environment
for my home (test) environment i use a esx4i (installable) setup that connects to a nfs share on a synology DS209 NAS.
symptoms
on local storage everything works as expected. i can mount the nfs datatstore, use the datastore browser, create, modify and delete folders. i can create virtual machines but i cannot format virtual drives
installing windows (I tested 7-64bit or 2008 - x86) i get the next error:
Windows could not format a partition on disk 0. The error occured while preparing the partition selected for installation. Error code: 0x80070057
installing windows on a local datastore works, but using a second harddisk on the NFS datastore fails
when i add a second SCSI or IDE drive on the NFS datastore, formatting it as ntfs or fat32 failes at 99%, showing the error "The format did not complete succesfully.
formatting as FAT 16 works and I can add files on this virtual disk.
a copied ntfs formatted virtual disk on nfs seems accessible (tested read and write small files)
I tried to install ubuntu server (using the next-next-next-finish option). it fails after copying and extracting the files to disk. The disk on the datastore is growed to about 550 MB.
I suspect one of the nfs settings (all default) might be wrong... any ideas?
note: the asus mainboard does not support my 2 2GB kingston memory modules, it reports these as 3 GB; 2 Gb on each single module, 5 GB when 2 2 GB and 2 1 GB modules are added. i will do some memory testing in the meantime.
