We have a few NFS-based datastores (Server for NFS on Windows) that become inactive whenever we have to reboot the hosting server. The only ways I can find to get the datastores to become active again are 1) restart the ESXi host, 2) unmount and remount the datastore in ESXi or vCenter, and 3) wait and it will apparently reactivate at some point on its own. All of these have drawbacks. #2 is the fastest I've found, but whenever I do that, I lose the vCenter permissions on the datastore, so I have to spend time reassigning permissions to ensure that users aren't able to accidentally create VMs on there. Is there a different way to explicitly reactivate inactive NFS datastores without unmounting? Or, alternatively, is there a way to force #3 to happen more quickly?
Thanks
Mike
