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Making your Mac OS X as the NFS server

I'm trying to setup a shared storage for ESXi HA and vMotion demo purpose on VMware Fusion. I guess the easiest way with be enabling the native NFS in Mac rather than powering another iSCSI storage such as OpenFiler, FreeNAS, Lefthand VSA, VMware VSA, etc.. 


To view your VMnet, type ifconfig in Terminal.


  1. Edit /etc/exports: sudo vi /etc/exports Add a line like the following (I'm using NAT network for my ESXi network, hence using the VMnet8 interface with the range of 172.16.17.0/24.):
    /Users -maproot=root -network 172.16.17.0 -mask 255.255.255.0
  2. Enable nfsd: sudo nfsd enable
  3. Test your work: showmount -e
  4. You can view the nfsd status: sudo nfsd status
  5. To restart the nfsd: sudo nfsd restart
You can now try to connect ESXi to the NFS or using Mac's Finder to test the connection. Try this... Launch Finder, and press "Shift+Command+G" and type "/net/YourComputerIP/Users".



Other method, you can refer to http://support.apple.com/kb/TA22243


Comments

  1. sebusNovember 10, 2013 at 3:17 AM

    On ML 10.8.4 -mask in exports gives an error in Console "getaddrinfo for -mask failed"

    Removing both -network & -mask makes NFS server work

    https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/Darwin/Reference/ManPages/man5/exports.5.html

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