exporting a nfs share from AIX 6.2

[hervel...@gmail.com]

Hi all,
My goal is to use an AIX (6.1) to share an NFS directory to make an ESXi 5 NFS datastore.

I used "smitty mknfsexp" to create and share an nfs directory with the default options.
When I mount this share on the same host, it seems to work fine and the nfs shared directory is mounted and available through its mount point:

# mount 172.16.200.99:/nfshare /mnt
# 172.16.200.99 /nfshare /mnt nfs3 06 fév 15:08
# cd /mnt
# ls
toto

But when I want to use it as an NFS datastore from the ESXI 5 node (using GUI or esxcfg-nas -a command), the vmkernel.log of the ESXI says:

2013-02-06T14:40:18.990Z cpu0:2056)WARNING: NFS: 217: Got error -1 from mount call
2013-02-06T14:40:18.990Z cpu2:3485)NFS: 217: NFS mount 172.16.200.99:/nfshare status: Failure

Does anyone have an idea about this ?

Thks

[Gerard H. Pille]

hervel...@gmail.com wrote:
> I used "smitty mknfsexp" to create and share an nfs directory with the default options.

In which case you did not grant the ESXI 5 node access.

See http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/idm/v2r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.db2tools.fpeic.doc.ug/fpeic156.html 1., second
bullet, d.

[hervel...@gmail.com]

Hi Gerard,
Thank you very much for your reply, it helped me very much and i used the link you provided, and now it works fine. I did not fill the right field in smitty.
Thanks again.