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ONTAP tools for VMware vSphere 10.2

Mount NFS and VMFS datastores

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Mounting a datastore provides storage access to additional (NFS/VMFS) hosts. You can mount the datastore on the additional hosts after you add the hosts to your VMware environment.

  • Some of the right click actions are disabled or unavailable depending on vSphere client versions and the type of datastore selected. If you're using vSphere client 8.0 or later versions, some of the right-click options are hidden.

  • From vSphere 7.0U3 to vSphere 8.0 versions even though the options appear, the action will be disabled.

  • Mount datastore is disabled when the host cluster is protected with uniform configurations.

Steps

  1. From the vSphere Client home page, click Hosts and Clusters.

  2. In the navigation pane, select the datacenter that contains the host.

  3. Repeat Step 2 for any additional hosts.

  4. To mount NFS/VMFS datastores on host or host cluster, right-click on it and select NetApp ONTAP tools > Mount Datastores.

  5. Select the datastores that you want to mount and click Mount.

You can track the progress in the Recent Task panel.