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OTV 10.X - NFS Datastore provisioning Mount Failure

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Applies to

  • ONTAP Tools for VMware vSphere 10.5.x

Issue

  • ESXi hosts are unable to mount NFS datastore provision via ONTAP Tools for VMware (OTV) version 10.5.
  • Manual mounting of NFS datastores is successful, but automatic provisioning through OTV fails.
  • In OTV 10.x, the first available NFS data LIF is selected automatically, which may not the NFS data LIF has access.

logs:

2025-10-15T03:02:46.101Z DEBUG {"file":"/app/datastore-service/pkg/handlers/ontap/ontap_storage_handler.go:303","jobId":"7692","message":"Network Interface Response: [{...} ***.***.***.*** ****-prod-nfs-lif1 ...]"}
2025-10-15T03:02:46.105Z INFO {"jobId":"7692","message":"Selected LIF for mount: ***.***.***.*** (****-nonprod-nfs-lif1)"}
2025-10-15T03:02:46.110Z ERROR {"jobId":"7692","message":"Mount attempt failed: ESXi host does not have network access to selected LIF."}

 

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