I have a directory on a Solaris 11 server that has a bunch of ISOs in it, and I want to make those available to my vSphere servers (ESXi 5.5U3). I've been doing the same from a Solaris 10 server for several years (ESXi 4.1 & 5.5) without issue. I have been able to successfully mount the Solaris 11 share on multiple Linux & Solaris client systems, but any attempt to mount it on my ESXi server fails.
Here's what I see at the ESXi command line:
~ # esxcfg-nas -a -o 192.168.1.33 -s /ptmp/iso iso Connecting to NAS volume: iso Unable to connect to NAS volume iso: Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Unable to connect to NFS server. Please see the VMkernel log for detailed error information
Looking in the vmkernel log, I see these messages:
2015-12-30T04:03:20.252Z cpu4:1173363)NFS: 157: Command: (mount) Server: (192.168.1.33) IP: (192.168.1.33) Path: (/ptmp/iso) Label: (iso) Options: (None)
2015-12-30T04:03:20.252Z cpu4:1173363)StorageApdHandler: 698: APD Handle a3b73984-acaaad7e Created with lock[StorageApd0x410a7b]
2015-12-30T04:03:20.258Z cpu4:1173363)StorageApdHandler: 745: Freeing APD Handle [a3b73984-acaaad7e]
2015-12-30T04:03:20.258Z cpu4:1173363)StorageApdHandler: 808: APD Handle freed!
2015-12-30T04:03:20.258Z cpu4:1173363)NFS: 168: NFS mount 192.168.1.33:/ptmp/iso failed: Unable to connect to NFS server.
I worked through KB article 1003967, and netcat, etc. all seems to work OK for me.
Any ideas?
Thanks.