Good afternoon,
I´m running some tests and now I built a CentOS 6 with NFS 4.1 as a NAS.
Some lines from CentOS /var/log/messages:
rpc.statd[1623]: Version 1.2.3 starting
sm-notify[1624]: Version 1.2.3 starting
kernel: RPC: Registered named UNIX socket transport module.
kernel: RPC: Registered udp transport module.
kernel: RPC: Registered tcp transport module.
kernel: RPC: Registered tcp NFSv4.1 backchannel transport module.
kernel: Installing knfsd (copyright (C) 1996 okir@monad.swb.de).
rpc.mountd[1720]: Version 1.2.3 starting
kernel: NFSD: Using /var/lib/nfs/v4recovery as the NFSv4 state recovery directory
kernel: NFSD: starting 90-second grace period
If I mount it from a Linux box, it works just fine:
# mount.nfs4 <nfs_fqdn>:/ /media
# mount
....
<nfs_fqdn>:/ on /media type nfs4 (rw,addr=192.168.X.X,clientaddr=192.168.X.Y)
Now, if I try mounting it from an ESXi 6 host, I get the following message:
An error occurred during host configuration.
Operation failed, diagnostics report: Sysinfo error on operation returned status : Timeout. Please see the VMkernel log for detailed error information
Some lines from vmkernel.log:
NFS41: NFS41_VSIMountSet:402: Mount server: <server_hostname>, port: 2049, path: /nfs, label: NFSv4, security: 1 user: , options: <none>
StorageApdHandler: 982: APD Handle Created with lock[StorageApd-0x430694551140]
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41ExidNFSProcess:2022: Server doesn't support the NFS 4.1 protocol
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41ExidNFSProcess:2022: Server doesn't support the NFS 4.1 protocol
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FSWaitForCluster:3433: Failed to wait for the cluster to be located: Timeout
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_FSMount:4412: NFS41FSDoMount failed: Timeout
StorageApdHandler: 1066: Freeing APD handle 0x430694551140
StorageApdHandler: 1150: APD Handle freed!
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41_VSIMountSet:410: NFS41_FSMount failed: Timeout
Has anyone ever configured a Linux box as a NFS v4.1 endpoint for vSphere before?
Thank you very much
Well, the problem was exactly as described:
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41ExidNFSProcess:2022: Server doesn't support the NFS 4.1 protocol
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41ExidNFSProcess:2022: Server doesn't support the NFS 4.1 protocol
My Linux box´s kernel did not support NFS 4.1, only 4.0.
Solution was upgrading the distro.
Thanks for the attention.
Well, the problem was exactly as described:
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41ExidNFSProcess:2022: Server doesn't support the NFS 4.1 protocol
WARNING: NFS41: NFS41ExidNFSProcess:2022: Server doesn't support the NFS 4.1 protocol
My Linux box´s kernel did not support NFS 4.1, only 4.0.
Solution was upgrading the distro.
Thanks for the attention.