An administrator may wish to log in to FSVM, for example, to perform network troubleshooting tasks.

This can be achieved by establishing command line access to one of the CVMs on the cluster first and then logging in to FSVM. Please see step-by-step example below.

Log in to CVM. Optionally, verify IP address configured on FSVM:

$ ssh nutanix@10.123.124.125
Nutanix Controller VM
nutanix@10.123.124.125's password: 
Last login: Mon Oct 14 23:20:52 2019 from 10.245.246.237
nutanix@NTNX-14SM71070032-A-CVM:10.123.124.125:~$ ncli fs ls
    Uuid                      : db890ac6-abcd-12ef-34ab-c6240654b029
    Name                      : EXAMPLE-FS
    Version                   : 3.5.2
    Container ID              : 0005922b-abcd-12ef-34ab-002590c84bb8::81306
    Container Uuid            : 714c4d88-abcd-12ef-34ab-508b29c4a6d8
    Virtual IP address        : 10.124.245.125
    [...]

From CVM log in to FSVM:

nutanix@NTNX-14SM71070032-A-CVM:10.123.124.125:~$ ssh nutanix@10.124.245.125
FIPS mode initialized
Nutanix File-Server VM
Last login: Wed Oct  9 22:29:40 2019 from 10.123.124.125
nutanix@NTNX-10-123-245-124-A-FSVM:~$ 

Note that you are automatically re-directed to the owner of FS cluster Virtual IP.

Default credentials are listed in KB-1661. FSVM default credentials match as Nutanix Controller VM SSH client.