trying to add NFS to esx3.5 and getting this error:
error during the configuration of the host: Unable to create object, volume name not valid.
I am using Allegro NFS on windows pc
nfs is accessible by typing the
when adding NFS I have provided
server: 192.168.10.102
Folder: vm
Datastore Name: Datastore1
It is always possible the CIFS shared path is different from the NFS
shared path. Have you checked whether the path is "vm" or "Vm" or "VM"
or something totally different on the NFS side?
Can you NFS mount the "vm" share on 192.168.10.102 from other hosts?
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master.
How do I mount NFS using command line in ESX?
/usr/sbin/esxcfg-nas -a -o $nfsserver -s $nfsmount $mountname
Beware of he who would deny you access to information, for in his heart, he dreams himself your master.
Can you confirm that the VMKernel can ping the NFS server using vmkping 192.168.x.x.?
The VMkernel will need to be able to reach the NFS server before it can mount the export
Able to ping by name and ip address
PING lafile (192.168.10.120): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.10.120: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=6.383 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.120: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=1.861 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.120: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=13.596 ms
--- lafile ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 1.861/7.280/13.596 ms
PING 192.168.10.120 (192.168.10.120): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 192.168.10.120: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=2.475 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.120: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=2.299 ms
64 bytes from 192.168.10.120: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=18.858 ms
This is what i get when mounting
# /usr/sbin/esxcfg-nas -a -o lafile -s users export
Connecting to NAS volume: export
Unable to connect to NAS volume export: NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesystem: The mount request was denied by the NFS server. Check that the export exists and that the client is permitted to mount it
So are other systems able to mount that NFS share?
Does the NFS server have any exports restrictions which might be preventing a successful mount?
Use "/export/src" as the "Folder" name and "192.168.10.120" as the "Server" name, with "allegro-srs" as the Datastore name (or whatever) and mount read-only (useful for ISO) or not depending on use.
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the reason I amtrying to mount this is for vmts backup.
so it has to be r/w
woukd you please type the full command...
thanks
A quick question - what is the IP address of you NFS share? - in this post you are trying vmkping 192.168.10.120 while in the original question you have your NFS datastore with a 192.168.10.102 IUP address. Also make wure that the NFS server is NFS version 3 over TCP and that the ESX host has full root access to the NFS share - this is very important
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IP address 192.168.10.102. another one was a typo. as you can see in print screen i have attached the entire subnet has access to it.
Anyone accomplish this with Allegro? this is testing environemnt i am trying to setup so any other free NFS software welcome
Have you allowed the NFS client in the ESX firewall? It should open ports 111,2049 (UDP,TCP). By default this is not enabled.
NFS comes free with a free Linux distro like CentOS. 😃
Use the showmount command to check if you can see the export.
showmount -e NFSservername
works now.
enanbled ports in FW and used /export/src as folder
thank you all
works