I have created an NFS share on a Windows Storage Server 2008 machine for use on two ESXi servers but I am unable to connect to the share from either. I have created the share with "Allow anonymous access", "Allow root access" and changed the permissions to Read-Write.
The error I am getting is:
"Call "HostDatastoreSystem.CreateNasDatastore" for object "datastoreSystem-18" on vCenter Server "galvctr01.europe.ad.celestica.com" failed.
Some other steps I have taken:
- Added a VMKernel port with IP address on the same subnet as the NFS share
- Used vmkping from an SSH connection to verify connectivity
- Verified that the NFS client is listed in the Outgoing connections in the firewall
I'm not sure why the error references the vCenter Server, I did not think this server would be involved anywhere in this process. But when I saw the error message I decided to check that I could connect to the NFS share from this server. It is a Windows Server 2003 machine so I needed to install the NFS componenets first to connect to the share. Did that successfully and created a mapped drive to the NFS share. However this did not resolve the problem of adding the share to the ESXi server.
Would appreciate any help or comments.