mount NFS share from CEPH Cluster to ESXi server

[Chavell3]

Hi,

I have a problem when mounting a NFS share from a ceph cluster.
Mounting that share to a ESXi server doen not work.

Now I saw from the mount command,

sudo mount -t nfs -o vers=4,port=2249 192.168.4.179:vm_pool /mnt/vm_pool

that it seems an ceph nfs export uses another port and some mount folder than a, let's say classic NFS mount.
But how could I mount that share to an ESXi server.

Thanks.

[Chavell3]

I found the solution to that issue...
CEPH file sharing uses Ganesha for an NFS export.
Ganesha's default NFS port is really 2249

There are two commands to configure that.

qs-util nfsganesha : Configures the scale-out NFS Ganesha service to use the primary NFS port 2049.
qs-util nfsstandard : Configures the scale-out NFS Ganesha service to use the secondary NFS port 2249.

After I changed the default port for ganesha to 2049, an export to an ESXi host worked fine.

[jblake]

Great news. Yes, we use the default port of Ganesha, which is 2249 as you've found. Using the 'qs-util nfsganesha' command will change from 2249 to 2049, so that your clients can connect.