is already upgraded to 5.10.x (LTS) from 5.5.x( 5.5.x). Now we want to upgrade the existing Files cluster to 2.2.3. How to plan?Always refer to Nutanix Files x.x.x.x Release Notes before a new deployment or

This content is taken from Nutanix File Solution doc available on the portal. I am just reposting this content here. 🙂 Happy Learning Please refer the solution doc for more details https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2041-Nutanix-Files:TN-2041-Nutanix-Files As shown in the following figure, each FSVM uses three separate vDisks: a 12 GiB boot disk that contains the boot image, a 45 GiB disk (/home/nutanix) that contains logs and software state, and a 45 GiB disk for Cassandra data. A Nutanix Files cluster is a single namespace that includes a collection of file systems used to support the SMB and NFS shares. These file systems use Nutanix volume groups as storage. Volume groups enable both high availability and scale-out for the file systems. A volume group is a collection of logically related vDisks (or volumes) attached to the guest via iSCSI. When an FSVM is down for maintenance or if a fault occurs, one of the surviving FSVMs takes over volum

Hello,My boss is very interested in migrating our Server 2012 r2 file server to Files. One of the must haves is that we would have to keep our existing DFS namespace. I’m hoping someone can provide some pros, cons, benefits and pitfalls associated with this planned migration. Thanks.   

Hello there! I would like to confirm that after command “<afs>quota.report <Share Folder$>” then I got result as below Point is [uid] is not actual user. Now I can get actual user name one-by-one <afs>ad.uname_from_uid <uid> SMB What should I do, If I need uid convert listed to actual user ? I have over 2000 users, I don’t want to run overthere command 2000 times    +---------+-------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------+-------------+------------------+ |   uid   |   fs_quota  |      used     | principal_type |    principal_name    |  quota_size | enforcement_type | +---------+-------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------+-------------+------------------+ | 1100500 |      0      | 1398094120448 |     kUser      |       _default       |      0      |      kSoft       | | 1101108 |  4294967296 |    93868544   |     kGroup     |  MTL-A-900_Manager   |  4294967296 |      kHard       | | 1101110 |  4294967296 |   3380

In a 5 node Nutanix Cluster, what is the maximum  File Server VMs you can have per File Server?

Good day! Now I can get File Server’s Disk Quota usage of my users   +---------+-------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------+-------------+------------------+ |   uid   |   fs_quota  |      used     | principal_type |    principal_name    |  quota_size | enforcement_type | +---------+-------------+---------------+----------------+----------------------+-------------+------------------+ | 1100500 |      0      | 1398094120448 |     kUser      |       _default       |      0      |      kSoft       | | 1101108 |  4294967296 |    93868544   |     kGroup     |  MTL-A-900_Manager   |  4294967296 |      kHard       | | 1101110 |  4294967296 |   338030080   |     kGroup     |  MTL-A-900_Manager   |  4294967296 |      kHard       | | 1101111 |      0      |   261950976   |     kUser      |       _default       |      0      |      kSoft       | | 1101117 |      0      |   2071973888  |     kUser      |       _default       |      0      |      kSoft       |   How can I

Iam working on a development in which we are planning to provide a solution to audit nutanix files via web. Can someone tell what are the steps i need to do for testing the code?? Where do i start? what is the way to audit the nutanix files programatically as a developer?? Totally a beginner here ….. can someone help me with this???

Our Nutanix Files HA state is currently False.  The Nutanix Kbase states to restart Nutanix Files, but doesn’t state how to do it. Alert - A160167 - File Server HA state (nutanix.com)How do I restart Nutanix Files, and is it service affecting?

We do not have the option to convert a standard share to distributed share or a distributed share to a standard share as of file version 3.7. We have a feature request open with Nutanix engineering to enable this feature. The workaround is to create a new share and move the files to the new share using data migration tools. Migration Tools like Robocopy, PeerSoftware and Datadobi can be used. Details on the various migration tools can be found in the below portal document: https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2016-Nutanix-Files-SMB-Migration-Guide:top_migration_tools.html The following documents explains an example migration using robocopy: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2016-Nutanix-Files-SMB-Migration-Guide:top_migration_example_robocopy.html

Please help me to find the best solution for syncing files from one NFS server in Nutanix files to another one in different location.The speed between them is 1 gbps.Which Nutanix native tool is possible to help me with this task?

I am hoping to migrate files from our Windows server to Nutanix files. For backup purposes, Azure is our off-site location. I’ve hit some stumbling block in trying to accomplish this. This is what I’ve tried so far.Configure CloudConnect - Unfortunately, we subscribe to Azure through a CSP, so I’m unable to get the required certificate to set this up. -Failed Next idea was to sync Nutanix Files with a Windows File server through DFS-R and perform my Azure backups from the Windows mirror. Nutanix doesn’t support DFS-R -Failed Use our current backup solution “Microsoft Data Protection Manager” to backup Nutanix files. But, can’t install the DPM agent on Nutanix. -FailedIf anyone has a suggestion, I’m running out of ideas. Ideally, I’d like to not have to invest into a new backup solution. Thanks all!