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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 - Load Balancing

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 offe...

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Nutanix Files - FSVM Max Connections Notification

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...

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File Analytics VM | How to remove Analytics VM

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...

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.snapshot folder on Nutanix Files share
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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...

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Nutanix Files 3.x - Expanding File Server Storage

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...

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Nutanix Files - High-Availability

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). Whe...

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Nutanix Files - Changing IP Addresses for Existing FSVMs

Nutanix Files Cluster comprises of multiple virtual machines or FSVMs, which require both internal (Storage) and external (Client) IP Addresses. Files Cluster with 3 x FSVMs require at least 7 IP Addresses (3 x Internal + 3 x External + One Internal IP). Storage Network ( Internal Network ) needs to...

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Does Nutanix Files support dedupe & compression?
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Does Nutanix Files support dedupe & compression?

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Files Series | Is Files upgrade disruptive

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 Nu...

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Upgrading Nutanix Files 3.x

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 high...

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Nutanix Files :- Exports and Shares Basics

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....

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Nutanix Files - is it possible to downsize?

When making a decision on increasing storage capacity of Nutanix Files FSVM cluster please keep in mind that the option to downsize is not available at this point.To change the storage capacity, enter the new size (in TiBs) in the FILE SERVER SIZE field.Note: Choose a size greater than the existing...

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Nutanix Files (AFS) - Graceful Shutdown and Start-up

There can be a situation where you have to either shutdown the entire AOS cluster hosting Nutanix Files, or just the Nutanix Files (AFS) cluster.Gracefully shutdown Nutanix Files and Nutanix AOS ClusterVerify that no snapshot or replication is taking place. Power off all guest VMs on the cluster, le...

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Nutanix Files Series | Queries you always had

Nutanix Files architecture and design is beautiful and complex at the same time, and let’s agree we all get some questions when we enter into the world of storage with Files.“We all have thought of these questions and still figuring out the answers” Which hypervisors support Nutanix Files? How do yo...

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Nutanix File Licensing
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We are looking to setup a Nutanix File Server on our ESX cluster, this file server will be housing 21TB of data. I know that we get 1TB for free, how to enable the licensing for the other 20TB as i believe it is per TB.

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Uploading to Nutanix files share is slow compared to Windows File Server on same cluster.
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Hi Currently experimenting with 'Files' which has created a 3 x VM cluster (4 vcpu & 12Gb Ram each) running on a 3 node NTX cluster on a 10Gbe network I have created a SMB share and tested it with a 4Gb ISO file which transferred at a slow rate of 25-35 Mb/s If I transfer the same file to m...

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aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Files: Performance Optimization

Mike McGhee demonstrates the scale up and scale out capabilities of Nutanix Files. https://youtu.be/dOHFKq2DzlI Do you run Nutanix Files? Share your experiences with the broader community, be the first to reply here.

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Nutanix Files command reference
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Is there a comprehensive Nutanix Files related command reference guide (PDF/HTML)? Similarly, a reference guide for Files with respect to APIs, RESTful calls, PowerShell/Python APIs etc?

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Command line access to Nutanix File Server VM (FSVM) via SSH - Nutanix Files

An administrator may wish to log in to FSVM, for example, to perform network troubleshooting tasks.This can be achieved by establishing command line access to one of the CVMs on the cluster first and then logging in to FSVM. Please see step-by-step example below.Log in to CVM. Optionally, verify IP...

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Nutanix Files SMB Share Default Permission

Files currently supports SMB 2.0 and SMB 2.1, SMB 3.0 protocol. For SMB 3.0, it is important to note that Files has started supporting some of SMB 3.0 Features like SMB3 Signing ( 3.2.0 onward) and SMB3 Encryption support is coming with coming releases. We do not have any plans to support the SMB 1...

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Nutanix Files: Notify users of approaching quota limits

You can set up automatic notifications to be sent out to users whenever they reach configured quota limits on Nutanix Files (also known as AFS). This can be achieved by either using Web GUI or nCLI.GUI method is described in Nutanix File Guide.To configured automatic email notifications from nCLI fo...

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How can I access the container via Putty on CVM
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Is there a directory I can access on the CVM to access files on the container? I want to change some permissions on a vmdx to convert onto AHV

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aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Files: Fast and Easy Deployment

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. https://youtu.be/gJagnILsd94

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aluciani Community Manager

Nutanix Files: File Analytics

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. https://youtu.be/xmvppgm1baY Are you using Nutanix Files Analytics - be the first to reply and share your...

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Nutanix File and NFS Mount Examples

The objective of this post is to provide inputs on requirement of using NFS exports. Nutanix Files implemented NFSv4 Support from Files 3.0.0.1 and since then Nutanix Files has come as a long way. Along with the release of Files 3.5, it now supports NFSv3 as well. They are enabled by default and dep...

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