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ste-flextronics
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‎09-14-2009 05:11 AM

Unable to mount a cifs share

Hello guys !

I m wondering why I can t mount an samba share on my ESX4i ?

The same share is mounted on a ESX 2.5i, but on 4.i I have mounting //IP/share on /tmp/backup/ failed: No such device message

I can ping the server IP. Nothing related in /var/log/messages

The command typed is mount //IP/share /tmp/backup -t cifs (or smbfs) -o username=user,password=pass

Thx

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AndreTheGiant
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‎09-14-2009 05:35 AM

ESX 2.5i does not exist Smiley Happy

In full ESX version you have also the samba client package that is need to mount a Windows share.

In ESXi this part is not present.

Andre

Andrew | http://about.me/amauro | http://vinfrastructure.it/ | @Andrea_Mauro
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ste-flextronics
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‎09-14-2009 05:37 AM

Andre thx for this answer !

So I should use NFS to backup my VM outside the server ?

Raphael

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AndreTheGiant
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‎09-14-2009 05:42 AM

NFS could be a simple solution if you have a NAS that support NFS v3 over TCP.

Or you can use some free backup solutions (like GhettoVCB) or maybe also some commercial product (like Veeam, Vizioncore, ...)

Andre

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ste-flextronics
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‎09-14-2009 05:57 AM

I plan to use GhettoVCB, the NFS share would be used to store the VM outside the ESX4i datastore. I make some test with iscsi target too. The main idea is again to backup VM outside the server for recovery in case of RAID failure.

Raphael.

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