October 2016
Beginner
606 pages
11h 7m
English
Like your iSCSI storage, NFS storage is also network attached and can easily be made a member of your data center infrastructure leveraging its current TCP/IP network. Unlike, iSCSI, NFS is not a block storage, meaning NFS runs and maintains its own file system. Hence, ESXi cannot format and form a new file system on the volumes presented to it from an NFS array. Instead, the NFS volumes, or rightly called exports, are just mount points on an ESXi host, to remote shares on an NFS storage array.
This section of the chapter will cover the procedures involved in configuring access to NFS shares on an NFS Storage.
The prerequisites needed for this task are:
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