NFS is a great storage solution within a VMware vSphere environment, but when the connection to the NFS server is lost, you’ll find yourself in a whole bunch of trouble!
In most circumstances some virtual machines are still connected to the NFS Datastore and since it’s in use, you cannot delete and recreate it. In the end there’s no other alternative than rebooting the ESX host, or is there……
If you want to find out how to remount an NFS Datastore you should watch this online training from “Virtualization Guru” Eric Sloof!
Remount an NFS Datastore without rebooting from Eric Sloof NTPRO.NL on Vimeo.
