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Rubrik : Add OpenIO as an archival target

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Background You have a Rubrik cluster which is becoming full and you are thinking at started archiving to off-load the appliance. There are few ways to archive from Rubrik. Once of them is by using object store. Object store became popular with Amazon S3. There are expansive solutions that provides out of the box object store and there is Open Source.

Nutanix : CVMs are running out of space (sic!)

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Background Trying to upgrade to the latest AOS, NCC, Hypervisor .... but you are running out of space on your cluster and pre-checks are failing ? There is a fix !

Nutanix : Remove Prism Central registration

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Background You have removed your Prism Central VM and your cluster still shows a registered but disconnected status. You would like to unregister the cluster with a "force" status and start again with a new Prism Central deployment. Yes, this is possible, this is documented but for some reason it does not work. There is a KB on the Nutanix portal ( https://portal.nutanix.com/#/page/kbs/details?targetId=kA00e000000XeZjCAK ) but it does not work/apply to your case. I miss read it and here is the solution !