Create the container, set its Replication Factor, configure compression/deduplication settings, and then it‘s ready for VM disk placement.

Prism Element is the management interface for individual Nutanix clusters, providing local cluster administration and monitoring.

The SSD tier is used for hot data and provides the highest performance in standard hybrid clusters with mixed SSD/HDD storage.

Linked clones reference a single base template, storing only delta changes, significantly reducing storage capacity requirements.

Properly shut down all VMs first, stop cluster services gracefully, power off hosts in correct order, then perform maintenance.

Power off the VM (unless hot-extend is supported), select the virtual disk, increase its size, and power the VM back on.

LCM requires vCenter Server to be registered with Prism Element to coordinate ESXi host updates and manage the update process.

The Storage Dashboard in Prism Element displays IOPS metrics for each storage container, helping identify high-activity containers.

Nutanix Objects is a scale-out object storage solution that provides S3-compatible API for unstructured data storage.

When a container reaches its capacity limit, new write operations to that container will fail, requiring capacity increase or data cleanup.

Uhura manages internal cluster communications, handling service discovery and message routing between cluster components.

Redirect-on-write snapshots allow clones to share base data with only delta changes stored, providing space-efficient cloning.