Create a File Share

The Share/Export page lets you create distributed or standard file shares. A distributed share or home share is a repository where the personal files of a user reside, whereas the standard share or general-purpose share is a repository shared by the group. A distributed share is distributed at the top-level directories whereas the standard share is on a single file server VM (FSVM). This section provides information about how to create a file share to perform the UNC/NFS backup for Nutanix Files.

Follow these steps:

1. Log into Nutanix Prism web portal.
2. Navigate to File Server on the main menu, and then click Share/Export on the File Server dashboard.
3. The Create a share/export window appears displaying the Basics tab.
3. On the Basics tab, do the following, and then click Next:
• Name: Enter a name for the share.
• Note: The naming conventions for the share name are as follows:
• Each name must be unique.
• Names are not case-sensitive.
• Files allow unicode characters.
• Maximum name length is 80 characters.
• A blank space or space character cannot appear as the first or last character in the name.
• Names that end with the $ are hidden shares.
• Description (Optional): Enter a description for the share if required.
• File Server: From the drop-down list, select a file server in which the share resides.
• Share Path (Optional): Provide the file path to the share.
• Max Size (Optional): Enter the maximum share size. By default, the size is in GiB.
• Select Protocol: Select SMB as a protocol.
• Note: To enable the multiprotocol feature, select the Enable multiprotocol access for NFS check box.
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4. On the Settings tab, retain defaults or make changes as needed, and then click Next.
5. Use “Distributed” share type instead of “Standard”
6. Lets you create a distributed share.
7. Note: By default, the shares on single-FSVM deployments are standard.
8. Enable Self Service Restore
9. Lets you restore files from previous snapshots.
10. Enable File System Compression
11. Lets you save space and reduce data on the share through in-line compression of written data.
12. Note: Make sure to disable compression at the container level. If you enabled the compression, the Enable File System Compression option gets disabled.
13. Enable Access Based Enumeration (ABE)
14. Lets you enable Access-Based Enumeration (ABE).
15. Blocked File Types
16. Lets you specify the blocked file types.
17. Enter a comma-separated list of file types that you want to block from the share.
18. Encrypt SMB3 Messages
19. Lets you enable message encryption between the file server and the client.
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5. On the Summary page, verify the details, and then click Create.
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7. Note: To make changes to the settings of the previous pages, click Back.
8. The file share is created successfully.
9. Note: Next, copy the mount path and then map the newly created share in the local UDP. For more information, see Step 6 (a1) of Specify the Source.