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Thread-Topic: Do you use NFS for ESXi 6.5 on old hardware? Thread-Index: AQHUHhvqpvoJywuD2E6JMeixmDRtBw== Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:20:45 +0000 Message-ID: Accept-Language: en-US Content-Language: en-US X-MS-Has-Attach: X-MS-TNEF-Correlator: authentication-results: spf=none (sender IP is ) smtp.mailfrom=rmacklem@uoguelph.ca; x-ms-publictraffictype: Email x-microsoft-exchange-diagnostics: 1; YTOPR0101MB1756; 7:Af1EM8RxMElojY5cOUqEAEOrAJA+u9+r8iXWk/t42r7KB4cGz5TaUvb9Uqb760flZYcFiBtMvGqTv8BPzMgtFLJx6/ZX7+pTRMA+oP1623Tt93W6k1ZRensILySzpKK4NuuRVTTzrg/8IXHbo+85tT9PqbWc0DE3i9VWcVYx3hiPypEWo/Rtn2xF9OwdUD4tzcxKhKHHJLvRNGI/M51HomzxV5J3iLcCkQJAiRV6mMX6JKKjYJ9aXLeszfX5Nv1T x-ms-exchange-antispam-srfa-diagnostics: SOS; x-ms-office365-filtering-correlation-id: 46d8855f-589b-40ae-1df8-08d5ec338ae8 x-microsoft-antispam: UriScan:; BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:(7020095)(4652040)(8989117)(5600053)(711020)(4534165)(4627221)(201703031133081)(201702281549075)(8990107)(2017052603328)(7153060)(7193020); SRVR:YTOPR0101MB1756; x-ms-traffictypediagnostic: YTOPR0101MB1756: x-microsoft-antispam-prvs: x-exchange-antispam-report-test: UriScan:(158342451672863); x-ms-exchange-senderadcheck: 1 x-exchange-antispam-report-cfa-test: BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:(6040522)(2401047)(8121501046)(5005006)(10201501046)(3231311)(944501410)(52105095)(3002001)(93006095)(93001095)(149027)(150027)(6041310)(20161123558120)(20161123560045)(20161123562045)(201703131423095)(201702281529075)(201702281528075)(20161123555045)(201703061421075)(201703061406153)(20161123564045)(6072148)(201708071742011)(7699016); SRVR:YTOPR0101MB1756; BCL:0; PCL:0; RULEID:; SRVR:YTOPR0101MB1756; x-forefront-prvs: 073631BD3D x-forefront-antispam-report: SFV:NSPM; SFS:(10009020)(396003)(39860400002)(346002)(366004)(376002)(136003)(189003)(199004)(74316002)(5660300001)(305945005)(33656002)(478600001)(6916009)(53936002)(74482002)(2906002)(81166006)(8676002)(81156014)(105586002)(8936002)(7696005)(106356001)(68736007)(9686003)(5250100002)(25786009)(316002)(786003)(55016002)(2900100001)(86362001)(26005)(486006)(186003)(97736004)(476003)(6506007)(14454004)(256004)(102836004)(6436002)(99286004); DIR:OUT; SFP:1101; SCL:1; SRVR:YTOPR0101MB1756; H:YTOPR0101MB0953.CANPRD01.PROD.OUTLOOK.COM; FPR:; SPF:None; LANG:en; PTR:InfoNoRecords; MX:1; A:1; received-spf: None (protection.outlook.com: uoguelph.ca does not designate permitted sender hosts) x-microsoft-antispam-message-info: LmG92aKBfUNcLYJDhTFIiN87SwJCTZBHFV1LHxYpvGlj+nkXwZi1nWxVVN44JKzOzVuRhcAQNPxnIoR8rtzZ+xonMmPMu50VXNxNY8PzgEVVDw1FpYirhnx8KYZpWK1R2WeKH48vhwT/xAN9NoQ66AFCkqk9WzccgXZCDMQJul1q15s5NsNuJ0deZiicjyewKAmgm1TFprhC9u/or5KTBkkMzfTd0ri0rdhYHZfGhJNOGsoRjf06vRs/5vXL3pVR1XTjwz2G1RVRzS8gIucqqorSUfVTLrf3SuNA0QotkDXN2fK8KaNmCDoY1Werkc6RpHWUtPIPtpGT7duk/hELqqPMgho16JDropCltNtULLY= spamdiagnosticoutput: 1:99 spamdiagnosticmetadata: NSPM Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable MIME-Version: 1.0 X-OriginatorOrg: uoguelph.ca X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-Network-Message-Id: 46d8855f-589b-40ae-1df8-08d5ec338ae8 X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-originalarrivaltime: 17 Jul 2018 22:20:46.0017 (UTC) X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-fromentityheader: Hosted X-MS-Exchange-CrossTenant-id: be62a12b-2cad-49a1-a5fa-85f4f3156a7d X-MS-Exchange-Transport-CrossTenantHeadersStamped: YTOPR0101MB1756 X-BeenThere: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.27 Precedence: list List-Id: Production branch of FreeBSD source code List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 22:20:48 -0000 Hi, Recent work has determines that ESXi 6.7 works much better with the FreeBSD= NFS server for NFSv4.1 than ESXi 6.5 does. (Once a patch not yet in head/curren= t is committed.) I don't think support for ESXi 6.5 for NFSv4.1 is practical. ESXi 6.5 can u= se NFSv3 or iSCSI to use a FreeBSD server. Apparently ESXi 6.7 will only work on newer hardware and I was just wonderi= ng if there is anyone negatively impacted by only supporting ESXi6.7 for NFSv4= .1? Thanks for your comments, rick