Most of my experience with vSphere storage has revolved around various block storage technologies, such as DAS, FC and iSCSI. I recently began an evaluation of one of those fresh new storage startups running an NVMe-based system. We didn’t have the infrastructure to support NVMe-oF in our lab, so we’ve used NFS to connect the datastores to our vSphere environment. Obviously, at this point, it is less about maximum performance and more about basic functionality. In any case, I thought it might be useful to include a series of links regarding NFS and vSphere that I’ve been using to both get up and running, and troubleshoot some minor issues we had getting everything running. Note that most of these links cover vSphere 6.5, as our lab is currently running that version.
Basics
How to add NFS export to VMware ESXi 6.5
Best Practice
Best Practices for running VMware vSphere on Network Attached Storage
Troubleshooting
Maximum supported volumes reached (1020652)
Troubleshooting connectivity issues to an NFS datastore on ESX and ESXi hosts (1003967)