ESXi 6 + FreeNAS 9.10 NFSv4.1

[David E]

Anyone get this working? I've been able to mount it from ESXi, but it always shows up as "Read-only", even though I definitely did not check the "Read only" checkbox at mount time. I didn't configure kerberos or anything fancy. Same mount works fine when mounted as v3.

 

[cyberjock]

I can't say I've seen this issue before, but I'm not aware of anything that NFSv4 brings to the table that would be useful with ESXi. So if it works with v3 I'd use v3. ;)

 

[zambanini]

freebsd does support nfs 4.1? that seems unlikely

 

[David E]

freebsd does support nfs 4.1? that seems unlikely

It does as of 10.X

 

[zambanini]

from my research, freebsd 10 only supports nfs 4.1 on the client side, but I don't want to hijack the thread.

 

[David E]

from my research, freebsd 10 only supports nfs 4.1 on the client side, but I don't want to hijack the thread.

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/47225/#post-263851
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=268115

 

[RegularJoe]

https://forums.freebsd.org/threads/47225/#post-263851
https://svnweb.freebsd.org/base?view=revision&revision=268115

Well, that nfs revision had a date on it :
Tue Jul 1 20:47:16 2014 UTC (2 years, 2 months ago)

so you would think that NFSv4.1 server and client would be possible. I am looking at this today and trying out some tests with the latest ESXi 6.0u2

It might mean I have to use Kerberos and not AUTH_SYS:
https://pubs.vmware.com/Release_Notes/en/vsphere/60/vsphere-esxi-60u2-release-notes.html

 

[JoeAtWork]

FreeBSD supports NFS 4, VMware has one setting that MUST be acknowledged from a NFS 4.x server to mount the disk as RW.

On the VMware side :
[root@localhost:/var/log] cat /var/log/vmkernel.log | grep "RECLAIM_COMPLETE FS"
2018-12-28T17:35:38.965Z cpu14:35760 opID=1a04ed8f)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FSCompleteMount:3601: RECLAIM_COMPLETE FS failed: Not supported; forcing read-only operation
[root@localhost:/var/log]

using FreeNAS 11.2u1
VMware ESXi 6.0 and 6.7

 

[SMnasMAN]

so is the answer that freenas does *not* support nfs 4.1 , currently (ie fn 11.1 or 11.2)? (also asking about nfs 4.1 , not nfs 4.0)
(i cant find a direct answer to this, and im assuming the reason ppl keep asking is to get mutipathing on esxi via nfs 4.1)

edit: wait, maybe FN does support nfs 4.1? this bug report mentions 4.1: https://redmine.ixsystems.com/issues/34204
anyone know? tks

 

[RegularJoe]

yes, multipath or multiple channels. I really do not want to run a linux machine or vm if I do not have to