Nutanix Unified Storage

Hi I wrote a dutch blog about the possiblity to migratie files to Nutanix Files using MOVEhttps://marcotubben.wixsite.com/marcosblog/post/files-migratie-met-move Happy reading !

I need to migrate a FSVM file server cluster from my older Nutanix cluster to a new cluster. It sounds like there are several options for migrating my file shares that I have listed below. Have you done any of the options below and what would you recommend? 1) Protection domains (Entire FSVM cluster, moves IPs)2) Smart DR (Per Share, moves IPs and updates DNS)3) MOVE > (Per Share, new DNS, and manually update file share configs)  4) Something else? Any insights or experience would be appreciated. Thank you!

We have a cluster with 3 nodes, we have configured multiple bridges for different networks, we isolated the NTNX cluster management traffic on specific VLAN and the Backplane traffic on another VLAN as well, we have a backup network with two different dedicated links on a different VLAN.This backup network which the Veritas NetBackup software is in, and as far as I know it supports Nutniax clusters backup via a plugin, the backup host in our setup is on a different VLAN on a different bridge, so it's isolated from Nutanix cluster management and cluster VIP.What is the best way to get the backup solution working with the mentioned setup, is there a way to expose the Nutanix API and allow access for that VLAN on dedicated bridge via different IP? or we have to configure network segmentation for KVolumns service? and if so, what the recommended way to route the traffic between the CVMs and the backup network bridge?Thanks

Tried getting there from “Files” link in main demo.nutanix.com portal, or from the “Files Console” link underneath Files.  This doesn’t affect Files Analytics or Data Lens, except any links that take you to the Files Console will prompt.The admin creds provided don't work.

Has anyone set this up? I am having issues with Connectivity test from Storware/Nutanix Files I think that its URL related but the errors are very undescriptive 

Hello folks,There is a requirement to configure Oracle RAC in a Nutanix environment.The hypervisor will be used with AHV, and license it plan to use is NCI Starter.It appears to be possible to implement this by using the Nutanix Volumes functionality to reference the Shared Disk as an iSCS target to the internal Guest OS.In the past, there was no cost for internal use with Nutanix Volumes, but now with the new license format, will an additional NUS license be required? Or is a separate NUS license not required for internal use?https://www.nutanix.com/products/cloud-platform/software-optionsFrom this link, it looks like that's not necessary.. Thank you

I have nutanix on premisesHave anyone configure nutanix objets as netbackup s3 repository for storing backups?Trying to configure and always fails withcredential validation failed. provide correct cloud account name and credential

Hello team,Always in learning Nutanix that’s totally new for me, I performed some tests today. One of those was to remove a disk to check if system will still be up. And… no :)All the CVM is crashed because it don’t find the removed disk.I have a Nutanix CE with a single node cluster. Is Nutanix storage pool not working as a RAID (1 or 5?) by default? Is there something to configure? Coming from VMWare, I make the comparison. On my ESXi I can lost one disk as I’m protected by the RAID-5 of the Raid-controller. Should I also use a RAID-5 for Nutanix? I read that disk must be in RAID-0 and Nutanix will protect it. How protect my single node cluster from a single disk failure?I certainly misunderstand or misconfigure something. Thanks for you help ! PS: The disk I removed was not one of those declared for the CVM during the installation, it’s a “Data” disk. 

Why can't I add a new folder？

Dears: Currently, I found a problem when using Prometheus to monitor Nutanix Objects according to https://prism IP:9440/oss/api/nutanix/metrics. This works fine for a long time.But when our AD team disable NTLM v1 in domain controller, problem happened, Prometheus could not work as before to get the data from API.Current Prometheus config is like below:- job_name: 'object_exporter_bucketname’   metrics_path: /oss/api/nutanix/metr

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?

I need to adding new 5 Hard Disk Drive in existing 3 node including 1 clusterHW: NutanixHypervisor: AHV 

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

Hi, Im trying to create multiple nested shares using the cli. Trying something like this as a testncli fs add-share uuid=UUID name=PI -share-path=/PITEST/PIbut I get this prompt.. Error: Please provide the password (Use -p option)  What am I missing?  Also is there an easier way to create multiple shares using something like an API? Thanks,  Paul  

Hi team:We are doing POC for Nutanix Objects. So far function testing has no problems, but we have a question about backup: How to backup objects which is located Nutanix Objects? I don’t know if there are 3rd backup software supports to backup objects in Nutanix Objects. We now use IBM TSM and EMC Networker for on-premises backup for VMDK, file and DB. Thanks!

Hi Team, I am new to Nutanix and I am learning the product. Like VMware supports adding external storage systems via iSCSI / FC and we can create datastore. Nutanix does not support external storage connection via iSCSI or FC, am I right? The only option is add local disks on the AHV server… Is there any roadmap when the external storage connectivity will be allowed?

Hi All, I have deployed one node cluster and it is running well.I would like to additional HDD of 500GBI added the 500 GB drive on the AHV node however how do I add it on the consoleany suggestion… thanks

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.  

You may be aware of Objects Browser, the powerful yet easy to use browser-based s3 client that comes built into every Nutanix Objects deployment (if you have no idea what I’m talking about you can get a quick overview of it here). Well, this already extremely useful and popular feature of Objects has just become even more useful with the latest release of Objects (v4.3), which adds a special new capability known as Objects Visualizer. This feature lets you view and, in some cases, directly edit the contents of a stored obj

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?  

Our Nutanix Files HA state is currently False.  The Nutanix Kbase states to restart Nutanix Files, but doesn’t state how to do it. Alert - A160167 - File Server HA state (nutanix.com)How do I restart Nutanix Files, and is it service affecting?

Nutanix Objects is a modern, software-defined, scale-out object storage solution that excels in a number of use cases requiring S3-compatible storage. One such use case is big data, which really is more  an umbrella term encompassing everything from analytics to artificial intelligence and machine learning (AI/ML). Typically big data workloads involve storing huge amounts of data, but at the same time they require high IOPS, low latency access to the data. For example, many analytics solutions support interactive queries, which must be responded to in a timely manner. With its blazing performance, features optimized for analytics workloads and application vendor validations in this space, Objects is a fantastic fit for the needs of big data - the ideal basis for your data lake.A white paper written recently by IDC discusses the role of modern object stores in the world of big data, and in particular Nutanix Objects. The paper shares interesting insights into the growing objec

Hi all, I have two Nutanix Files (FS1 & FS2) created in the same cluster, FS1 has replication protection and 3 shares created (e.g. share1, share2, share3), FS2 is local protection only with 2 shares (e.g. share4, share5) created. Due to business need, share4 would need replication protection. Is there any way to migrate share4 from FS2 to FS1 online? 

Dears:I have a POC plan to deploy Nutanix Objects on ESXi, on the Objects guide, it mentioned “The minimum supported version of NSX-T is 2.4.” I want to know if we do not use NSX-T, is it OK to deploy Objects?How to implement IPAM? Will Nutanix implement it by itself? Thanks!

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.