need advices for NFS sharing to ESXi

[Thomas102]

Hi,

I am a neebie in NFS.
At first I had problems with rights messing up on the NFS share and ESXi cannot write on it.

I figured out that vmware was using userid 4294967294 so I created a local user with it and then makes it owner of the dataset.
For group, I had not clue what to set. I guessed webdav should be okay...

This solution is working, but is this the right way to do it ?

Also I wonder what is the use case for the "Add Extra path" button in nfs share setting ?
Is it any use for vmware ? I know that multipathing is not supported

Thanks for you comments.

 

[dlavigne]

Did you find the answer to your questions?

 

[Thomas102]

Did you find the answer to your questions?

Actually no.
Thanks.

 

[Spearfoot]

Hi,

I am a neebie in NFS.
At first I had problems with rights messing up on the NFS share and ESXi cannot write on it.

I figured out that vmware was using userid 4294967294 so I created a local user with it and then makes it owner of the dataset.
For group, I had not clue what to set. I guessed webdav should be okay...

This solution is working, but is this the right way to do it ?

Also I wonder what is the use case for the "Add Extra path" button in nfs share setting ?
Is it any use for vmware ? I know that multipathing is not supported

Thanks for you comments.

I run VMware ESXi v6.0 and FreeNAS 11.0U2, with FreeNAS providing NFS-based datastores.

For the NFS share, I configured root as the Maproot User and group wheel as the Maproot Group:

Here are my NFS service settings:

And here are the storage settings on VMware:

Hope this helps... good luck!

 

[Thomas102]

Thank you for the snapshots.
I found that User 4294967294 is "nobody" and so my actual configuration is somewhat "wrong"
I'll go the maproot way.