Adding OS to a new Virtual Machine

[Strunzo]

Hello,

I am trying to add another datastore which would simply be a mapped drive..so i am choosing "Network File System"...i specify the server by its ip...the shared folder is a windows mapped drive....the example is /vols/vol0/datastore-001 ...what do i enter to simply add the windows shared drive as this is where my iso's are and where i need to set the cd to boot from to start generating the image....

[java_cat33 · Accepted solution]

The method you are using is for adding a NFS datastore - you cannot use a standard Windows share as a datastore.

Instead - Power on the VM - then select the option to Connect CD/DVD (it's a menu option) - select the ISO on the Windows share and the VM should be able to access it - obviously you'll need to make sure you select the CDROM to boot from in the boot order.

If you want the iso on the datastore - you can upload the ISO using the datastore browser - but use a separate datastore for housing iso media, templates etc. If you choose to do this, then you can connect the iso within the VM settings.

Message was edited by: java_cat33 - Added line referring to uploading iso file to datastore etc.

[AntonVZhbankov]

Windows Share is called SMB, not NFS. That's completely different.

You can select in VM settings to use client cd, power VM on, and select from vSphere client to use ISO on windows share.

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[Strunzo]

Thanks Java.....I now have my ESX server up and running with several Vm's......I want to also be able to connect to the Datastore via a windows client...so I installed SFU so that I can access the NFS shares.....so at this point how do I map to the root of my Datastore?

[java_cat33]

Hi - refer to this vmware kb article