Adding NFS Storage

[BDorroh]

I'm testing an NFS storage implementation and ran into a problem. My NAS is just an old DL380 with some 146GB drives and I'm running FreeNAS.

So the storage setup went ok, but when I try to add the storage in ESX it thinks about it for a minute, then pops back the error: Error during the configuration of the host: NFS Error: Unable to Mount Filesystem: Unable to connect to NFS server." I noticed that there's no place to pass and ID or password in the ESX configuration portion and I'm thinking that may be the problem. FreeNAS kind of acts like it wants to setup users and groups for access, but I don't see how I can share it to "anyone." Does anyone have any tips for setting this up correctly?

[kjb007]

Since you're using hardware RAID, the system will not know of it. Use 1 here.

-KjB

[BDorroh]

When I choose 1 and click SAVE, the next screen shows the Status as "configuring." When I click on Apply Changes, the Status changes to "Error - Retry"

[kjb007]

Go to the 'Mount Point' Tools tab, select unmount

Then go back to mount point, and select 1 for UFS, and click add..

Otherwise, try option 2.

[kjb007]

Also, try this, go back to the shell, and type df -h

[kjb007]

I just re-created the config using UFS underneath. Let me know if you're still having trouble.

-KjB

[Ben_Rayner]

I installed FreeNAS and too struggled with this. I then followed kjb007's word doc (above) to the letter and I was able to create a NFS datastore in ESX 3.5

[Schorschi]

You could try Unix for Windows NFS as a test, to validate. Would narrow down issue specific to FreeNFS or ESX config issue.

[Ben_Rayner]

Update - whilst I was able to create a datastore, I was unable to create a VM on it. Now looking at other options

[brennerd]

Hi,

i get the the same result. Datastore existing in VM 3.5 , i can browse, make Dir´s and copy files from VC but no VM store on it.

Anybody an other Idea what (free) storage to use for testing extended Funktions of VM like DRS HA and VMotion ?

Thanks so far

[rxjoseph]

Thanks for the document, it was really useful. I had the same problem and this document helped me