Making operations on NFS datastores faster
When using NFS storage, you need to know how to activate the offload, which is what we will be doing in the following sections.
Getting ready
We need an NFS datastore. What is more important is that you inserted the Storage APIs of your storage vendor into your ESXi servers for making operations on NFSdatastores faster, (refer to the See also section).
How to do it...
- Log in to vCloud as
SysAdmin. - Navigate to Manage & Monitor | Datastores and Datastore clusters.
- Right-click on the NFS datastore and select Properties.
- Check the box next to Enable VAAI fast provisioning.
- Click on OK.
How it works...
vStorage APIs for ...
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