Acropolis Block Services

Acropolis Block Services can support use cases including but not limited to:

• iSCSI for Microsoft Exchange Server. ABS enables Microsoft Exchange Server environments to use iSCSI as the primary storage protocol.
• Shared storage for Windows Server Failover Clustering (WSFC). ABS supports SCSI-3 persistent reservations for shared storage-based Windows clusters, commonly used with Microsoft SQL Server and clustered file servers.
• Bare-metal environments. ABS enables existing server hardware separate from a Nutanix cluster to consume the Acropolis Distributed Storage Fabric (DSF) resources. Workloads not targeted for virtualization can also use the DSF.

Acropolis File Services

• Enable you to share files among user work stations or VMs in a centralized protected location to help eliminate the requirement for a third-party file server.
• Acropolis File Services uses a scale-out architecture that provides Server Message Block (SMB) file shares to Windows clients for home directory and user profiles. Acropolis File Services consist of three or more file server VMs (FSVM). There is one file server maximum per cluster image. A set of file server VMs is also known as a Acropolis File Services cluster. Multiple file server clusters can be created on a Nutanix cluster.