OpenSolaris 2008.11 & ESX (Security Part 2)

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 [...]

Posted on February 5, 2009 at 5:01 am by iguy · Permalink · One Comment
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OpenSolaris 2008.11 & NFS (security?)

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 [...]

Posted on February 4, 2009 at 3:54 am by iguy · Permalink · One Comment
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