Unable to browse NFS datastore from esxi: General system error: Invalid argument

winstontj

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I have a NFS 4.0 share in my tn-core machine that is giving me the following error from ESXi:
Operation failed!

Task name Search datastore
Target tn1
Status A general system error occurred: Invalid argument
I have two nfs 4.0 shares on this machine. One is "tn.bak" (for backups) which is working perfectly fine, and the second nfs 4.0 share is called "tn" which is giving me that error. I can see that my VM's are still there and the datastore seems like it is adding to vsphere/vcenter server normally, but when I try to browse the files, I get that error. I also can't see any of my VM's from ESXi.

Should I delete the NFS share from tn-core and make a new nfs share? I didn't do anything or change anything. No idea why this started happening. I didn't even do an update. We went on vacation for a week and the weather said a hurricane might hit us while we were away so I powered everything down. When I turned my stuff back on, the NFS share was listed as "inaccessible" I messed with it for a bit and then eventually I removed it from ESXi and re-added it. It looks like it is re-adding fine except now I can't browse any of the files.

Any ideas?
Thanks
 

MrGuvernment

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What version of ESXi?
 

winstontj

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What version of ESXi?
Sorry I missed this. vcsa is 8.0.2 and hosts are 7.0.3
I just don't understand what I did (or was it an upgrade?) to make that one datastore not ablt to be browsed vs. the other two on the same NAS with same permissions are fine.

Maybe I need to just delete the NFS share and re-add it?
 
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