Cannot map NFS drive esx 3.5

wfletcher2 · ‎04-08-2008

I had an esx 3.5 server which unfortunately died, hardware failure. I rebuilt the server and went to connect to the NFS share through the VC gui on the new machine to no avail. I then tried the esxcfg command line which did map the drive, but nothing on it can be seen. The NFS share is on a 2k3 machine (not R2) with Services for Unix installed.

I cannot delete or rename anything on the NFS share through windows. I can view the file conrtents though.

I really need to access the drive and the machines on it. I now receive the error "The specified key, name identifier already exists", when I try to remap it through the GUI. I can see the volume name in winscp, but nothing under it.

Any ideas on how I can get my NFS share back up and running with the machines already build on it?

Thanx up front.

Texiwill · ‎04-08-2008

Hello,

Verify your SFU configuration first: http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Setting_up_Windows_Services_For_UNIX_%28SFU%29_NFS

Then unmount (Remove) the NFS Datastore, then remount (Add) the NFS datastore.

Best regards,

Edward L. Haletky

VMware Communities User Moderator

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wfletcher2 · ‎04-08-2008

Tried that last night. I could never get the map to come up. Had to do it through the Dos command line. Nothing there has changed. Just rechecked and thru the command line and the share is still there and mapped to root.

What I did find using the esxcfg-nas -l was

# esxcfg-nas -l

\Error performing operation: Unable to create object, volume Name not valid

# esxcfg-nas -d f3842be6-65269d04

Error performing operation: Unknown filesystem, cannot remove

old name of the nfs share was 0acf02ae-48dc9c31

esxcfg isn't letting me rename it

# esxcfg-nas -s 0acf02ae-48dc9c31

esxcfg-nas Set the name of the NAS share on the remote system.

-d|--delete Unmount and delete a filesystem.

-l|--list List the currently mounted NAS file systems.

-r|--restore Restore all NAS mounts from the configuration file.

(FOR INTERNAL USE ONLY).

-h|--help Show this message.

# esxcfg-nas -s f3842be6-65269d04