There's a little bug in the NFS stack of the 2008.11 that requires that the client IP be resolveable. All you need to do to get around this is to put the IP of your vkmernel interface in /etc/hosts with any name.
I haven't checked if this is fixed in 2009.06. Cordialement, Erik Ableson +33.6.80.83.58.28 Envoy? depuis mon iPhone On 20 juin 2009, at 00:08, James Bradley <opensolaris at web.jamesb.org> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm trying to get ESXi 4 to use an NFS export as a datastore, but > it continually fails to connect. The error shown on the vSphere > Client is the well-known "NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesystem: The > mount request was denied by the NFS server. Check that the export > exists and that the client is permitted to mount it" > > The NFS server is running OpenSolaris 2009.06. I am able to mount > the NFS export from another OpenSolaris box successfully. > > The solaris box (solar) is on 10.0.0.50 > The ESXi server is on 10.0.0.52 > The NFS export is /tank/nfs/vm1 > > The vm1 directory is globally readable and writable. > drwxrwxrwx 2 jamesb staff 2 2009-06-19 22:12 vm1 > > I set up the share using: zfs set sharenfs=rw=10.0.0.52,root=10.0.0.52 > tank/nfs/vm1 > I have also tried without the rw option, and without the root > option, without any luck. > > # showmount -e > export list for solar: > /tank/nfs/vm1 10.0.0.52 > (or, if I removed the rw and root options I get: /tank/nfs/vm1 > (everyone)) > > # sharemgr show -vp > default nfs=() > zfs > zfs/tank/nfs/vm1 nfs=() nfs:sys=(rw="10.0.0.52" root="10.0.0.52") > /tank/nfs/vm1 > > Snoop shows the following: > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=111 S=755 Syn Seq=2233513954 Len=0 > Win=65535 Options=<mss 1460,nop,wscale 1,nop,nop,tstamp 3586045 > 0,sackOK,eol> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=755 S=111 Syn Ack=2233513955 Seq=3630673266 > Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214393 3586045,mss > 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,sackOK> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=111 S=755 Ack=3630673267 Seq=2233513955 > Len=0 Win=33304 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3586045 3214393> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar PORTMAP C GETPORT prog=100005 (MOUNT) > vers=3 proto=TCP > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=755 S=111 Ack=2233514059 Seq=3630673267 > Len=0 Win=49128 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214393 3586045> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 PORTMAP R GETPORT port=34596 > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=111 S=755 Fin Ack=3630673299 Seq=2233514059 > Len=0 Win=33304 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3586045 3214394> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=34596 S=756 Syn Seq=82774780 Len=0 > Win=65535 Options=<mss 1460,nop,wscale 1,nop,nop,tstamp 3586045 > 0,sackOK,eol> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=755 S=111 Ack=2233514060 Seq=3630673299 > Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214394 3586045> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=756 S=34596 Syn Ack=82774781 Seq=3630723273 > Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214394 3586045,mss > 1460,nop,wscale 0,nop,nop,sackOK> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=755 S=111 Fin Ack=2233514060 Seq=3630673299 > Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214394 3586045> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=34596 S=756 Ack=3630723274 Seq=82774781 > Len=0 Win=33304 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3586045 3214394> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=111 S=755 Ack=3630673300 Seq=2233514060 > Len=0 Win=33303 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3586045 3214394> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar MOUNT3 C Mount /tank/nfs/vm1 > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=756 S=34596 Ack=82774889 Seq=3630723274 > Len=0 Win=49124 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214394 3586045> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 MOUNT3 R Mount Permission denied > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=34596 S=756 Fin Ack=3630723306 Seq=82774889 > Len=0 Win=33304 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3586046 3214395> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=756 S=34596 Ack=82774890 Seq=3630723306 > Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214395 3586046> > solar -> 10.0.0.52 TCP D=756 S=34596 Fin Ack=82774890 Seq=3630723306 > Len=0 Win=49232 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3214395 3586046> > 10.0.0.52 -> solar TCP D=34596 S=756 Ack=3630723307 Seq=82774890 > Len=0 Win=33303 Options=<nop,nop,tstamp 3586047 3214395> > > Can anyone help or suggest where I might look next? I'm completely > stumped. > > Many thanks, > James. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > nfs-discuss mailing list > nfs-discuss at opensolaris.org
