The Nutanix product for file servers, built on FSVMs. Nutanix Move can migrate external SMB or NFS file servers onto it.
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Terms in this definition
- Nutanix Move
Shifts files and VMs between hypervisors, say Hyper-V or ESXi over to AHV, keeping downtime low.
- Migrate
Part of Adopt in the Cloud Adoption Framework: the guidance for lifting workloads you already run, on-premises or in another cloud, across to Azure. It assumes you have prepared a migration adoption plan and built a landing zone. Not to be mixed up with the Azure Migrate service.
- External
API Management virtual network mode in which the gateway stays public but can call private back ends inside the VNet.
- SMB
Protocol for Windows file shares, used by Azure Files and supporting authentication based on identity.
- NFS
Network File System, a file-sharing protocol from the Unix world, available on Azure Files, Azure NetApp Files and Blob Storage (as NFSv3).
Related terms
- FSVM
Nutanix Files file servers run on these VMs. Hypervisor upgrades can stall at maintenance mode with a timeout unless their anti-affinity rules are switched off first.
- iSCSI Data Services IP
Nutanix Files relies on this address, and Nutanix Volumes clients discover storage through it. It belongs to the cluster, sits on one CVM at a time and shifts elsewhere when that leader fails.