topic Re: ADD HDD to ESXI 5 in ESXi Discussions

ADD HDD to ESXI 5

arcticeye — Thu, 03 May 2012 11:08:13 GMT

Good morning,

My issue is. I want to make backup of my vm's and I couldn't get to mount any external device, not an ext3 not an ntfs, not by usb not by eSATA. mount command doesn't exist.

What can I do?

Thank you very much,

Best regards

Matias

Re: ADD HDD to ESXI 5

vmroyale — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:04:38 GMT

Hello.

Note: This discussion was moved from General Issues to the VMware ESXi 5

community.

Good Luck!

Re: ADD HDD to ESXI 5

Samcer — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:18:58 GMT

Hi Matias,

if you want to mount a storage to your host for backup purpose I suggest you use the GUI (vSphere Client) and mount an NFS.

Probably you don't want to use this datastore as storage for your VM so you can add a privilege to deny accesses to the datastore itself.

ESXi is not designed to mount devices as a Linux box. Once you have the datastore mounted you can still use ESXi Shell to browse your storage see /vmfs/volumes/...

If you have a licenced ESXi there are many options to perform backups, let us know if you need more details

my 2 cents

Sam

Re: ADD HDD to ESXI 5

arcticeye — Thu, 03 May 2012 13:48:56 GMT

Hi SAM Thank you very much. I'm trying to use the NFS.

I have a NFS server configured in Ubuntu 10.04 LTS Server. The unit is in /home/control/nfs. I mount it using the vsphere and I can upload things to the ESXi using the NFS in my ubuntu. The problem here is, I don't know why, the NFS unit loses connection and I have to unmount it from the vsphere and remount again. I don't know why it happens. Any ideas?

Thanks a lot.

Matias

Re: ADD HDD to ESXI 5

Samcer — Thu, 03 May 2012 14:40:26 GMT

Hi Matias,

supposing is not a network problem, verify your /etc/exports file. It should contains 3 options rw,no_root_squash,async.

You may habe a look to a similar problem here: http://communities.vmware.com/message/1421474

HTH

Sam