Comments on: Free shared NAS/SAN storage using Openfiler 2.3 NFS on VMware ESX 4.0

By: Running a HA / DRS ESX 4 cluster on a single HP ML110 G5 | lapperfoepie.nl

Running a HA / DRS ESX 4 cluster on a single HP ML110 G5 | lapperfoepie.nl — Thu, 07 Jul 2011 23:50:59 +0000

[...] change I quickly decided to go with NFS. I described the steps I took in my previous blogpost with Free shared NAS/SAN storage using Openfiler 2.3 NFS on VMware ESX 4.0 as [...]

By: dnc

dnc — Fri, 19 Nov 2010 14:47:00 +0000

damir, try to enable NFSv3 server service. this was the fix for me

By: SanthoshC

SanthoshC — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 09:16:29 +0000

Its really working perfect..!! NO issues. we can configure iSCSI in Windows machines and NFS mount points in Linux…! Excellent..!

By: Abrar Ahmed

Abrar Ahmed — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 11:49:26 +0000

Thank you for your post. I configured this and it works fine.

By: damir

damir — Wed, 02 Jun 2010 06:39:05 +0000

I have this error on my esx 4 server:
” Error during the configuration of the host: NFS Error: Unable to Mount filesytem: The NFS server does not support MOUNT version 3 over TCP “

By: Heiko

Heiko — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:12:54 +0000

pow: really nice howto, all works fine. I’ve been struggling a bit with LDAP but left it behind. Only thing now is when I enable smb shares in openfiler I have to (in windows) enter the IP of openfiler to find the share. It doesn’t show up in network for some reason…

The openfiler box is a member of the same domain/workgroup? They use the same gateway? No DNS issues?

By: Heiko

Heiko — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 11:10:30 +0000

dex: Thanks a lot. I followed your guide but the “Host Access Configuration” didn’t show up in the Shares section. I enabled the LDAP but nothing happened. Please help me!

dex, to be honest, I need more information to help you. When following my guide the Host Access Configuration should pop up. The only thing I could think of what could be happening is when you're using FireFox, it seems that some configuration options are placed to the bottom of the page, and with bottom I really mean down the page. When this doesn't help, please contact me. I'll try to help whenever I have some spare time.

By: dex

dex — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 13:06:10 +0000

Thanks a lot.
I followed your guide but the “Host Access Configuration” didn’t show up in the Shares section.
I enabled the LDAP but nothing happened.
Please help me!

By: pow

pow — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 22:20:42 +0000

really nice howto, all works fine. I’ve been struggling a bit with LDAP but left it behind.
Only thing now is when I enable smb shares in openfiler I have to (in windows) enter the IP of openfiler to find the share. It doesn’t show up in network for some reason…

By: Heiko

Heiko — Thu, 11 Jun 2009 06:34:51 +0000

Tim: I have heard something about StarWind iSCSI target as an alternative to the Openfiler, as I am not too familiar with Linux. Do you have any feedback/comments on that that you could share?

Tim, to be honest I only used Openfiler for my shared storage needs so far, but Arne Fokkema of ICTfreak.nl wrote an article about the use of StarWind, just some days ago: StarWind – Free iSCSI Target. Perhaps you can use it to get an idea what solution to choose for your personal needs.