File server managers and systems for managing virtualized file servers

At least one non-transitory computer readable media encoded with instructions for a system to perform actions comprising:

• receive, at a file server manager, a registration for a distributed file server of a plurality of virtual file servers, the distributed file server hosted in a virtualization environment and including a plurality of file server virtual machines configured to access a file system, the file server manager being separate from and having access to the plurality of virtual file servers;
• synchronize, via the file server manager, metadata with the distributed file server, the metadata including information regarding the file system;
• receive, at the file server manager and via an application programming interface (API) call, a platform-agnostic management request;
• determine, by the file server manager, that the management request is for the distributed file server of the plurality of virtual file servers based at least on a type of the management request, wherein the type of each management request comprises a platform-specific request, a user-specific request, a service-specific request, or any combination of each type of management request;
• and
• redirect, by the file server manager, the management request to the distributed file server by formatting the management request to be specific to the virtualization environment of the determined distributed file server based on the metadata.

A method comprising:

• registering multiple virtualized distributed file servers with a file server manager, the file server manager being separate from and having access to the multiple virtualized distributed file servers, wherein a first virtualized distributed file server of the multiple virtualized distributed file servers is hosted on a virtualization environment including a plurality of file server virtual machines configured to access a file system;
• synchronizing, by the file server manager, metadata of the virtualized distributed file servers to a database of the file server manager, the metadata of the first virtualized distributed file server including information regarding the file system;
• receiving, via an application programming interface (API) call, a platform-agnostic management request at the file server manager;
• determining, by the file server manager, that the management request if for the first virtualized distributed file server of the multiple virtualized distributed file servers based at least on a type of the management request, wherein the type of each management request comprises a platform-specific request, a user-specific request, a service-specific request, or any combination of each type of management request;
• formatting, based on the metadata, the management request for the first virtualized distributed file server in accordance with the virtualized environment in which the first virtualized distributed file server is implemented;
• and
• directing, by the file server manager, the management request to the first virtualized distributed file server.