Nutanix Acropolis OS supports several storage protocols like NFS, SMB3, iSCSI due to broad hypervisor support (Nutanix AHV, VMware vSphere, Citrix XenServer, Microsoft Hyper-V 2012R2). For migration purposes you can mount Acropolis container onto external system.
As an example, below is a quick guide on how to mount Nutanix Acropolis container on ESXi server.
NOTE: Mounting Nutanix Acropolis container to external system is supported only for migration purposes. It is not supported for PRODUCTION use.
- Add IP address of ESXi host to Nutanix container white-list in format XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX/YYY.YYY.YYY.YYY – where X is for IP address and Y is for subnet (use 32 bit subnet)
- Log in to Prism and navigate to Storage –> Container –> Mark “migration container” and click Update –>Advance settings –> scroll down to Whitelist -section
Container whitelist
- Log in to Prism and navigate to Storage –> Container –> Mark “migration container” and click Update –>Advance settings –> scroll down to Whitelist -section
- In vSphere client, click on ESXi host and add new NFS storage
- In Server – provide CVM IP address
- in Folder – /<AHV container name>
NOTE: it is case sensitive - In datastore name – datastore name visible in vSphere inventory
- That’s it. Now you should see new datastore in ESXi.
