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modac1
May 20, 2008Aspirant
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...
btaroli
May 20, 2008Prodigy
modac wrote: Any ideas what I need to do in order to mount the share as an NFS datastore ?
It could just be an NFS compatibility issue between ReadyNAS and ESX (see my earlier post). Have you checked your vmkernel log file to see if it says anything about the NFS mount when it tries to hook up? You may wind up having to report this issue to VMware in order to learn more about what is happening and determine a workaround/fix. VMware has a custom device driver they use for NFS as a datastore, which enables shared use across all ESX servers in a cluster.
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