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On the ESXi host go to configuration/storage. &nbsp;If you still have the links to the datastores there they should have an IP address that it was pointing to. &nbsp;Better use IP versus hostaname I find as I've seeen strange resolution issues
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On the ESXi host go to configuration/storage.  If you still have the links to the datastores there they should have an IP address that it was pointing to.  Better use IP versus hostaname I find as I've seeen strange resolution issues

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Hi, I have a ESXi box that has an Windows Server 2008R2 VM which has some NFS shares. &nbsp;These shares were mounted as storage in ESXi. &nbsp;Unfortunately, I made the mistake of changing the IP address of the Windows VM and now, not only have I lost access to those NFS shares, I also cannot mount or unmount the old shares. &nbsp;Unfortunately, I don't know the old IP addess (I switch from DHCP to static IP). &nbsp;I tried to list the shares in ESXi using the command esxcfg-nas -l, so I can manually unmount them, but I get an error which says it cannot resolve the hostname. &nbsp;And anything I try to do to add a new NFS share gives me that same message - even if I try to add a share on another server with a different hostname.<br />
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Any help would be appreciated.
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Hi, I have a ESXi box that has an Windows Server 2008R2 VM which has some NFS shares.  These shares were mounted as storage in ESXi.  Unfortunately, I made the mistake of changing the IP address of the Windows VM and now, not only have I lost access to those NFS shares, I also cannot mount or unmount the old shares.  Unfortunately, I don't know the old IP addess (I switch from DHCP to static IP).  I tried to list the shares in ESXi using the command esxcfg-nas -l, so I can manually unmount them, but I get an error which says it cannot resolve the hostname.  And anything I try to do to add a new NFS share gives me that same message - even if I try to add a share on another server with a different hostname.

Any help would be appreciated.

ESXi 5.0 NFS Problem

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.