VAAI support for NFS in VMware ESXi 6.x?

[RegularJoe]

Hi,

I am wondering if there is support or planned support for VAAI with NFS in VMware ESXi? If not could this be a pay module where customers can pay $100 per server per site to run VAAI on FreeNAS? I assume this would be bundled with TrueNAS.

Thanks,
Joe

 

[Mlovelace]

VAAI is supported in trueNAS/freeNAS only via iSCSI. There isn't planned support for it via NFS from what I've been able to find.

 

[Mlovelace]

Here is a link to the original feature request that was submitted. https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/3118 It appears that no one else has opened another feature request to support VAAI/NAS and not just VAAI/BLOCK. If you decide to open a ticket please link it here so others who are interested can also follow and comment.

 

[Jon K]

Would also very much like VAAI/NFS

 

[Mlovelace]

Would also very much like VAAI/NFS

The devs don't read the forums. You'll need to open a feature request on their bug ticketing system. https://bugs.freenas.org/projects/freenas

 

[enoch85]

Just as a reference: https://bugs.freenas.org/issues/19361

And yes, this would be very nice to have!

 

[wblock]

VMware calls VAAI for NFS "VAAI for NAS". This feature will be available in TrueNAS, the commercial version of FreeNAS, beginning with 9.10.2.

 

[dlavigne]

Notes that this feature is being removed for TrueNAS 11.1-U6. This does not affect VAAI iSCSI which is fully supported and certified for TrueNAS.

 

[RegularJoe]

I have never had an issue with NFS v3 on FreeNAS. I guess I have to move the SMB users over to iSCSI with VMware. iSCSI on VMware is much more complex and with 10gig not worth it. I would hope iXsystems allows us to pay for that plugin for FreeNAS

 

[dlavigne]

To be clear, it is the 3 VAAI NFS primitives defined by VMware that are not supported, not NFS itself. This is mostly due to the primitive definitions not understanding ZFS.