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This is comforting. &nbsp;Ok thanks a lot for this information:-)
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This is comforting.  Ok thanks a lot for this information:-)

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Ok so the title sounds obvious as to what would happen...badness, but in my case none of the hosts are actually running VMs off of this NFS data store, I just use it to copy and paste manual backups of VMs.<br />
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But I am wondering if the hosts would still freeze or crash if I took the NAS that is serving up this NFS store down for maintenance? &nbsp;Only because the hosts are attached to it under the storage options.<br />
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Anyway, maybe a stupid question, but I just want to make sure.<br />
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Thanks
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Ok so the title sounds obvious as to what would happen...badness, but in my case none of the hosts are actually running VMs off of this NFS data store, I just use it to copy and paste manual backups of VMs.

But I am wondering if the hosts would still freeze or crash if I took the NAS that is serving up this NFS store down for maintenance?  Only because the hosts are attached to it under the storage options.

Anyway, maybe a stupid question, but I just want to make sure.

Thanks

ESXI host and effects of NFS data-store going offline.

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