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[the7thcolumn]

Morning!

I have a quick question for you guys. I am attempting to set up my WHS2011 NFS so I can connect my ESXi 5 infrastructure to it. However I cannot seem to get it to work.

I have gotten it to work On Win7 to ESXi5 using HaneWin NFS (it's a NFS server for Win7) so I am aware on how to add it and it does inf act work.

So I attempted to use Windows Home server 2011 to do this. When adding the NFS to ESXi it fails. So I set the permissions to anon access but still no avail.

Has anyone tried this before?

[Trench_2]

There is a guide here on how to do it. They had a similar guide for WHS v1 that I followed with no issues.
I'm currently setting up a WHS 11 VM on ESXi right now to migrate to from v1. I will be using that guide for NFS as well.

[the7thcolumn]

Thanks Ill follow this guide tonight!

[Garry]

the7thcolumn, on 03 February 2012 - 04:54 PM, said:

Morning!

I have a quick question for you guys. I am attempting to set up my WHS2011 NFS so I can connect my ESXi 5 infrastructure to it. However I cannot seem to get it to work.

I have gotten it to work On Win7 to ESXi5 using HaneWin NFS (it's a NFS server for Win7) so I am aware on how to add it and it does inf act work.

So I attempted to use Windows Home server 2011 to do this. When adding the NFS to ESXi it fails. So I set the permissions to anon access but still no avail.

Has anyone tried this before?

http://forum.wegotse...564#entry104564

[the7thcolumn]

Garry, on 08 February 2012 - 09:04 PM, said:

http://forum.wegotse...564#entry104564

Did you read what I wrote? Im trying to connect ESXi to WHS2011. Not install WHS2011 on ESXi that would be a waste.

[the7thcolumn]

Trench_2, on 04 February 2012 - 03:49 PM, said:

There is a guide here on how to do it. They had a similar guide for WHS v1 that I followed with no issues.
I'm currently setting up a WHS 11 VM on ESXi right now to migrate to from v1. I will be using that guide for NFS as well.

I have the NFS mounted finally. Missed one step but its working now. However ESX sees it as having 0.00B free.

[the7thcolumn]

HERPA-DERP I fixed it I would like to revise the intructions for anyone else who wants to use ESXi 5 with Windows Home Server 2011

1) Create a NFS Share as shown on said link.
-Ensure to have root access enabled or it will still connect but show 0.00B

2) When prompted to add the datastore in ESXi (or manually under Configuration > Datastore) put in the IP of the NFS, and under the share name put in the path as "/path/dir" or if its in the root of your drive put "/dir".

Do not put: nfs://pc/path (as the guide said)
Do not put: /volume/path (as ESXi wants)
Do not put: HOSTNAME:/path (as WHS says is the network path).