How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

In this blog, I will show you how to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE. Creating a Network File System (NFS) share on TrueNAS CORE gives the benefit of making lots of data easily available for anyone with share access. Depending how the share is setup, users accessing the share can be restricted to read or write privileges.

How to install of TrueNAS CORE.

NFS allows users to mount all or a section of a file system throughout the network. The share section of the file system that is mounted would be accessed by clients with have permissions like read only or read/write.

How to share file/directory via NFS in TrueNAS.

Type the TrueNAS server IP address in the browser.
TrueNAS CORE OS supports OS X, Unix, and Windows clients and various virtualizations VMware.
To configure NFS share on TrueNAS, please follow below steps.

Login to TrueNAS CORE

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

TureNAS CORE dashboard.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Select the services tab and then enable NFS service.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Choose storage option and then disks to check your disks.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Under storage choose pools and then click on ADD button.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Choose create new pool and then choose create pool.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Type name and then choose disk the one you would like to use for NFS share.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Click on forward arrow key and then click create.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Select confirm and click create pool.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

A pool successfully created.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

To configure NFS share choose the Unix Shares (NFS) option and then click on ADD button.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Enter a path, select All dirs option, choose enabled and then click advanced mode.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Maproot User – Select root
Maproot Group – Select nogroup
Authorized Network – type your network address and then click SUBMIT

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

NFS path created.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Now we configure on TrueNas CORE. Now we can Add NFS shared to VMware Host as a datastore. Log in to VMware vsphere client.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Right-click, on ESXi Host, click Storage and then New datastore.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Select NFS datastore and click next.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Select NFS version and then click next.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Enter Datastore Name, NFS share folder, NFS server IP, and then click next.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Review the summary and click finish.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Successfully created datastore.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

Now we can see TrueNAS-NAS on storage list.

Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE, How to Configure NFS Share in TrueNAS CORE

For more details please visit TrueNas

Jamil Parvez
Jamil Parvezhttps://www.xpertstec.com
Jamil Pervez works as a Network Administrator, based in Kuwait with a Primary focus on Microsoft technologies. Microsoft Certified MCSE, MCTP, MCITP, CCNP, CCIP, CCVP with 20 years of experience in administering Windows Servers, Exchange, VMWare, Veeam B&R, Veritas BackupExec.

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