Low throughput for NFS datastores on VMware ESXi host
Applies to
- ONTAP 9+
- VMware ESXi (any version)
- NFS
Issue
- Application throwing IO errors due to low throughput which is leading application to go to a hung state.
- From storage, latency appears to be in sub-milliseconds range.
- Benchmarking tools indicated low throughput from NFS datastores.