Hello

 

I'm trying to setup a remote datastore to save all my esxi's vms.

I've already setup a share and enable the NFS service on the unRaid side.

NFS Security Settings

Share name: tower

Export: yes

Security: Private

 

On the ESXI 7.0 Storage --> New datastore --> Mount NFS datastore

Name: tower

NFS Server: unraid's ip

NFS share: /tower

NFS version: NFS 3

 

Then I get this error:

Failed to mount NFS datastore tower - NFS mount 192.168.88.99:/tower failed: The mount request was denied by the NFS server. Check that the export exists and that the client is permitted to mount it

 

Also tried leaving Security: Public

Add the same user on ESXI machine

And used foward and back slashes  /  \

 

From what I can gather:

1) unRaid does not support NFS 4

2) ESXI can only mount shares in NFS with VMFS FS... Is this true?

3) Why login credentials only appears when I select NFS 4 on ESXI and not with NFS 3?

 

Any help would be greatly appreciated

Thanks

Can I ask if you ever did get this working 

Just got this running with this settings on ESXi - no user authentication tho:

 

Name esxi_back

NFS-Server 192.168.123.123

NFS-Share /mnt/user/esxi_back

NFS-Version NFS3

Weirdly enough, i got this working on vsphere 7 by toggling the nfs service from nfs3 to nfs4 and also changing the security from public, to private - then public again.

 

Then i was able to mount the folder on vsphere. Not sure if doing that process restarted a service, but it works for me now.