Solved: Does ESXi support SMBv3 as VM-Datastore ?

Chakoe1 · ‎10-26-2018

Hi all,

simple Question:

does ESXi support Datastores via SMBv3 ? And what would be the prerequisites ?

Thx in advance.....

chakoe

sk84 · ‎10-26-2018

For a datastore where you can run VMs you need either a block device (via FC, iSCSI or local) or a network file system like NFS.

ESXi can mount CIFS shares, but it will not show up in the datastore overview and you can't use it as a VM location.

--- Regards, Sebastian VCP6.5-DCV // VCP7-CMA // vSAN 2017 Specialist Please mark this answer as 'helpful' or 'correct' if you think your question has been answered correctly.

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sk84 · ‎10-26-2018

For a datastore where you can run VMs you need either a block device (via FC, iSCSI or local) or a network file system like NFS.

ESXi can mount CIFS shares, but it will not show up in the datastore overview and you can't use it as a VM location.

--- Regards, Sebastian VCP6.5-DCV // VCP7-CMA // vSAN 2017 Specialist Please mark this answer as 'helpful' or 'correct' if you think your question has been answered correctly.

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Does ESXi support SMBv3 as VM-Datastore ?