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Monday, August 30, 2010

Error mounting NFS Store from ESX

Just wanted to make a reminder to myself about what I encountered today:

“Just because you were told that there are no port restrictions between the 2 VLANs, don’t count on the information always being true.”

Problem

I was assisting a client move an NFS device for their vSphere environment today and kept getting the following error after re-IP-ing the device:

Error during the configuration of the host: NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesystem: The mount request was denied by the NFS server. Check that the export exists and that the client permitted to mount it

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Solution

As it turns out after doing all the sanity checks on the NFS device’s management console, the problem was because there were port restrictions between the 2 VLANs.

As per the following VMware KB article:

http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1007352

The ports required are: 111 and 2049 on UDP and TCP

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