topic 8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support in Simulator Discussions

8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support

Evijfvinkel — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 04:12:42 GMT

I couldn't find any information on the web about Vaai support on the NetApp Ontap simulators.
In my vLab i have singel node installed with a NFS export to a vSphere 6.0 farm. All the ESXi servers have de NFS VaaI plugin installed, but on the datastore "Hardware Acceleration" is still not supported.
Does anyone know if Vaai is support/availible on a 8.3 simulator?

Re: 8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support

shatfield — Thu, 28 May 2015 15:50:51 GMT

It works, but you have to enable it on the SVM. Then remount the datastore or bounce the host.

Re: 8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support

Evijfvinkel — Thu, 28 May 2015 17:01:38 GMT

Thank you for the reply. Any change you know how to enable it?

Re: 8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support

shatfield — Thu, 28 May 2015 20:04:52 GMT

This will list all the vservers and tell you which ones have it disabled:

vserver nfs show -fields vstorage

Then turn it on where appropriate:

vserver nfs mod -vstorage enabled -vserver <vserver name>

Re: 8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support

Evijfvinkel — Fri, 29 May 2015 07:14:14 GMT

Thank you for the help. It is indeed active.
Where i can find this information on my own?

Re: 8.3 Simulator NFS VaaI Support

shatfield — Fri, 29 May 2015 14:18:42 GMT

Its in the install guide, which is one of the links you scroll past on the download page before you get to the license aggreement:

http://mysupport.netapp.com/NOW/download/software/nfs_plugin_vaai/1.0.21/