topic Re: NVE on NFS vols as vmware datastores in VMware Solutions Discussions

NVE on NFS vols as vmware datastores

Silverfuel — Wed, 04 Jun 2025 12:22:31 GMT

We plan to ugprade to Ontap 9.3 on our 8020 controllers so we can enable NVE on CIFS nad NFS volumes.

From what I can tell, it is possible to enable NVE on NFS datastores. Does anyone do it? Did you encrypt existing vols or created new vols? Was there any performance degradation?

Re: NVE on NFS vols as vmware datastores

SpindleNinja — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:09:00 GMT

You can enable NVE on any volume on ONTAP encluding ones that are used as VMware Datastores.

I have done both for customers, new and convert. Starting on 9.3 you can now convert inplace, which I find easier to do.

https://docs.netapp.com/ontap-9/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.netapp.doc.pow-nve%2FGUID-EAD13D8E-0219-45B6-A2C6-B25B76C9CA1A.html

VERY Minimal performace impact (it's not zero, so i'll say minimal) I have not one customer notice it on their boxes.

Re: NVE on NFS vols as vmware datastores

Silverfuel — Tue, 23 Jul 2019 17:30:12 GMT

awesome, thanks!