We've built our first small VMware lab for messing around on.
We have two networked hosts but no free shared storage.
Decided to use a folder on a physical hard drive on a physical Windows 2012 server as a NFS share.
Share created - no problem.
Using vSphere Client version 6.5.0.10000:
Create new datastore, target NFS share - no problem.
Mount the datastore on both hosts - no problem.
Browse the datastore, create folders, move some files around - no problem.
At this point I assume my datastore is fully operational and I all required permissions are in place.
However - every time I try to create a new VM and target this datastore it fails with the following (slightly truncated for privacy) error:
Unable to load configuration file '/vmfs/volumes/....-0000-000000000000/New Virtual Machine/New Virtual Machine.vmx'.
To Google! was the cry - but I've failed to find any joyful nuggets of information on there
Can anyone help? Please?