I am wanting to use UnRAId as a VMWare datastore.  Now that nfs is supported has anyone gotten this to work?  My vmware boxes do not see the nfs shares as being available to use as a datastore.

I am wanting to use UnRAId as a VMWare datastore.  Now that nfs is supported has anyone gotten this to work?  My vmware boxes do not see the nfs shares as being available to use as a datastore.

 

I big one is you need No root squash enabled.  I have not been able to upgrade my unraid yet to test it personally but have done NFS with ESX quite often.  If you browse the VMware Community forums you will see the syntax you need.  I'll give an example if I get to it soon.

I tried using no_root_squash in the export command box in unraid. it read *(rw,no_root_squash).

 

I then went to vmware and tried to set an NFS data store.  Server IP, path /disk12 or /datastore-002, and datastore2 and the datastore name.  i tried both disk NFS exports and share NFS exports. In both cases I get rejected by the unraid server.

 

Any clues?

Answered my own question.  Set the mount point to /mnt/disk12 rather than /disk12.  It seems to work now.

hey cool..  let us know what kind of performance you get out of that when you get some vm's running

Can you give me an example of the export (NFS) string you put to make this work ... this is exactly what I am trying to make happen and I can't figure out what I'm doing wrong ... I'm very young with linux knowledge and just feel I'm not putting in the right string value

This works like a charm for me:

 

*(rw,no_root_squash)

 

on the ESX side,  for a share do this:  /mnt/user/sharename/

 

the trailing slash i *THINK* is important for some reason.

For the Export settings in the unRaid admin>Shares view

 

Disk shares (NFS): *(rw,no_root_squash)

 

What about in the User Shares part what did you put in the value for:

 

Export (NFS): ?

 

Is this not needed?

those boxes for both each way of sharing.  if you want to nfs share a disk, use the first one,  if you want a share, do the second.

Ahhhh ... this worked perfectly ... thank you so very much!

Thanks for the info in this post.

 

I have now connected my ESX server to my test unRAID box. The notes in this post enabled me to connect up.

 

Well done guys.