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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
proyoungNutanix Employee
posted in Files Storage
Nutanix Files :- Storage Overview

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

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
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AritroNutanix Employee
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Nutanix Files Storage Container

Why Files Storage container is system managed? What all different purposes this container is used for?

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
proyoung
Nutanix Employee
proyoungNutanix Employee
posted in Files Storage
Nutanix Files Network and Port Requirements

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. Flexible and responsive to workload requirements, Files is a fully integrated, core component of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. It leverages the underlying existing infrastructure of Nutanix Core components and acts as a service on a running and proven HCI solution. There are two sorts of communication which happens;Since files relies on Nutanix HCI cluster for core infra requirements and thus we have a requirement for an internal network to achieve this, this network is used by fsvm to communicate with CVM for Internal communication. For example storage traffic, rest api calls. The other network which is needed to ensure external communication can take place like share\export access by clients, AD, DNS and NTP. Ideally these two networks are segmented so externa

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
proyoung
Nutanix Employee
proyoungNutanix Employee
posted in Files Storage
Nutanix Files EOL and EOM discussion.

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. Flexible and responsive to workload requirements, Files is a fully integrated, core component of the Nutanix Enterprise Cloud. Nutanix Files release cycle is independent of AOS releases. Since it’s functionality is independent of AOS. However, AOS acts as Storage and UI provider etc. . There are still a lot of components on which Files is dependent on. That’s the reason there is always a supported AOS base. Hopefully, in the near future Nutanix Files may completely decouple from AOS. This leads to an interesting point that what version customer should be on? Before we discuss this point let’s understand about Nutanix Files release history. Nutanix Files (formerly known as AFS) 2.x became GA with AOS 5.0.x Nutanix Files (formerly known as AFS) 3.x beca

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 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
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5 years ago
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thiru_nutanixExplorer
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Is it possible to enable SMB v.1?

We have installed AFS in my organization. Have a quires from one of the application team, that the will support support SMB v1 shares. Will it possibility to enable or change SMB protocol to comparability mode? File Server 3.2.0.2 Thanks

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RichardsonPorto
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago
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kovitkingAdventurer
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Citrix Profiles management on Nutanix Files

Hi all, Just checking does anyone had implement Citrix VDI using Citrix Profiles management store on Nutanix files yet? Any issue should we concern please share. Thank you.

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 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. These are the points which needs to be considered before Nutanix Files new deployment or Upgrade :- 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. Nutanix Files 2.2.x version is supported on all AOS versions released post 5.0. Nutanix 3.x 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. Note : * Nutanix files product team recommends to follow the Upgrade Path & Software Product

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proyoung
Nutanix Employee
5 years ago

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