topic Re: Cifs enabled NFS Volume for ESX datastore in Network and Storage Protocols https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Cifs-enabled-NFS-Volume-for-ESX-datastore/m-p/31674#M2879 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't understand where the problem is. If you have a volume, simply put it in /etc/exports for your NFS access, and create a share on it via "cifs shares -add" (or via System Manager/FilerView).</P><P></P><P>For ESX the volume needs to have UNIX style security and the ESX host must have rw AND root access to it.</P><P></P><P>-Michael</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 May 2011 08:06:10 GMT Darkstar 2011-05-11T08:06:10Z Cifs enabled NFS Volume for ESX datastore https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Cifs-enabled-NFS-Volume-for-ESX-datastore/m-p/31670#M2877 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Does anybody have any suggestions on how to go about creating a Cifs/NFS volume for use with ESX?&nbsp; The Cifs is required becuase we want to write to the same location from a windows host. </P><P></P><P>The project is for a offsite DR solution.&nbsp; Servers are backed up to a windows box on a remote location, the backup solution writes the data to .vmdk files in the Cifs share,&nbsp; then we want to be able to spin up the VMs as quicky as possable from the NFS datastore.</P><P></P><P>Thanks</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:58:20 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Cifs-enabled-NFS-Volume-for-ESX-datastore/m-p/31670#M2877 markicardy 2025-06-05T06:58:20Z Re: Cifs enabled NFS Volume for ESX datastore https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Cifs-enabled-NFS-Volume-for-ESX-datastore/m-p/31674#M2879 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't understand where the problem is. If you have a volume, simply put it in /etc/exports for your NFS access, and create a share on it via "cifs shares -add" (or via System Manager/FilerView).</P><P></P><P>For ESX the volume needs to have UNIX style security and the ESX host must have rw AND root access to it.</P><P></P><P>-Michael</P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 11 May 2011 08:06:10 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/Network-and-Storage-Protocols/Cifs-enabled-NFS-Volume-for-ESX-datastore/m-p/31674#M2879 Darkstar 2011-05-11T08:06:10Z