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tiCrypt 2.18.1

NFS Mounts

Prerequisites

User Role:

Admin, Super-admin

Permission Requirements

None. The NFS Mounts table, and every action in it, is available to Admins and Super-admins. No permission grants access to it.

An NFS mount is a record of an NFS export on the backend server that VM hardware setups can mount into their VMs. Each record holds a name, the export path, and the drive slot it uses on Windows VMs. An NFS mount is not a drive: it points to an existing export on the backend server and reaches VMs through the hardware setups that list it, not through a VM configuration. You add it to a hardware setup under NFS Drives; see Connect NFS Drives to a VM Hardware Setup.

Access the NFS Mounts in Management​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.

The table lists each NFS mount's Name, Export Path, and Slot.

View Basic Information of an NFS Mount​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.
  4. Select the NFS mount to view basic information.
  5. Click the View button in the top right panel, or click the NFS mount's name.
  6. In the left panel, under the Basic info card, view the Path, Slot, Alias ("Not set" when empty), Mount path ("Not set" when empty), and ID.
  7. Under Mounted by N hardware setups, view the hardware setups that mount the NFS mount. Click one to open it.

Create a New NFS Mount​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.
  4. Click the Create new NFS drive button in the top right panel.
  5. In the Create new NFS drive pop-up, enter the Name, Path, and Slot.
  6. Click Create.

The following table describes the fields of the Create new NFS drive dialog.

FieldDescription
NameRequired, up to 80 characters, and unique among NFS mounts. May not contain slashes, backslashes, pipes, quotation marks, colons, asterisks, question marks, angle brackets, or braces.
PathRequired, up to 256 characters. The full path where the NFS is located on the backend server, for example /nfs/exports/demo. It must be an absolute, slash-separated path.
SlotThe drive letter and slot number the NFS mount uses on Windows VMs, from E:/2 to Y:/22.
Result: The NFS mount appears in the NFS Mounts table and can be added to hardware setups.

Edit an Existing NFS Mount​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.
  4. Select the NFS mount to edit.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, edit the NFS mount name, path, and slot.
  7. Click Update.
note

If you click Update without changing anything, the message "No changes made" appears and the pop-up stays open.

Change the NFS Mount Path​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.
  4. Select the NFS mount to change its path.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, under the Path subsection, enter a new path.
  7. Click Update.

Change the Slot Location When an NFS Mount is Attached to Windows VMs​

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.
  4. Select the NFS mount to change its slot.
  5. Click the Edit button in the top right panel.
  6. In the pop-up, under the Slot subsection, select the new slot.
  7. Click Update.

Delete Existing NFS Mount(s)​

bulk-action

  1. Go to the Management icon in the top left taskbar.
  2. Navigate to the Virtual Machines section.
  3. Click the NFS Mounts in the left panel.
  4. Select the NFS mount(s) to delete.
  5. Click the Delete button in the top right panel.
  6. In the prompt, click Delete followed by the NFS mount name, or by the number of NFS mounts.
caution

Deleting an NFS drive is permanent.