August 8, 20232 yr I have an all flash/all nvme zfs disk pool that I have a nfs share presenting out to an ESXi host for a work/homelab project I'm doing. The NFS mount keeps dropping and I cannot figure out why. Hopefully there is something in the logs. beast-diagnostics-20230808-0848.zip
August 8, 20232 yr It's difficult for us to help you since LT does not support anything associated with ESXI and we don't know much about it. Since ESXI is mounting Unraid shares with NFS, it would be best to loook at the ESXI for answers. One thing to confirm is that ESXI is mounting the shares with NFSv4. I saw in your log where NFSv4 was being used on a share, so maybe that's not a problem. In general the reliability of NFS connections are affected by the followng: Version of NFS being used. Networking issues. Robust NFS requires a solid network. Options used when mounting NFS clients can affect the reliability of the connection and error recovery.
August 8, 20232 yr Author 3 hours ago, dlandon said: It's difficult for us to help you since LT does not support anything associated with ESXI and we don't know much about it. Since ESXI is mounting Unraid shares with NFS, it would be best to loook at the ESXI for answers. One thing to confirm is that ESXI is mounting the shares with NFSv4. I saw in your log where NFSv4 was being used on a share, so maybe that's not a problem. In general the reliability of NFS connections are affected by the followng: Version of NFS being used. Networking issues. Robust NFS requires a solid network. Options used when mounting NFS clients can affect the reliability of the connection and error recovery. ESXi is mounting the share with nfs 4.1, that much I know for sure, it works for a while, as long as I'm actively doing stuff it seems to stay connected, but once I walk away for the night and it's just running, even with a vm on it, it seems to time out.
August 8, 20232 yr Author I did drop a question over on vmware's community forums. https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-SDDC-Members/NFS-MOUNT-PRESENTED-TO-ESXI-KEEPS-DROPPING/m-p/2981374#M217 Edited August 8, 20232 yr by eagle470
August 8, 20232 yr Author the issue is that I'm doing an rsync to that server to copy data to it. I'm consuming the entire 10Gb of that server's NIC. https://communities.vmware.com/t5/Cloud-SDDC-Members/NFS-MOUNT-PRESENTED-TO-ESXI-KEEPS-DROPPING/m-p/2981453/highlight/false#M218
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