Connecting the NFS storage

Originally developed by Sun Microsystems, Network File System (NFS) is probably one of the most popular file sharing protocols to this day. Currently at version 4, an NFS share allows storage of all Proxmox file types, such as disk images, ISO templates, OpenVZ containers, and more. Almost all virtual or physical network environments around the globe implement some form NFS storage.

In this section, we are going to see how to connect an NFS share with a Proxmox cluster.

Getting ready

In order to connect an NFS share, the share must first be created on the shared storage system. Follow the documentation of the storage you are using to create a NFS share. For our example, we created a share named pmx-nfs on the FreeNAS shared storage.

There are four versions of NFS to date. Version mismatches between NFS servers and client nodes can cause connectivity issues. By default, Proxmox uses a version 3 NFS client. If you're unsure of which version is being used for a NFS share...