Netagear ReadyNAS, NFS datastore, VMware VSphere ESXi and VCenter

How to create an NFS volume to be used as a datastore for VMware environment with a NetGear Ready NAS

Login to the Netgear Ready NAS as the admin
Under Settings – Enable NFS
Create a Share - and name it
Then select the Settings of the Share
Select Network Access select NFS- check off read/write
                Note: You can also limit the host by IP that can have access to this share
File Access - check off read/write
Make sure that you note the volume name. You will need this when you are entering the folder name in the NFS mount process. Note the volume name may differ depending on the version of your Netgear ReadyNAS firmware version, etc. in this example it is Data

Open VCenter VSphere client or VSphere Web Client to create a new datastore for your VMware environment. Make sure that include the volume name and the folder share name when you are entering the folder name in the VMware NFS datastore mount process. The key point is to use the proper syntax for the folder name when you are putting in the information for the folder name In my example I used /Data/VMs

Note: Caps and correct spelling really, really count and of course the correct syntax as you see above J

For Server you can enter an IP address or the FQDN

Type in a name for the VMware datastore name