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This post was authored by Mike McGhee, Director TMM and Rishi Thaper, Principal Product ManagerImplementing effective access control for unstructured data is a challenging and complex task. A typical mid- to large-size enterprise organization has a massive amount of unstructured data within a dynamic environment. Unstructured data is growing at an unprecedented pace, and to make matters worse, maintaining permissions on repositories of unstructured data is becoming even more challenging.There can be thousands of shares in an organization, hundreds of thousands of folders and numerous control points, thousands of users and groups, and nested security groups. Every day, people change roles or leave organizations, projects & applications are initiated in different parts of organizations, requiring permission changes for various employees and contractors.New requests for granting and revoking access come daily to IT teams as well as identity and access managers, which can make access
Introduced with the Nutanix Files™ release 3.8, Smart DR brought share-level replication between active file server instances for disaster recovery. If you’re not yet familiar with Smart DR, you can get an overview of the feature and its benefits here. Shortly after its initial release, Nutanix introduced 1-minute replication interval support with the Files 3.8.1 release. The recent Files release 4.0 further enhances Smart DR with scalability improvements and self-service restore (SSR) integration.ScalabilitySmart DR allows for file server share replication regardless of the storage density of the physical nodes, but Smart DR did come with the limitation of supporting up to 25 shares for replication. Files 4.0 increases this limit to replicating up to 100 shares between file servers. Replication is supported down to 1-minute replication intervals for up to 25 shares. The remaining shares can support down to 10-minute intervals.SSR InteroperabilityNutanix Files has long supported SSR sn
The Nutanix Files™storage solution introduces new enhancements in its newest 4.0 release that improve client performance, enhance file server compute efficiency, and deliver a consistent experience in mixed environments. We’ve also done some scalability testing we’re excited to share.Improving Synchronous Random Write Performance CPU Scheduling with NFS Flow Control with Nutanix Volumes Pushing the Performance EnvelopeImproving Synchronous Random Write PerformanceTo help take advantage of storage class memory technologies like Intel’s Optane® product line, Nutanix Files 4.0 creates separate high speed log devices placed on the fastest storage tier of the Nutanix cluster. Each file system associated with a share will include log devices either on initial creation or upon upgrade to Files 4.0. Use of the high speed log has shown to improve sustained synchronous random write performance. Synchronous writes are required when setting SMB shares to be continuously available (CA.) CPU Sched
This blog series provides the new feature updates that have been GA’d through the Nutanix Files 4.0 release.This is the second of four blogs to teach you about the new features in Nutanix Files 4.0.We will update the other blogs as they are posted:Blog 1: Smart Tiering Blog 3: Performance Improvements Blog 4 Smart DR EnhancementsNutanix Files has long been integrated into the core Nutanix AOS software. File server deployments, share creation, upgrades, node expansions, and other core services are delivered using the same interface. This integration has been key to keeping Nutanix Files simple and intuitive so that any administrator, whether they are an expert in Network Attached Storage (NAS) or not, can easily manage Files and their entire Nutanix Hyperconverged Infrastructure (HCI) environment.While being tightly coupled to AOS is beneficial, differing product release cycles, along with delivering a file server centric interface, has driven a project to partially decouple Nutanix Fil
This blog series provides the new feature updates that are GA through the Nutanix Files 4.0 release.This is the first of four blogs to teach you about the new features in Nutanix Files 4.0.We will update the other blogs as they are posted:Blog 2: New GUI Blog 3: Performance Improvements Blog 4 Smart DR EnhancementsAdministrators with large scale Network Attached Storage (NAS) environments frequently look for ways to improve storage efficiency, ease of administration, and lower cost. With Nutanix Files 4.0, we’ve added a native tiering framework, called “Smart Tier”, to help address these requirements. Smart Tier enables you to move cold or rarely used data to lower cost storage while maintaining a single namespace. Data can be tiered to any qualified S3 API compliant target, including on-premises solutions or in the public cloud.Smart Tier enables hybrid multicloud environments for unstructured data, whether it’s for long term archiving, cost saving or providing a virtually limitless
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