Not sure exactly how we got in this situation, but I've been searching all over and have not found a solution.
I have an ESXi host with a couple datastores. One datastore is an NFS datastore that has a few archived VMs, about 20 TB worth. The datastore shows inactive in vCenter, but I cannot see it with esxcli storage nfs list
I can however add it back using CLI: esxcli storage nfs add -H <host-IP> -s /nfs/<share-name> -v <datastore-name>
Instead of the datastore name it pre-pends (1) after, so it's datastore-name (1). In the UI I then have the inactive datastore as well as the newly created "duplicate" datastore.
I've tried various things such as restarting services, disconnect/reconnect host from vCenter as well as the typical steps shown in other similar articles here and elsewhere on the web.
Some additional details:
NFS 4.1
NFS server is a Nasuni Filer which is online and files are readable.
The Filer then has a back end Object Storage system behind so the data is there, I just can't seem to get vCenter to recognize it anymore.
All archived VMs are powered off but listed as inaccessible at the moment.
Anyone have any other ideas or things I can check?
Thanks
