In this video, I will show you how to HOW TO: Add a Synology NAS providing NFS Storge to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0. I will show you the process of creating a storage pool followed by a btrfs volume, enabling NFS and Exporting the NFS volume and connecting to VMware vSphere Hypervisor ESXi 7.0, by creating a dedicated storage network using a VMkernel portgroup for NFS traffic.
I will show you how to troubleshoot and check using simple bash tools ping and vmkping, that NFS traffic can reach the NAS.
The syntax I’m using in this video to test network communications between VMkernel portgroups and NAS (NFS), and check for jumbo frames.
ping <IP address>
vmkping -I vmkX <IP address> -s 9000
where X is a number of your VMkernel portgroup
In this video, I make reference to the previous videos written articles
Part 5: HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0)
Part 24: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a direct from VMware.
Part 25: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a in 5 easy steps.
Hancock’s Half Hour VMware vSphere video series
Part 5: HOW TO: Enable SSH Remote Access on a VMware vSphere Hypervisor 7.0 (ESXi 7.0).
Part 16: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a direct from VMware.
Part 17: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7.0U2 to ESXi 7.0U2a in 5 easy steps.
Part 18: HOW TO: Update VMware ESXi 7U1 (7.0.1) to VMware ESXi 7U2a (7.0.2) using an ISO image.
Tags: DRS, ESXi, Export, HA, iSCSI, NFS, Shared Storage, Synology, vCenter Server, vMotion