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[Documentation](../../README.md#documentation) → Usage → NFS
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[Читать на русском](nfs.ru.md)
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# NFS
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Vitastor has a simplified NFS 3.0 proxy for file-based image access emulation. It's not
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suitable as a full-featured file system, at least because all file/image metadata is stored
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in etcd and kept in memory all the time - thus you can't put a lot of files in it.
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However, NFS proxy is totally fine as a method to provide VM image access and allows to
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plug Vitastor into, for example, VMWare. It's important to note that for VMWare it's a much
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better access method than iSCSI, because with iSCSI we'd have to put all VM images into one
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Vitastor image exported as a LUN to VMWare and formatted with VMFS. VMWare doesn't use VMFS
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over NFS.
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NFS proxy is stateless if you use immediate_commit=all mode (for SSD with capacitors or
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HDDs with disabled cache), so you can run multiple NFS proxies and use a network load
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balancer or any failover method you want to in that case.
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vitastor-nfs usage:
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```
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vitastor-nfs [--etcd_address ADDR] [OTHER OPTIONS]
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--subdir <DIR> export images prefixed <DIR>/ (default empty - export all images)
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--portmap 0 do not listen on port 111 (portmap/rpcbind, requires root)
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--bind <IP> bind service to <IP> address (default 0.0.0.0)
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--nfspath <PATH> set NFS export path to <PATH> (default is /)
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--port <PORT> use port <PORT> for NFS services (default is 2049)
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--pool <POOL> use <POOL> as default pool for new files (images)
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--foreground 1 stay in foreground, do not daemonize
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```
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Example start and mount commands:
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```
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vitastor-nfs --etcd_address 192.168.5.10:2379 --portmap 0 --port 2050 --pool testpool
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```
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```
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mount localhost:/ /mnt/ -o port=2050,mountport=2050,nfsvers=3,soft,nolock,tcp
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```
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