Wednesday, April 20, 2011

Mount NFS shared on ESX -notes

Few things to take note:

If you encounter the following error and are sure that your NFS server firewall is ocnfigured properly or disable

 mount: mount to NFS server 'hostname' failed: System Error: Connection refused  

You might want to try this this

 esxcfg-firewall -e nfsClient

If you encounter the following error:

 mount.nfs Input/output error

You might want to check your portmap status and start it if is stopped.

Check ths status

 service portmap status

Start the service

 service portmap start