The host is losing access to the existing NFS share when the user renames the share and present a new share with the old name of an existing share.
Steps to Repro:
1. Map an NFS share to host with any name, for example, “NFS-01.”
2. “NFS-01” has a shared path as “/nas/nfs-1.”
3. Rename “NFS-01” to “NFS-01-renamed”
4. Present a new NFS share to the host with the share path “/nas/nfs-2.”
5. Map new NFS with the name “NFS-01”
Error:
The "Create NAS datastore" operation failed for the 2 entities with
the following error message.
An error occurred during host configuration
Operation failed, diagnostics report: Unable to get console path for
mountWhy Host loses access to the NFS share :
In current versions host uses volume labels, i.e. “NFS-01” as part of the device name. When NFS datastore was created with the name “NFS-01”, the device name was “nfs:nfs-01”. When a user renames NFS share name, the host will not update the device name, it remains “nfs:nfs-01”.
When a new share gets presented to host with “NFS-01”, it also creates a device with the name “nfs:nfs01” which is when the host sees a conflict. Which is causing the issue.
Workaround:
Rebooting the hosts where these NFS shares were presented
Fix :
The issue is fixed in 6.7GA. It will also be backported to older versions soon.
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