Set Up Windows 2003 R2 NFS Server for VMware ESXi Backups

Generally my preference is to use Linux as an NFS server.  On the internet you will see frequent reference to the belief that NFS works better on Linux/UNIX.  Recently I decided to try and set up NFS services on Windows to see how well it would perform.  In this tutorial I will set up Services for UNIX 3.5 on a Windows 2003 R2 server and configure it using the User Name Mapping service to allow a VMware ESXi to use it as a datastore...

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Quick configuration of NFS

NFS Consists of the following:/etc/exports –> /etc/exports contains all the NFS shares/usr/sbin/exportfs -r#exportfs -r is used to synchronize nfsd in memory with the /etc/exports file#Use exportfs -v to see which shares nfsd is currently exporting/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfslock - which has 2 parts/sbin/rpc.lockd/sbin/rpc.statd/etc/rc.d/init.d/nfs - which has 3 parts/usr/sbin/rpc.rquotad/usr/sbin/rpc.mountd/usr/sbin/rpc.nfsdAt bare minimum you need to have portmap (or portmapper), mountd (or rpc.mountd), and nfsd (or rpc.nfsd) running; otherwise...

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