Creating a storage virtual machine

To create a storage virtual machine (console)

1. Open the Amazon FSx console at https://console.amazonaws.cn/fsx/.

2. In the left navigation pane, choose Storage virtual machines.

3. Choose Create new storage virtual machine.

   The Create new storage virtual machine dialog box appears.

   

4. For File system, choose the file system to create the storage virtual machine on.

5. In the Storage virtual machine name field, provide a name for the storage virtual machine. You can use a maximum of 47 alphanumeric characters, plus the underscore (_) special character.

6. For SVM administrative password, you can optionally choose Specify a password and provide a password for this SVM's vsadmin user. You can use the vsadmin user to administer the SVM using the ONTAP CLI or REST API. For more information about the vsadmin user, see Managing SVMs with the ONTAP CLI.

   If you choose Don't specify a password (the default), you can still use the file system's fsxadmin user to manage your file system using the ONTAP CLI or REST API, but you can't use your SVM's vsadmin user to do the same.

7. For Active Directory, you have the following options:

   • If you are not joining your file system to an Active Directory (AD), choose Do not join an Active Directory.

   • If you are joining your SVM to a self-managed AD domain, choose Join an Active Directory, and provide the following details for your AD. For more information, see Prerequisites for joining an SVM to a self-managed Microsoft AD.

     • The NetBIOS name of the Active Directory computer object to create for your SVM. The NetBIOS name cannot exceed 15 characters. This is the name of this SVM in Active Directory.

     • The fully qualified domain name (FQDN) of your Active Directory. The FQDN cannot exceed 255 characters.

     • DNS server IP addresses – The IPv4 addresses of the DNS servers for your domain.

     • Service account username – The username of the service account in your existing Active Directory. Do not include a domain prefix or suffix. For EXAMPLE\ADMIN, use ADMIN.

     • Service account password – The password for the service account.

     • Confirm password – The password for the service account.

     • (Optional) Organizational Unit (OU) – The distinguished path name of the organizational unit to which you want to join your file system.

     • Delegated file system administrators group – The name of the group in your AD that can administer your file system.

       If you are using Amazon Managed Microsoft AD, you must specify a group such as Amazon Delegated FSx Administrators, Amazon Delegated Administrators, or a custom group with delegated permissions to the OU.

       If you are joining to a self-managed AD, use the name of the group in your AD. The default group is Domain Admins.

8. For SVM root volume security style, choose the security style for the SVM depending on the type of clients that access your data. Choose Unix (Linux) if you primarily access your data using Linux clients; choose NTFS if you primarily access your data using Windows clients. For more information, see Volume security style.

9. Choose Confirm to create the storage virtual machine.

• To create an FSx for ONTAP storage virtual machine (SVM), use the create-storage-virtual-machine CLI command (or the equivalent CreateStorageVirtualMachine API operation), as shown in the following example.

  aws fsx create-storage-virtual-machine \
      --file-system-id fs-0123456789abcdef0 \
      --name svm1 \
      --svm-admin-password password \
      --active-directory-configuration SelfManagedActiveDirectoryConfiguration='{DomainName="corp.example.com", \
  OrganizationalUnitDistinguishedName="OU=FileSystems,DC=corp,DC=example,DC=com",FileSystemAdministratorsGroup="FSxAdmins", \
  UserName="FSxService",Password="password", \
     DnsIps=["10.0.1.18"]}',NetBiosName=amznfsx12345