How to troubleshoot: Unable to mount a volume using NFS in ONTAP 9
Applies to
- ONTAP 9
- Clients are unable to mount via NFS
- ESXi hosts
- Linux hosts
Description
- The following document can be used as a guide to troubleshoot when you are unable to mount an NFS volume to a linux/unix client.
- Before starting, it is important to have some basic configuration information about the environment, this will allow us to check the configuration of all items involved in the mount process.
- Vserver name:
- volume name - You can determine the volume if you have the junction path from the client.
- Before starting, it is important to have some basic configuration information about the environment, this will allow us to check the configuration of all items involved in the mount process.
- For example:
- if you are attempting to mount with a command similar to the following:
mount 10.61.92.47:/vol /mnt
- your junction path would be
/vol
::> vol show -junction-path /vol
- The LIF being used to mount - if you only have the IP address, the LIF information can be located by running the following command:
::> net int show -address <IP address>
- if you are attempting to mount with a command similar to the following: