WARNING: NFS: 898: RPC error 13 (RPC was aborted due to timeout)

vikash_roy — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:20:53 GMT

I am trying to mount NFS datastore on vSphare 4.0 from my netapp sim 7.3 version and I am getting following error message while mounting under vmkernel

WARNING: NFS: 898: RPC error 13 (RPC was aborted due to timeout) trying to get port for Mount Program (100005) Version (3) Protocol (TCP) on Server (10.1.101.124)

[root@xxx ~]# esxcfg-route
VMkernel default gateway is 10.4.100.1
[root@xxx ~]# vmkping -D
PING 10.4.100.140 (10.4.100.140): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.4.100.140: icmp_seq=0 ttl=64 time=0.434 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.100.140: icmp_seq=1 ttl=64 time=0.049 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.100.140: icmp_seq=2 ttl=64 time=0.046 ms

--- 10.4.100.140 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.046/0.176/0.434 ms

PING 10.4.100.1 (10.4.100.1): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 10.4.100.1: icmp_seq=0 ttl=255 time=0.999 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.100.1: icmp_seq=1 ttl=255 time=0.837 ms
64 bytes from 10.4.100.1: icmp_seq=2 ttl=255 time=0.763 ms

--- 10.4.100.1 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max = 0.763/0.866/0.999 ms

[root@xxx]# ping 10.1.101.124
PING 10.1.101.124 (10.1.101.124) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from 10.1.101.124: icmp_seq=1 ttl=254 time=0.507 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.101.124: icmp_seq=2 ttl=254 time=0.554 ms
64 bytes from 10.1.101.124: icmp_seq=3 ttl=254 time=0.644 ms

--- 10.1.101.124 ping statistics ---
3 packets transmitted, 3 received, 0% packet loss, time 1999ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 0.507/0.568/0.644/0.060 ms

netappsim1> exportfs
/vol/vol0/home -sec=sys,rw,nosuid
/vol/vol0 -sec=sys,rw,anon=0,nosuid
/vol/vol1 -sec=sys,rw,root=10.4.130.17

Can anyone provide me help what I might be doing wrong?

Re: WARNING: NFS: 898: RPC error 13 (RPC was aborted due to timeout)

adamfox — Thu, 03 Dec 2009 15:49:55 GMT

You can try turning on the option nfs.mountd.trace and watch the console as you try to mount it and see if anything shows up.

This might give you a clue.

Re: WARNING: NFS: 898: RPC error 13 (RPC was aborted due to timeout)

vikash_roy — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 14:25:43 GMT

I have solved it and update here all the detail

http://vikashkumarroy.blogspot.com/2009/12/rpc-error-13.html

In nutshell : vmkernel IP should be in subnet thats of NFS server.

Thanks,

Vikash

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