NFSv4.1 cohesity backup failures with NFS4ERR_DELAY on ONTAP
Applies to
- ONTAP 9.x
- NFSv4.1
- Cohesity
Issue
- Backup jobs targeting NFSv4.1 volumes on ONTAP fail with error
NFS4ERR_DELAY. - Failures are observed specifically when using the Cohesity backup tool with NFSv4.1, however backups succeed with NFSv3.
- Error message:
[kRetry]: OP_READDIR during Readdir failed with error NFS4ERR_DELAY - Export policy, NFSv4.1 enablement, v4-numeric-ids, and LDAP configuration are correct and match with working SVMs.
