Nutanix Unified Storage

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

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

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

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.

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