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Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

AUSILILEPIDA — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:04:28 GMT

Hi,

I want create 5 nodes Hyper-V cluster with windows 2012.

Can I make my Netapp NFS export as Shared Storage and how? I've read only about iscsi.

Thanks

Alessandro

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

RAVI_PALADUGU — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:06:35 GMT

Hi Andrea,

Answer: You cannot do NFS export on windows 2012.

Microsoft supports network-attached storage (NAS) for Hyper-V in Windows Server 2012 when using SMB 3.0. NFS-based storage is not supported.

The only supported shared storage on Hyper-V cluster with windows 2012 are:

1. Fibre Channel (FC) SAN Arrays

2. iSCSI SAN Arrays

3. SAS JBOD Enclosures with SAS Expanders

4. SMB 3.0 Shared Folders on a Windows Server 2012 file server or, preferably, by a Windows Server 2012 clustered file services role for continuous storage availability.

Best,

RK.

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

radek_kubka — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:38:15 GMT

4. SMB 3.0 Shared Folders on a Windows Server 2012 file server or, preferably, by a Windows Server 2012 clustered file services role for continuous storage availability.

It's worth to point out that Clustered ONTAP 8.2 brings support for SMB 3.0 (a.k.a. CIFS on steroids )

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

RAVI_PALADUGU — Tue, 23 Apr 2013 16:42:32 GMT

Nice point and great way to put it.

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

AUSILILEPIDA — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 08:48:58 GMT

Ok, thanks.

Can you tell me how point my shared folder? Or symply.. do you have a guide?

thanks

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

paulstringfellow — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 09:14:15 GMT

Hi Andrea,

Just out of interest are you looking to present NFS to Hyper-V not sure you can store your VM’s on NFS exports under hyper-v, you can present SMB3 shares to Hyper-V (not currently supported in ONTap but will be in OnTap 8.2) to host VM’s, but don’t think you can with NFS.

What are you hoping to achieve?

Regards

Paul.

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

RAVI_PALADUGU — Wed, 24 Apr 2013 12:17:50 GMT

Andrea,

Sorry, I didn't quite understand your question. Are you asking how to map a CIFS share to your windows server?

Regards,

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

genimattv — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:53:42 GMT

Hi Ravi,

I wouldn't mind the answer on mapping CIFS SMB shares to a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster. I am trying to do this in VMware vCloud at the moment.

Cheers, Matt.

Re: Netapp NFS in Hyper-V cluster

genimattv — Mon, 10 Mar 2014 19:55:25 GMT

Hi Paul,

Do you know if you can present SMB 3.0 shares in VMware to a Windows Server 2012 Failover Cluster.

Cheers, Matt.