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martinwillb
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NAS Storage - Linksys NSS4000

I'm using a Linksys NSS4000 temp. for external storage. It comunicates well with my ESX server when I have it in "PUBLIC" share mode. When I take it off of "PUBLIC" share mode, I can't see the datastores. I don't want to use the PUBLIC mode. Why can't I see the datastores. Does the ESX server need to be in our Domain.

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Peto
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NFS needs the following settings

RW access to the NFS volume

no_root_squash - By default, the root user is given the least amount of access to an NFS volume. This option tuns off this behavior because the VMKernal needs to access the NFS volume using the root user

sync - All file writes must be committed to disk before the write request buy the client is actually completed.

If you make these changes to the NFS volume you shouldn't have an issue. Also note that it is best practice to have the NFS store on its own network. That way you will not have any issues with security and data access with not to contend with user IO. If you can only VLAN it then thats better than nothing.

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Texiwill
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Hello,

IN addition, NFS must speak NFS v3 over TCP.


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