Files Storage

Simple, Scalable and Reliable File Storage for the Cloud Era.

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Nutanix Files: Fast and Easy Deployment

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Nutanix Files: Performance Optimization

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Nutanix Files: File Analytics

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152 Topics

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jholmgrenPathfinder
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix Files Report

I have what, I think, should be a simple request, but for the life of me I’m struggling with it.  My boss would like a list of all file shares in Nutanix Files with a count of files inside those shares.  I cannot seem to find a way to report on this via Files Dashboard or Analytics.  A simple .csv export would be fine.  If I drill down into an individual share, I can see the data I need, but I am not really keen on doing that for approximately 100 shares.

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1 year ago
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Matt.BExplorer
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix Files SSH commands

Im trying to find the IP address of a Share in nutanix files ( i know i would be one of our 3 nodes) im having issues with some copiers and scanners scanning to SMB with the host name of the file server so ill be mapping them by IP on the copiers 

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Nutanix Employee
8 months ago
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SaqibExplorer
asked in Files Storage

File Server

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

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bcaballero
2 years ago
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Moises S FAdventurer
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix Files - More networks clients

Is it possible to add more than one NIC as network client in a single deployment of Nutanix Files?I am performing tests in which Nutanix Files would serve 03 different networks and during Files' deployment it is only possible to add 01 network client. However, this test will serve 02 other networks besides the one already configured.

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Michael.Manuele
Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
TTI excalibur
TTI excaliburTrailblazer
asked in Files Storage

Configure AD in PE Settings for Nutanix Files full connection

Do we need to configure the AD authentication in PE Settings to fully connect Nutanix Files in AD?  

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Kcmount
1 month ago
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Jae HoExplorer
asked in Files Storage

Does Files NFS Require DNS?

Linux server requires NFS volume allocation. Volume allocation due to Nutanix Files configuration. The client company does not have a DNS server. In this case, I wonder if there is an error that can occur when DNS is set to an arbitrary domain name that does not exist.

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JeroenTielen
1 year ago
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David86Scout
asked in Files Storage

Enabling Nutanix Files before deploying File Analytics

This might be an obvious question but I’m very new to Nutanix. When reading the deployment guide for Nutanix Files Analytics, it doesn’t explicitly say to enable Files on the cluster. I imagine this process will be two steps, the first making sure Nutanix Files is deployed prior to deploying File Analytics?

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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bereketsolomonAdventurer
asked in Files Storage

File server configuration

Hello Families,i have configures nutanix File server on my environment and it’s up and running perfectly, now i want to create a directory inside my share and i use “/share/dir1/dir2” format but it keep saying “invalid share/export path”

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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SergeySephora
asked in Files Storage

Maximum volume size for VM for File server

Hello, We have the VM with the file serber on installing on one of the node of our Nutanix. For now the size of the disk is 3.5 TB, but we wanted to extend this size up to 4.5TB. Is somebody knows if VM will work correctly with the such big size of the disk?

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Sergei Ivanov
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
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asdasdasdVoyager
asked in Files Storage

LCM framework starting

I downloaded and installed Nutanix CE single-node in a VM and need to test Nutanix Files for that I downloaded File Server, but when I go create FS it tells me:File Server software downloadedVersion 4.4.0.1 downloaded. To proceed with install, an update of File Server Manager(FSM) is required through LCM. Go to LCM If go LCM it get stuck on LCM framework starting… I need to setup this as soon as possible for a test integration. any help?  

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JeroenTielen
3 months ago
dpedrajas
dpedrajasVoyager
asked in Files Storage

Level of traffic or bandwidth of iSCSI by Analytics

Hello, We are trying to find out the level or bandwidth of the iSCSI traffic that Analytics requires. This is because we have allocated Analytics in a different network than the CVMs (Data Service IP) so the traffic will be managed by the firewall. We don’t want to overload the firewall with this kind of traffic that could affect to the rest. Any experience with it?. I haven’t been able to find this kind of detail in the documentation. Thank you!

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JeroenTielen
2 years ago
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albertogVoyager
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix Files REST API to get a list of events

We need REST API to get a list of all deleted files events in the last day per example. We need like this information you can see in UI. What API is used for this? In doc i see something about pulling and events notification, but we just want to query an API from time to time to get the list of events like in the ui, not using push notifications of events.  

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2 months ago
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Matt.BExplorer
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix files command to see who owns share

from cli whats the command to see which Nutatnix files VM owns a share? i’ve done this before and i cant remember what the command was we’ve had issues with copiers not being able to scan when we use the host name but it works fine with the IP 

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BartDonders
8 months ago
TTI excalibur
TTI excaliburTrailblazer
asked in Files Storage

View list of Files user Deleted with File Analytics

In File Analytics, is there a view where we can see a list of users and the files that they have deleted? Many thanks!

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Moustafa Hindawi
11 months ago
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adiarielWayfarer
asked in Files Storage

Indexed search for SMB share?

Hi, I have seen a previous topic on this subject and noticed JeroenTielen said you need to add the share to the index of the windows machine to have it indexed on that specific machine.  but how can you do such a thing when i see in Microsoft forum:Windows does not support indexing network shares. You may still search them, but this is done in real-time without indexing, so may be quite slow. what can i do to make searching in Nutanix shares faster?

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JeroenTielen
20 days ago
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VELOMANANAExplorer
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix share files - Qtree ?

We are running on SMB NetApp and I’m curious to finding out how to implement the Qtree/Quotas in Nutanix files?

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Alona
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
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noffieVoyager
asked in Files Storage

Indexed search for SMB share?

Is there a way to turn on indexing or something equivalent so that searching a SMB file share with hundreds of thousands of files actually returns a result, rather than sitting and spinning forever?  It used to work back before we migrated this share from Windows Server to Nutanix Files share, but I’m wondering if maybe Windows Server had the files/folders indexed.

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JeroenTielen
5 months ago
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Daniel-UnicoVoyager
asked in Files Storage

File Server Space usage growth alert / autogrow

Hi folks!We’re implementing Nutanix Files and we are not sure how to handle following scenario:Let’s assume, we create some File Server with some Shares. We set the size of the File Server to 2TiB. Now we create a lot of share that are used by a lot of endpoints.The usage of the File Server is growing some dozens of GiBs a Month - now worries here. Suddenly some system/user is filling up space rapidly, let’s say 100GiB an hour for the sake of drama. Now, the Cluster wont warn us until it’s almost too late. Maybe this happens in the middle of the night of a holiday that is on a weekend while half of our staff is on vacation and the other half is somehow indisposed/slow/unwary.It would be cool to have some alert, that warns us from extreme usage growth. and it would be great to have some (limited) autogrow featureSo my question to the community: Is there something like that? I know the example is extreme. But from our experience something like that happens from time to time. And if it ha

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2 years ago
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GavinS1991Voyager
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix Files Yearly Backup

Hi, Is it possible to do a yearly backup of a Nutanix file server within the protection configs? Looking to see if we can do Yearly and then keep 3. Current settings are - Hourly Every 1  hour 24 · Daily Every 1  day 7 · Weekly Every week on Sun   4 · Monthly Every month on 1   12

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Chaitrali Deshpande
Nutanix Employee
3 years ago
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Kuldeep@Trailblazer
asked in Files Storage

How to Migrate Nutanix Files from one AHV cluster to another

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

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Nutanix Employee
2 years ago
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zhijuncai123Pathfinder
asked in Files Storage

nutanix files Create a new share error

Why can't I add a new folder？

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6 days ago
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santsWayfarer
asked in Files Storage

Nutanix file analytics

Is Nutanix file analytics exclusively for Nutanix files on Nutanix storage (or) it can provide insight into any file server such SMB or NFS shares from storage like Netapp?

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Nutanix Employee
8 months ago
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DarrylOAdventurer
asked in Files Storage

Standard vs Distributed shares

I read the Supports and Insights page.“A distributed share or export is the repository for the personal files of a user, and a standard share is the repository shared by a group.  A distributed share or export is distributed at the top-level directories while standard shares are on a single file server VM (FSVM).”Does that mean if I create a standard share called “Shared” for 100 users, all 100 users would be hitting a single FSVM for access?Why wouldn’t I want to create “Share” as distributed in order to spread the load?Our first Files setup has D$ as the only top level share as distributed.  Other shares are below it and set as standard.  Any issues with that?  Not sure why we did this, or if we fully understood.  At least the D$ with shares underneath mimic a Windows file server.

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DavidN
2 years ago
proyoung
Nutanix Employee
proyoungNutanix Employee
posted in Files Storage

Nutanix Files : How to plan your upgrade?

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

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
4 years ago
proyoung
Nutanix Employee
proyoungNutanix Employee
posted in Files Storage

Nutanix Files and AOS version Compatibility explained !!

There are usually confusions around the Nutanix Files version compatibility with the installed Acropolis Operating System. Usually the confusion persists because of the issues seen in the past/ However those days are over. [b]These are the points which needs to be considered before Nutanix Files new deployment or Upgrade :-[/b] [quote]Nutanix Files 2.0 became GA along with AOS 5.0 release. have come a long way and the latest available version in this branch in 2.2.4. Nutanix Files release is decoupled from AOS release cycle which means Nutanix Files releases are not synchronous with Nutanix AOS release cycle. However, there are a few dependencies there especially UI and Storage.[/quote] [list] [*][b]Nutanix Files 2.2.x[/b] version is supported on all AOS versions released post 5.0. [*][b]Nutanix 3.x[/b] version became GA in early Jan 2018 and is supported on AOS 5.6 and later. [*]We have 3.2.x and 3.5.x branch maintained. [/list] [b]Note :[/b] * Nutanix files product t

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago

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