December 2017
Beginner
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The only types of network-attached storage (NAS) supported by ESXi are those with NFS protocols, NFS 3, or NFS 4.1 (starting with vSphere 6.0), both over TCP (by default NFS is on the UDP transport protocol). Like software iSCSI, an ESXi host needs a proper VMkernel and virtual network configuration to access a remote NFS server.
Note that there isn't a specific type of VMkernel interface for NFS traffic; depending on your routing table the right interface is chosen properly.
To add a new NFS datastore, proceed with the following steps:
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