NFS Share getting appended (1)

Products

• VMware vSphere ESXi

Issue/Introduction

The datastore functions properly , however the name gets appended with (1) . One of the datastores will be duplicated, and end with (1)

Symptoms:

NFS Share gets appended with (1) when added to a new host in a cluster

 

Cause

Either the host has this duplicated datastore.
or probably it happened because the datastore was mounted twice, once by IP address, and again by hostname/FQDN

Resolution

The below steps can be performed to overcome this :

(1) Check the share name of the datastore

In case if it is using FQDN.domain.com /Datashare

Try changing it to FDQN.DOMAIN.COM /Datashare

 

The caps in the FQDN makes the variance in the symbolic name that can cause the problem

 

(2) If the above step doesn't help , proceed to the below step

 

(a) List the mounted datastores on the host :

esxcli storage nfs list

 

(b) Make a note of the NFS datastore from step 1. Run this command to delete the NFS mount:

 

esxcli storage nfs remove -v NFS_Datastore_Name

 

Note: This operation does not delete the information on the share, it unmounts the share from the host. If the NFS datastore is being used by either a virtual machine or a third party script, you may see this error:

 

Error performing operation: NFS Error: Unable to Unmount filesystem: Busy.

 

To add the datastore:

1. Run this command to mount the NFS datastore:
   
   

   esxcli storage nfs add -H NFS_IP|NFS_HOSTNAME -s Share_mount_point_on_the_NFS -v DatastoreName

Restart Management Agents if the above step doesn't works. Proceed to the below step in case issue isn't still rectified.

 

(3) Remove the share permissions for the host from NFS Storage end and re-add it

Add again via the below command

esxcli storage nfs add -H NFS_IP|NFS_HOSTNAME -s Share_mount_point_on_the_NFS -v DatastoreName

 

Additional Information

Impact/Risks:
Nothing impacted while performing the above steps