Top ESXi known issues/workarounds/best practices for NFSv4.1
Applies to
- ESX/ESXi
- NFSv4.1
Answer
Top ESXi known issues/workarounds/best practices for NFSv4.1
- Does ONTAP support NFSv4.1 Session Trunking?
- VMware Defects
- VMware defect PR 2458186
- Issue with the the NFSv4 Client id recovery after server failure
- Fixed since ESXi 6.7P04 and in all supported releases
- Netapp KB:
- VMware defect PR 2458186
- IPv6 mounted volumes with
AUTH_SYS
security flavor might become inaccessible after performing Non-disruptive Operations (NDO). The occurrence is sporadic; and in this period of time, IO might be stalled on the respective volumes.- Workaround:
- The user has to unmount the inaccessible volume and remount it.
- Note: IPv6 with
SEC_KRB5
security flavor is not a supported configuration by VMware.
- Workaround:
- Storage Failover causes issues on some VM's
Additional Information
- Best Practice:
- For more information, see TR-4597 VMware vSphere with ONTAP