Storage Archives - Jeroen Tielen

Reserve Rebuild Capacity – Turn it On or Off?

Jeroen — Wed, 31 Dec 2025 14:59:43 +0000

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…

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Adding extra disk to Nutanix Community Edition

Jeroen — Mon, 18 Nov 2024 11:06:17 +0000

In this post I will describe how-to add an extra data disk to a single node Nutanix Community Edition (CE) cluster. Before we start I want to point out that more then 4 disks is not within the requirements for CE. See: https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/details?targetId=Nutanix-Community-Edition-Getting-Started-v2_1:top-sysreqs-ce-r.html (Boot drive is not counted within those…

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Smart Tiering Nutanix Files to Azure Cool Blob Storage

Jeroen — Thu, 11 Apr 2024 06:51:30 +0000

This blog post outlines the process to configure an Azure Storage Account with cold blob storage integrated with Nutanix Files for smart tiering. It describes how to offload data from the Nutanix cluster, thus freeing up resources, while clarifying that Nutanix Files licenses remain in use.

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Citrix ShareFile User Migration Script

Jeroen — Fri, 15 Feb 2019 14:40:44 +0000

Here is a nice PowerShell script I’ve created to migrate user from a specific Storage Zone to another Storage Zone. You can batch migrate users so it will only do the amount specified. Run the script and it will ask for ShareFile credentials. Those will be saved in a file…

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Create local ISO Storage in XenServer from remaining space on boot Disk

Jeroen — Tue, 06 Dec 2011 15:19:51 +0000

When installing a XenServer there is a question in the setup wizard which asks where to place the virtual machine files. You can choose your storage and even the remaining space on the boot disk. But where to place to ISO files then? You have to create a NFS share…

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Prevent SCCM from installing files on a specific drive

Jeroen — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 11:56:47 +0000

By default, the Configuration Manager 2007 site server role component installation files are installed on the first available NTFS formatted disk drive with the most available free disk space. However, some files are not installed in the default installation folder. For example, files are installed in the following folders: The…

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