ReadyNAS NV+ and VMWARE ESX NFS Share

I'm having the same problem and I'm a newbie at this VM stuff and I don't know a thing about Linux.

Gecko,

I would love for you to do a step by step instructions on how someone with NO experience can accomplish this. Snapshots of the screen would be even better. More and more people are going to use VMware and would like to use their ReadyNas as a storage. Maybe after a step by step instructions, we can tell the forum admins to pin it at the top of the forum.

Phil

Hi Phill,

"I would love for you to do a step by step instructions on how someone with NO experience can accomplish this."

I just bought a new server (HP proliant GL310G5 Xeon QC@2.13 Ghz ~8 GB) to run ESXi as well in combi with a nv+ as storage, here's a step by step which worked for me:

First, make sure you have NFS enabled:


Next create a share which will act as your NFS share: (i'm using the folder "esx-data")


Check the share permissions:


Now we created a point for the ESX server to mount to, time to dive into ESX! 8)
Start the "add storage" wizard


fill out the correct details:



and we have a go! :)



Hope this helps!

That's awsome!!!! Thanks!!! I got it up and running.

This problem happened to me from what appeared to be out-of-the-blue. One addition to sponder's post, be sure Jumbo Frames is disabled.

My ReadyNas NV+ was running fine for months, then all of the sudden an error occurred breaking the NFS mount. I think it's because I enabled Jumbo Frames (months ago), but never rebooted the device. We had some heavy rain and th power might have gone out, causing a reboot.

HTH

I just changed the hostname of the ESXi server, and got a different ip from the DHCP server, since then the mounting fails. (unable to connect to NFS server)
I checked and configured new IP address for the permissions, and i'm pretty sure NFS is up and running:
saikonas:/etc# ps -A |grep rpc
1008 ? 00:00:00 rpc.rquotad
1016 ? 00:00:00 rpc.statd
1028 ? 00:00:00 rpciod/0
1029 ? 00:00:04 rpc.mountd
saikonas:/etc# ps -A |grep nfsd
1020 ? 00:00:00 nfsd4
1021 ? 00:00:00 nfsd
1022 ? 00:00:00 nfsd
1023 ? 00:00:00 nfsd
1024 ? 00:00:00 nfsd
1025 ? 00:00:00 nfsd

According to Frontview everything should be good.
Also, i can vmkping the nas with no problems.
Rebooted both the server as the NV+, no luck

Any suggestions for further troubleshooting would be great!

thanks sponder your guide really helped me set this up. Not sure about your problem though :(

no problem :)
btw i traced my own problem down to a dns error, all is good now :wink:

Sorry to bump this but couldn't find an answer elsewhere. I currently have a 2TB ReadyNAS setup as follows

ReadyNAS Network 1: 10.10.1.100 Network 2: 10.10.1.101

I have 2 ESX 3.5 machines and nic1 having an ip in the same subnet 10.10.1.x all netmasks are 255.255.255.0.

So server 1 is DIRECTLY linked to 10.10.1.100 ethernet on the readynas over gigabit (Linked fine)

Server 2 is DIRECTLY linked to 10.10.1.101

Server 2 has problems and wont link almost like the network don't exist although they are setup exactly the same.

So my question is, Why cant they both talk to the same /VMShare mount or am I doing this wrong/setup wrong. I figured i would do it like this so there is full GE available for NFS traffic on each host machine.

"So my question is, Why cant they both talk to the same /VMShare mount or am I doing this wrong/setup wrong"
Good news, there's no reason this wouldn't work, but mind you: ESX is a bit trickier than a simple windows machine to setup, especially the networking part. You should be very familiar with TCP/IP and networking in general before attempting to setup a ESX machine. google is your friend!! :wink:

not sure i'm following you though, can you first clear things up a bit?

"So server 1 is DIRECTLY linked to 10.10.1.100 ethernet on the readynas over gigabit (Linked fine)" uhh? :?
...
"ReadyNAS Network 1: 10.10.1.100 Network 2: 10.10.1.101"
Your nv+ only has one NIC, what do you mean by network 2?
...
1. i presume you have cable running from your switch to the NAS? is this correct?
2. i presume you have connected both the ESXi servers to this switch as well?
3. can you give us the followin info:
device - IP - subnet - hostname
--------------------------------------------------
- NAS: - 10.10.1.? - /24(=255.255.255.0) - NASBOX01
- ESXi 1 - 10.10.1.? - /24 ESXserver01
- ESXi 2 - 10.10.1.? - /24 ESXserver02

Make sure that the nas has a correct IP setup.
Once you can connect to the NAS from a simple windows machine, setup the NFS folder as in the screenshots i made.
Next step is to provide both ESX machines with a unique(!!!) IP address.
Once you can VMKping your NAS from both ESX machine's you're good to go, and setup the NFS mount points on those servers.

good luck!

Sorry for my lack of explaining things the correct way was up late ;) This is not NV it's actually 1100 series with 2 gigabit nics sorry if I'm even in the wrong section, again it was late/early am for me.


device - IP - subnet - hostname
--------------------------------------------------
- NAS: - 10.10.1.100 - /24(=255.255.255.0) - NASBOX1 - NIC 1
- NAS: - 10.10.1.101 - /24(=255.255.255.0) - NASBOX1 - NIC 2

- ESX 3.5 - 10.10.1.102 - /24 ESXserver10 ---- Cable to 10.10.1.100
- ESX 3.5 - 10.10.1.105 - /24 ESXserver11 ---- Cable to 10.10.1.101

IT's funny since I can ping both ips from ESX HOST 11 which should only be able to ping the 101 ip but I can ping the 100 as well.

Then from ESX HOST 10 I cant ping either.

Both are setup with same cables NAS NIC - GIG NIC on HOST, NICs all work and so fourth.