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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...
modac wrote: Here is some additional information -
I've opened the NFS Client on the ESX firewall
I've edited the \etc\exports with
/VMStore 10.10.10.0/24(rw,no_root_squash,sync)
from the ESX Console I type
exportfs -r
then
mount -t nfs 10.10.10.9:/VMStore /mntpoint
it replies with
mount: RPC: Timed out
Any ideas ?
Well, I'm not sure you have to fool with the firewall in order to configure NFS. I found references to two overviews of the process (both for NAS, one for Netapp) and they seem to suggest that the important factors are:
- You must have the NFS device on the same subnet as the VMKernel interface on each ESX host
- You must give rw and root perms on the NFS export
- You may have to force the NFS version, but that's usu done on the client side so I think such references had to do with Linux-based mounts and not those done via the vmkernel.
The reference notes I found are:
NFS is a gray area for me with ESX because we mostly use Fibrechannel. I might, though, suggest you take a peek at the VMware Communities, which is a kickass customer forum.
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