How can mount NFS share in ESXi

[mirror51]

I have got Negear Ready NAS and i can mount that on my normal Linux centos with

mount  -t  nfs 192.168.0.44:/DISK1/BACKUPS /BACKUPS

I have many two datstores in My Esxi Vsphere server and i want to make daily backups of my all virtual machies

I have found this from inetrnet

http://sourceforge.net/projects/xsibackup/

now for that to work i need to mount my NFS to some /vmfs/volumes/BACKUP

so that i can do backups on daily basis

I also read about veeam but i am not sure if that saves backups to NFS and and does it do HOT backups or not but that one surely does

all i want is to mount the NFS on ESXI server. i have the ssh access enabled and Esxi 5.5

[vThinkBeyondVM]

Hi Friend,

Plz refer below links for adding NFS.

From vSphere client :

VMware vSphere 5.1

From Web client:

http://www.yellow-bricks.com/2012/09/13/back-to-basics-using-the-web-client-to-add-an-nfs-share/

There are ways to add the same from powerCLi as well through VC-APIs as well.

[admin]

From the busybox shell:

esxcfg-nas -a <datastore name> -o <nfs server name> -s <nfs server path>

This will mount the NFS file system at /vmfs/volumes/<datastore name>.

[mirror51]

thanks for that ,

will it format the datastore with vmfs format or my folder will stay as it is on NFS and my own hosts can see the files in that folder like other normal share

[admin]

mirror51 wrote:

thanks for that ,

will it format the datastore with vmfs format or my folder will stay as it is on NFS and my own hosts can see the files in that folder like other normal share

The latter.