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NFS4.1 Strange Conditions

Hi guys,

Not sure if anyone have an Idea. i'am pretty stucked at that point.

what i'am trying to archive is to use NFS based on 4.x  with Vmware


based on Redhat,.. NF3 has lots of limitations, especially once doing HA Designs,...

  1. 6.2. NFS - Red Hat Customer Portal

so i just tried first Steps to go with latest 6.7 Setup,......   and to use the 4.1 NFS mount.

if i upload an ISO to that mounted NFS Datastore,..... upload works fine and all good.

But once i want to migrate a Test VM from Local Datastore to that Test NFS 4.1 > getting strange condtions. Failes with Error

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and inside the NFS MountPoint i see the sVmotion create 3x more Folder:

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it's creating 4 Folders.g

Based on readings  NFS Server will use  pnfs  as default once  4.1 Protocol is getting used. But as Vmware not fully integrated PNFS "just kinda multipath", this sounds like bit of incompatibility somehow.

vSphere 6 NFS4.1 does not include parallel striping! – @hansdeleenheer


PNFS sounds like would be amazing Feature if fully integrated

May anyone fighting with this as well?

for NFS Server i use

Gluster 5.1   and nfs-ganesha  2.7

If i mount based on NFS3 > all works.  just with NFS4.1  strange Conditions

Best regards

Max

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