storage node architecture
can a nutanix storage node contain more secondary vm copies than what would fit into the existing capacity on the cluster nodes disk? and if yes, how does one bring the storage node down for maintenance?
i believe, and might double check this w support/sales engineers - in the situation you describe the vms would continue to functions/run (no outage of them executing/reading/writing to disk) however the cluster’s resiliency would stay critical (it doesn’t have enough pool capacity to write 2nd copies) until the storage heavy node is back up (i.e. couldn’t loose any additional disk/nodes/blocks).this is one of the reasons why storage-heavy nodes need to be added to a cluster in pairs, so storage un-balances during ha events don’t end up causing, “sufficient\_disk\_space\_check” warnings.note that the number of storage heavy nodes may need to be more if you’re using rf=3https://portal.nutanix.com/page/documents/kbs/details?targetid=ka0600000008gvycai
and use retention: <https://apps.nextcloud.com/apps/files_retention> Are these disks part of some sort of RAID setup? It doesn’t sound like it is, in which case striping the drives would, if one of the drives failed, result in the loss of all files on the drives…that’s a pretty risky strategy in any environment, whether development or production. You might want to read up on RAID configurations before deciding how you want to reconfigure your drives. it might be that the drives were formatted as 1tb, if you do a factory restore it might format the drives to the 2tb. you will lose your data though. i found the solution, if i select another option in the backup configuration settings, it is possible to enable the "split file" option.

thanks again for your help!

zeno [image] dueck456:

is there an easy way to detect when new code is flashed to the device so i can reinitialize the retained variables?

below is a link to a post by [@rickkas7](/u/rickkas7) about storing retained data in a struct.

[image] dueck456:

saving a know value to eeprom jumps to mind

there is … simple answer. no two nodes ever store the same data. instead storj uses erasure coding for which each piece is unique. so piece id’s are unique across the network.

maybe if a piece is lost and then subsequently rebuilt in a repair action it ends up having the same name on the new node. it would de… highly unlikely.
unless there is a specific bios update that adds this functionality, it will not work.

and there does not appear to be:
https://www.asus.com/motherboards/m5a88v\_evo/helpdesk\_bios/

just put in a sata iii ssd, 2.5" format. that will work, and on a board that old, you'll not see any actual performance difference vs an nvme drive. you might be able to use synchronize. if you have more than 2 tables, you will need to use it multiple times. it turned out there was a problem with storage within my server. it wasn’t a problem with cloudflare after all. Hello Nanda, Basically you need to include the network drivers and the storage drivers.

+ You can find the drivers from Manufacturer site where you can filter the Category and download –

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