NFS Configuration, and Custom Roles

NFS Configuration

In this guide we will be outlining the necessary steps to mount a Linux "NSF" File share, as a datastore in esxi, to provide more space for VM's and user files, as well as share them to all user's of the NFS.

1. First go to the ESXI Host in the Inventory section of vCenter, then right click the host you your adding the datastore to, and select "Storage" and then "Add Storage":

2. Next in the wizard select "NFS 3"

3. Now enter the plaintext name the datastore will use in ESXi, then the file path for the store, and finally the IP of the storage server.

4. Finally select a Host, and then review the configure before accepting, and mounting the VM.

Now You can upload files, and create VM's on the NFS server as if it was a local datastore for the system.

Custom User Roles

This guide will be a quick overview of how to clone a permissions role, and then editing settings

1. First select the menu in the top left, and select administration, then select Roles

2. Now select the Role you want to change, click on it, then select "clone".

3. Now name the new permissions role, and then select the permissions you want the role to have, or uncheck ones you would like to remove.

4. Finally save the configuration.

5. Now you can apply the role, by clicking the folder, and navigating to "permissions"

6. Finally click add, and then fill out the wizard, entering the domain our using, the group of users to be assigned the permission, at a group level, and then selecting the role you just created. Make sure to propagate to children, for the permissions to be set to all folders inside the selected one.

Now you have made a custom role, and applied it to a folder.