NFS Client Deployment Guide#

The following instructions are for deploying the NFS Client.

Prerequisites#

This guide is written for a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 8 based operating system which is operating within a cluster of systems and the following are the prerequisites:

References#

Instructions are based on the following documentation:
https://www.server-world.info/en/note?os=Rocky_Linux_8&p=nfs&f=2

Deployment Scripts#

An example bash script of the instructions has been provided: deploy-nfs-client.sh

Deployment Steps#

Note

Instructions assume execution using the root account.

Warning

When NFS mounting the /home directory ensure that only one mount for /home is defined in /etc/fstab.

  1. Install required NFS client packages:

dnf -y install nfs-utils

  1. Set the Domain Name:

Important

Replace engwsc.example.com with the domain name of your network.

sed -i 's/#Domain = local.domain.edu/Domain = engwsc.example.com/g' /etc/idmapd.conf

  1. Create local directories:

mkdir -p /app
mkdir -p /home
mkdir -p /scratch

  1. Add the NFS mounts to /etc/fstab to enable them at boot:

Important

Replace engwsc.example.com with the domain name of your network.

cat >> /etc/fstab <<EOL

# NFS Mounts
nfs01.engwsc.example.com:/srv/nfs/app     /app     nfs4 defaults,tcp,soft,nfsvers=4 0 0
nfs01.engwsc.example.com:/srv/nfs/home    /home    nfs4 defaults,tcp,soft,nfsvers=4 0 0
nfs01.engwsc.example.com:/srv/nfs/scratch /scratch nfs4 defaults,tcp,soft,nfsvers=4 0 0

EOL

  1. Reload fstab in systemd:

systemctl daemon-reload

  1. Mount the NFS paths:

mount /app
mount /home
mount /scratch