ESX 4 - mounting CIFS, not appearing is not under storage

Hello, I try to mount a CIFS share on an ESX 4.0 host. The CIFS share is on a San, which is not certified for NFS. I want to store vmdk on the SAN files. The SAN will be mirrored off site soon, so my virtual machines are stored.

Basically I see not the CIFS share under storage VMWare vSphere Client.

I ran the following command.

mkdir/mnt/cifs

Mount - t cifs //SANName/Sharename/mnt/ASR o username = SANUSER, domain = ABC

He asked for a password.

When I type mount I see that it is properly mounted.

According to me, Miss me a step.

CIFS is not taken in charge of Protocol for the Assembly of your storage space to run virtual machines, you can ride as you noted with the Service Console, but it must be used to store virtual machines and so it is not visible by the host ESX, only NFS, FC/iSCSI is supported.

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