Mounting a ReadyNas 1100 as a datastore

[JohnFromOshawa]

I am trying to mount a readynas an added datastore for extra

storage of files such as ISO’s and other things.

After much failure, and reading, I would just would like a

know if this next approach will work,

My readynas, has its secondary network port configured for access

to esxhosts network, and it pings fine.

I have made shares, set the NFS settings and set the

permissions in the readynas to allow

root access from the esxhosts, and vcenter.

A step I realized I missed was adding a VMkernal, my

important question is, ( this is just adding a virtual network access port correct??? ) this wont interfere with our

current blade server configuration, right? Lol

And for settings, I assume the default vmnic3 if fine to

use? and use a free ip address.

Should stop getting the error

“Error during the

configuration of the host: NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesystem: Unable to

connect to NFS server”

Thanks

[athlon_crazy]

ESX require at least one VMkernel for environment with storage based network (eg.NFS & iscsi) but for ESXi, you not necessarily need to create another VMkernel since ESXi management already have one. VMkernel creation shouldn't cause any harm or break your current configuration but for safety, create it using new vSwitch and new vmnic(ESX).

p/s : use vmkping instead ping to check whether your ESX/i is ready to talk with your NAS.

vcbMC-1.0.6 Beta

vcbMC-1.0.7 Lite

[rogard]

Remember the path on the readynas is something like this:

/c/test