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Problems mounting an NFS using Vcenter 5.1

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I've been experiencing a problem with NFS and vcenter.  We're using Veeam for backups and one feature (SureBackups) uses NFS to do its testing.  About three weeks ago I started getting errors with the sureback jobs saying it couldn't mount the NFS:

Error: Unable to mount vPower NFS volume (VEEAMCDP:/VeeamBackup_VEEAMCDP). VeeamCDP.domain.local: An error occurred during host configuration.

In Vcenter I get this cooresponding error:
NFS mount VeeamCDP.cunj.local:/VeeamBackup_VEEAMCDP failed: Unable to connect to NFS server.

I've been going back and fourth with Veeam support and they are saying this is a problem on the vmware side...I get the same error when trying to mount the volume using vmware.  A lot of this is new to me so I'm working to figure it out while trying to solve the problem.  I'd really appreciate any guidance on what to try next.
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