You cannot connect to your NFS storage

The following are some questions and tasks you can take to troubleshoot NFS connection issues.

Have all the network requirements for you NFS connection been met?

Tip

You can refer Chapter 3, Troubleshooting Storage Visibility, for more information on this topic.

You need to consider the following points when checking network requirements:

  • The ESXi host needs to have the proper networking configuration in order to attach to an NFS mount. A VMkernel port must be set up on the same subnet as your NFS storage array with the proper IP addressing and subnet mask.
  • Ensure all DNS and routing information is accurate using the following command:
    esxcfg-route -l
    
  • If you are using VLANs, be sure that proper VLAN configuration ...

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