Files Storage

I’m standing-up a Nutanix File cluster and want to move an existing WIndows DFS Namespace to the cluster. The namespace needs to remain the same as it is used by web apps. I thought I could simply add the AFS cluster as a Namespace server, replicate the files, and then remove the old namespace servers. However, when I go to add the new namespace server, it wants a local folder location which isn’t available. I was sure I saw that Nutanix Files is compatible with Windows DFS but I don’t know what I’m missing. Suggestions?

I tested a planned failover of Nutanix Files v3.6 today from local site A to remote site B after reviewing the DR documentation. I successfully ‘migrated’ site A to site B however I expected the FSVM’s to migrate as well. Instead, they stayed at their original site A.     I assume that this is by design and my assumption is incorrect or did I miss a step somewhere?

Hi All,   I’ve testing old Nutanix NX box demo with no MA support.  The AOS version install is 5.10.6   I tried to create file server using wizard in prism element.  In the last step of wizard when I prompt create the error message showing    Error creating: Invalid CVM subnet configuration, possibly due to incomplete CVM re-ip workflow   I’ve run ncc check and didn’t found subnet mismatch issue.   Please kindly advice how to fix this.

What is File Blocking? File blocking features allows you to restrict specific file types from appearing on a file server or share by specifying the blocked file extensions.   Files (File Services) The Nutanix Files feature allows users to leverage the Nutanix platform as a highly available file server. This allows for a single namespace where users can store home directories and files.   Files applies the file blocking policy to all levels of a share or export, where the ability to create the specified file type is then disabled. An attempt to create files with a blocked extension results in an error.   After enabling file blocking, Files does not permit the following operations: Creating a file with the blocked extension. Renaming an existing file to a file with the blocked extension. Duplicating a file with a blocked extension. Moving a file with a blocked extension.   If you want to enable file blocking on a file-server check out this page. If you want to enable file blocking on sha

Hello, I deployed File Analytics (FA). I certainly made a mistake in choosing the network. When I want to Enable File Analytics, I have this message : “Cannot connect to File Server: files.domain.lab. Please try again later.” Is it possible to change the network configuration ? Is it possible to disable FA form FS manually ? I test ping from FA-VM to FS domain name = KO   Thanks 

Nutanix Files (Files) enables you to share files across user work stations or VMs in a centralized and protected location to eliminate the requirement for a third-party file server.     One of the main tasks while maintaining a Files server is configuring and understanding Quotas.    A Nutanix Administrator while handling and maintaining Files architecture might have the following questions regarding Quotas.      What are Quotas? What are the features offered in Quotas? What are the different types of Quotas enforcement policy?  Which Quota policy will take precedence in case of a conflict? What are some common useful commands related to Quotas for troubleshooting or administrative purposes?       Want to know the answer for the above-mentioned questions?    Give the following knowledge-base article a read!   KB-6842   Want to know more about Files?    Give this article a coffee read!   Nutanix files Guide     

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

Now it’s possible to update Nutanix Files cluster name, File Server VM configuration and Network Configuration from PRISM UI interface. Let’s understand these options one by one. 1. Nutanix Files - "Cluster and File server Rename"Nutanix Files Cluster rename was introduced in Nutanix Files 2.1.1 and minimum AOS version needed was 5.1.1. In the initial days, it was only possible using ncli command. code:ncli fs edit name=new_fs_name uuid= From Nutanix Files 3.0.0.1 on-wards, the cluster rename can be done via Prism UI. Steps Select File Server and click on the Update tab. Select File Server Basics radio button and continue. Leave the File Server domain. Delete File Server DNS Entries. Rename the File Server Join the File Server domain Note: Renaming the file server cluster will also rename the FSVM's. New name for the FSVM would be "NTNX--x" where 'x' is the fsvm number. 2. Nutanix Files - "File Server VM capacity configuration" There are times

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  

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

We are running Nutanix Files v3.6.1.1 and are looking for suggestions on an ICAP server for virus scanning.  Is there one in particular you partner with or can suggest?

Does anyone know the granular service account permissions? I can’t give it domain admin credentials.

Where on a Nutanix Files instance can I find logs regarding the creation and modification of directories within a given share?  Particularly I’m looking for logs showing the creation of a directory and then a scripted action to modify the permissions on said directory.  Is this something that is logged?  If so, where would that log reside?

question1: What get "OpenConnection" to do how? question2: Is "Open Connections" the number of sessions for Files? thank you. 

Hi all :) i want to Setup a small Files on my nested (esxi) CE Enviorment for testing and Demo purposes.   I am able to install the Base Packages by modifing the json Metadata.   AFS Version tried so far: 2.2.4, 3.6.1, 3.6.1.1 AOS Version: 2019.02.11   Installation works without Problems. But when i want to Setup the Server i get the following Error after completing the last Step in the Setup: File server spec validation failed, unknown error   I allready give 12GB more RAM per Node to 60 GB/Node. And i checked all Netwoks, IPs, DCs, NTP-Servers and Gateways. Besides the CVMs with 24 GB there is only one Windows VM running with 4GB RAM. Has someone an Idea what this can be? Thanks :)

Nutanix Files is a scalable File Serving solution, which can be accessed by hundred’s or thousands of users.  High availability is a core tenet of Nutanix Files, but how does Nutanix Files load-balance client requests in order to ensure consistent response times and performance?   Nutanix Files offers two TYPES of Shares (SMB) / Exports (NFS): DISTRIBUTED SHARE Distributed shares and exports distribute data by dividing the top-level directories across all the FSVMs that make up the file server. Nutanix Files maintains the directory mapping for each responsible FSVM using InsightsDB. FSVMs use DFS referrals for SMB and junctions for NFSv4 to make sure that clients can connect to the right top-level directories. Distributed share directories work well for home shares and exports because Nutanix Files automatically spreads the workload over multiple FSVMs per user. Distributed shares and exports don’t allow files in the root. STANDARD SHARE A standard share is an SMB share or NFS export h

Nutanix Files offers SMB shares and NFS exports for file serving use-cases in enterprise environments. Not all environments are equal and every solution has some recommendations to cater for high traffic environments, where hundreds or thousands of users might be accessing a single storage endpoint or a file share concurrently. Nutanix AOS and Files offers the flexibility to scale as your requirements grow without down-time or disruption to existing operations. Connection count to existing file shares can increase, where a Nutanix Files environment is being used by more users or applications than initially anticipated at the time of deployment.  An increase in users or usage of the Nutanix Files cluster can trigger a high connection count alert as follows: FileServerVmMaxConnectionsNotification (A160039) The "Maximum Connection limit" alert is generated when the Files cluster has one or more FSVM nodes under extensive load. This alert recommends running *’Performance optimisation'. Thi

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

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...

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 volume group ownership and continues servicing requests.   With the 3.x release of Nutanix Files, volume groups contain 16 virtual disks. From the 3.2 release of Files onward, all disks in the volume group are available for use by the assigned shares, representing a maximum standard share size of 140 TB.   Nutanix Files Storage The initial file system pool created on the volume group uses six of the drives as previously noted and supports 40 TB of data Once this file system pool reaches 80 percent space utilisation, Nutanix

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

Does Nutanix Files support dedupe & compression?

Upgrades are always daunting and scary. The one question which scares us all is  "Will the upgrade be disruptive to my production environment? "    Well, to answer it shortly and briefly. NO, upgrading Nutanix Files will not affect your production environment.   Want to know how upgrades work in Nutanix and the workflow for Nutanix Files Upgrades?   Try going through the following Knowledge Base to understand how upgrades work in Nutanix architecture and what happens during Nutanix Files upgrade. KB-6945     But what if the CVM or Nodes go down during or after the upgrade?   The architecture of Nutanix Files is designed in a way to cater to the failure of CVM or the complete Node failure seamlessly.   In case of a CVM failure, all the active connections are disconnected, initiating the iscsi client to log in again, which happens through the external IP and the connections are now established with a healthy CVM(In short, your environment won't be affected).   Still confused about HA F

Nutanix Files is a software-defined, scale-out file storage solution that provides a repository for unstructured data, such as home directories, user profiles, departmental shares, application logs, backups, and archives. Nutanix Files comprises of 3 x File Server virtual machines which forms a highly-available file-serving cluster atop your existing AOS Cluster. As with any business critical application, it is vital that software upgrades be as non-disruptive as possible, Nutanix offers the same “ONE-CLICK” simplicity for Upgrading your Nutanix Files Cluster. How to plan Nutanix Files Upgrade: Always refer Nutanix Files x.x.x.x Release Notes before a new deployment or an upgrade. Always refer Software Product Interoperability page for AOS and Nutanix Files recommended interoperability. This is critical for a new deployment or upgrade. Always refer Upgrade Paths page before Nutanix Files upgrade. This provides you details about target release version and if they are supported for upgra

There are two types of SMB shares and NFS exports.SMB shares:Distributed (previously called home). Standard (previously called general).NFS exports:Distributed (previously called sharded). Standard (previously called nonsharded).A standard share is an SMB share or NFS export hosted by a single FSVM. A distributed share spreads the workload by distributing the hosting of top-level directories across FSVMs, which also simplifies administration.Distributed shares and exports don’t allow files in the root. Unlike distributed shares and exports, standard shares and exports can store files in the root of the directory. Source :- https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/solutions/details?targetId=TN-2041-Nutanix-Files:top_exports_and_shares.html