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OpenSolaris 2008.11 & ESX (Security Part 2)

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If you are using OpenSolaris and NFS for your datastores and using ESX you need to share out your zfs filesystems with anon=0 since ESX wants to write to the NFS datastore as root.

zfs set sharenfs=anon=0 usbpool/virtuals

I wouldn’t mind having stuff like this if I could figure out how to properly get logging of the issues/connections in OpenSolaris. Anybody know how to increasing logging for the NFS services in OpenSolaris?

OpenSolaris 2008.11 & NFS (security?)

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A quick note here after the past 4 hours of fighting with NFS on OpenSolaris 2008.11. If you are attempting to do an mount and get a Permission Denied from either Linux or ESX the solution is rather easy.

Make sure that the IP address that you are connecting with has a reverse DNS entry with a hostname.

That’s it. 4 hours and that’s the gotcha. If you don’t have a reverse DNS you’ll never get the mount to work.