NFSv4 Dell Unity Questions/Concerns

Question

So, I'm tasked with going down the rabbit hole of configuring NFSv4 within my environment that currently is usin NFSv3.

Firstly, I would like to know if someone on here has maybe a cheat sheet onhow they configured NFSv4, connecting to an AD realm and KDC. A cheat sheet of some kind if someone documented their steps would be good.

Lastly, I have a few questions/concerns in general about NFSv4.

1. What was the reason for you traisitioing from NFSv3 to NFSV4?

2. DId you have any issues with NFSv4 once implemented?

3. Are there any 'gotchas' I need to be aware of if I"m going to be implementing NFSv4, things to be concerned with for losing access or something to NFSv3 shares?

4. Was NFSv4 worth the change?

I'm just looking for some advice, reason why not, reason why too move to NFSv4 etc..

marshit · Answer

Something else I forgot to ask and more impotant than anything else is, what needs to change on the Linux host if anything once NFSv4 is enabled?

I WILL NOT be creating a LInux based Kerberos realm, I'm going to lean on our existing Active Directory based KDC server.

I have 100's of Linux clients and so I"m hoping I don't need to make a change on ALL of them in order to work with NFSv4. My thought is it's simply re-mounting shares with the "nfsv4" syntax.

I hope!!??

DELL-Sam L · Answer

Hello marshit, Here are a couple of links to some kb’s that maybe of assistance. https://dell.to/3sRtoLT https://dell.to/3sNXDDA

marshit · Answer

The second link is a terrible guide that provides absolutely no detail for NFSv4 configuration. I don't need help configuring NFS, I need information on NFSv4 setup specifically.

Also, the first link I'm not sure what that is showing, is there supposed ot be some guide attached or something, because there is not.

These KB's offer no help and I'm surprised you provided these based on what I asked. The product is lacking highly tehcnical guides, most Unity guides are vague and only provide a very low level bit of information. This is a larger problem of coure in comparison to NetApp so we won't tackle that now.

But nevertheless these links didn't offer me any value.

marshit · Answer

@DELL-Sam L I will seemingly just use NetApps guide since Dell has nothing to offer in this regard.

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