To grant access of a Dell Unity XT provisioned NFS datastore to an ESXi host, the permission level required for the host depends on the NFS protocol and authentication method used by the NAS server. For NFSv4 with Kerberos NFS owner authentication, the ESXi host must have the Read/write, enable Root permission level. This allows the ESXi host to read and write data to the datastore, as well as perform administrative tasks such as creating and deleting virtual machines. The Read/write permission level alone is not sufficient, as it does not allow the ESXihost to perform root-level operations on the datastore. The Read-only permission level only allows the ESXi host to read data from the datastore, but not write or modify it. References: Dell EMC Unity: Configuring hosts to access NFS1, page 9.