topic Re: Turning on NFS in ONTAP Discussions

Turning on NFS

TimmyT — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:31:31 GMT

Hi, So running 9.5 and just wondering about NFS. We currently are using iSCSI but it is proving to be a pain. When I take a look I can see that the NFS service is created and running but no NFS LIFS are found. If I go and create LIFS to associate with NFS will it have an impact on the current iSCSI configuration\performance?

Re: Turning on NFS

SpindleNinja — Wed, 22 May 2019 21:03:15 GMT

Do you have a seperate NFS SVM/vserver created?

Re: Turning on NFS

TimmyT — Wed, 22 May 2019 21:44:25 GMT

No I don't. From what I can see under the SVMs is that NFS is allowed with CIFS and iSCSI.

Re: Turning on NFS

SpindleNinja — Wed, 22 May 2019 22:06:04 GMT

They run over IP.

I would create a seperate NFS SVM, so you can tinker and not worry about doing anything to your prod iSCSI. Let me know if you need assist on doing that.

Re: Turning on NFS

TimmyT — Wed, 22 May 2019 22:54:04 GMT

Thanks, I'll go this direction and see how it goes.