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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: File Analytics

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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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Alona Nutanix Employee

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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proyoung Nutanix Employee

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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Alona Nutanix Employee

Acropolis Files Services: 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 Acropolis File Services. 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 follow th...

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BSchaffer Adventurer

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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Thewanandonly Voyager

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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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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1 month ago
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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proyoung Nutanix Employee

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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Nutanix Files not recovering free space
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I have deleted several shares on the Nutanix File Server we have running in VMware and the free space does not seem to be recovering even after a week. Is there a command i can run in ACLI or NCLI to force the clean up to take place? Or is there a better way to remove the shares other the through t...

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2 months ago
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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...

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Aritro Nutanix Employee

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

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proyoung Nutanix Employee

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,...

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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,...

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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 which Nutanix follows is to...

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thiru_nutanix Adventurer

Is it possible to enable SMB v.1?
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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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4 months ago
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kovitking Voyager

Citrix Profiles management on Nutanix Files
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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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4 months ago
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proyoung Nutanix Employee

Nutanix Files Cluster Configuration Changes from UI

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 a...

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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...

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