ESX 4 and Openfiler NFS

[Cyberrad]

OK some background on my lab as it stands right now. I have 1 Openfiler box that servers iSCSI and NFS to 2 VMWare ESX 4 boxes. For lack of a better explanation, something weird happened. I can no longer mount any of the VMs from the NFS share. When I try to add the VM to inventory the connection between the vSphere Client and the ESX box is lost. More often then not the connection is lost but I have been able add a VM once from the NFS share. This was not successful however as I was greeted with the VM becoming Unknown (inaccessible). The exports file from the Openfiler box looks like this:

/mnt/nfs1/nfs1/ESX 192.168.0.0/24(rw)

Any insight into this issue would be greatly appreciated. Thanks

 

[lopoetve]

ESXi or classic (tells me which logs you'll have)?

edit: esxi - show me /var/log/messages
classic: show me /var/log/vmkernel and /var/log/vmware/hostd.log.

 

[Cyberrad]

It is ESX not ESXi. Thanks for looking at this lopoetve! Files are located here.

This might be it and it doesn't look good. How can I fix this?

Mar  2 08:40:06 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:14:15:10.089 cpu5:4111)WARNING: NFSLock: 1935: Failed to create .lck-7daf050000000000 : Permission denied 
Mar  2 08:40:06 ESX1 vmkernel: 0:14:15:10.089 cpu5:4111)NFSLock: 2677: failed to get lock on file SEED.vmxf 0x410003234950 on 192.168.0.110 (192.168.0.110): Permission denied

 

[lopoetve]

Interesting. That looks promising.

You have the network in OF defined for the vmkernel ports, right? Not the service console?

 

[Cyberrad]

Correct... It is all on the same network and I defined the ACL for the entire network. Separation is in the works.

 

[lopoetve]

kk. I'll take a look as soon as I get a chance.