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Low throughput for NFS datastores on VMware ESXi host

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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.

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