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ReadyNAS NV+ and VMWARE ESX NFS Share
I'm trying to create a NFS DataStore on my ReadyNAS NV+ with ESX 3.5 I'm using RAIDiator 4.01c1-p2 and have created an NFS Share (VMStore) with default access of Read/Write with Root Privilege-enab...
ewok wrote: Do you have another machine (real, not VMWare) that you can use to try and mount that NFS share?
That belies a misunderstanding of what he's talking about. ESX hosts (2.5, 3.0, or 3.5) are RHEL4 builds. The "service console" is the actual Linux installation inside which the ESX vmkernel runs as a kernel module. Of course, Vmware has a good deal of custom code going on, especially as it relates to shared repositories for VM hosts.
I wonder if the OP has tried to manually use "mount" from the service console, versus configuring the volume as a datastore within VirtualCenter. I have tested the root option from Mac OS X, Solaris, and Fedora (at home) and it seems to do exactly what one would expect.
The basic mount command from the service console should behave exactly as any other RHEL installation, so I'm very curious whether you find it works that way but not as a datastore. If it is just the latter that is an issue, then this would be the result of some incompatibility between ESX (not the service console itself) and ReadyNAS.
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