How to add a NAS (NFS) share to vSphere Server

vCenter Configuration and Adding NFS share to ESX server.

1. Login to Vcenter server using vsphereclient.

2. Click Host & Clusters.

3. Go to HOST and select the Configuration tab there select storage.

4. Click Add Storage.
Disk/LUN or NAS

5. Hostname or ipaddress of NAS Filer. Share Directory Name. Datastore Name.

6.  Now the new data store is added to the ESX server.

 7. Check with the summary of the HOST. Now you can create a virtual machine in the new data store.

 8. Creating a new virtual machine. Right click the host and create VM.

9. Name of the Virtual Machine and select the datacenter.

10. Select the data store. Now you select the NAS data store.

11. New virtual machine created and using the new NAS data store.

All the Best .....................................................................

Senthilkumar Muthusamy