Force Removal of Nutanix Files Cluster

Last week i set up a Nutanix File cluster for a customer. During stageing our communications team gave me the wrong subnet i information, so we had to redeploy the files cluster. But we where not able to delete the cluster since it had lost the connection with Windows AD. So we where only meet by a error message saying that Nutanix was unable to delete the file-server.

In the GUI we tried to remove the connection to Active Directory, but since our communications department already removed the interface from the network infrastrcuture.

First, delete protection domains that protects the file-server you want to delete.

So what to do, use the CLI.

Fist, run this command:

ncli file-server list

Now you'll get a list with your file servers.

Take note of the UUID of the file-server that you want to delete.

Then run this command:

ncli file-server rm uuid=<uuid> force=true

Your file-server should now be deleted.

Thanks for reading.