Unable to access file ds error while creating VM on NFS datastore created using 7 mode volume

PRIYANKAADSUL — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 09:46:47 GMT

Hi Team,

We have created volume on 7Mode NetApp storage.

Using this volume NFS datastore is created on VMware.

Now when we try to use this datastore e.g Deploy vm ,we are getting error :

Unable to access file ds:///vmfs/volumes/f3eb1e20-e042a3bc/New Virtual Machine

When we create NFS Datastore by qtree and try to deploy vm on it it works smoothly.

Please confirm on priority , is it mandatory to create qtree on volume to use datastore ?

OR any additional settings required to make NFS datastore using volume usable ?

Thanks in advance.

Regards,

Priyanka Adsul

Technology Lead Quality Assurance

Cumulus-Systems

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