Supported clients
FSx for ONTAP file systems support accessing data from a wide variety of compute instances and operating systems. It does this by supporting access using the Network File System (NFS) protocol (v3, v4.0, v4.1 and v4.2), all versions of the Server Message Block (SMB) protocol (including 2.0, 3.0, and 3.1.1), and the Internet Small Computer Systems Interface (iSCSI) protocol.
Important
Amazon FSx doesn't support accessing file systems from the public internet. Amazon FSx automatically detaches any Elastic IP address which is a public IP address reachable from the Internet, that gets attached to a file system's elastic network interface.
The following AWS compute instances are supported for use with FSx for ONTAP:
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Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (Amazon EC2) instances running Linux with NFS or SMB support, Microsoft Windows, and MacOS. For more information, see Mounting volumes.
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Amazon Elastic Container Service (Amazon ECS) Docker containers on Amazon EC2 Windows and Linux instances. For more information, see Using Amazon Elastic Container Service with FSx for ONTAP.
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Amazon Elastic Kubernetes Service – To learn more, see Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP CSI driver in the Amazon EKS User Guide.
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Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS (ROSA) – To learn more, see What is Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS? in the Red Hat OpenShift Service on AWS User Guide.
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Amazon WorkSpaces instances. For more information, see Using Amazon WorkSpaces with FSx for ONTAP.
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Amazon AppStream 2.0 instances.
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AWS Lambda – For more information, see the AWS blog post Enabling SMB access for server-less workloads with Amazon FSx
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Virtual machines (VMs) running in VMware Cloud on AWS environments. For more information, see Configure Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP as External Storage
and VMware Cloud on AWS with Amazon FSx for NetApp ONTAP Deployment Guide .
Once mounted, FSx for ONTAP file systems appear as a local directory or drive letter over NFS and SMB, providing fully managed, shared network file storage that can be simultaneously accessed by up to thousands of clients. iSCSI LUNS are accessible as block devices when mounted over iSCSI.
