Creating File System in Sun Storage 7310 (NAS) and adding it to VMware datastores.

Access the browser user interface (BUI) of the Sun Storage 7310 and go to the “Shares” tab. It has the option to add a Filesystem (NFS) or LUN (iSCSI). I will be concentrating on the Filesystem part for this documentation. Click on the add symbol (+) beside the Filesystem to add the Filesystem. For this documentation, the Filesystem name used is “OS-2”. A project by the name NFS has been already created for Network File System and we choose that to create our new Filesystem. The details of the Project NFS are given below: After the creation, the Filesystems will have the addition of the new Filesystem “OS-2” as shown below To manipulate the Filesystem “OS-2” as desired, edit the Filesystem and uncheck the checkbox “inherit from project” for the properties section and apply it. We check the “Quota” checkbox and gave 500 GB for this documentation purpose. To add the Filesystem as a datastore in the VMware, open the VSphere c...