Reserve Rebuild Capacity – Turn it On or Off?

When deploying a Nutanix cluster and looking into all configuration settings you have probably seen the “Reserve Rebuild Capacity” option. In this blogpost I will explain what it is and how it works. You can find this option in Prism Element –> Settings –> Rebuild Capacity Reservation. The default setting…

Nutanix Erasure Coding Example

Erasure Coding in a 4-node Nutanix cluster provided a 25% data reduction in the author’s lab by efficiently shrinking ‘write-cold’ data using storage optimization. Testing with virtual machines.

Single Node Cluster with Replication Factor 2

The post describes setting up Replication Factor 2 on a single-node cluster running Community Edition. After installing CE on a VM with specific disk configurations, a new cluster is created with the desired redundancy factor. The post concludes with a positive impression of the results in Prism Element.

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