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NFS v3 and version 4.1

NFS v3 and version 4.1 - vSphere Tutorial

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NFS v3 and version 4.1

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- [Rick] In this video, I'll break down NFS versions 3 and NFS version 4.1, and explain how both are implemented differently. So let's start by looking at NFS version 3. The first characteristic of NFS version 3 is that the traffic between the ESXI host and the network attached storage device is all unencrypted. So as my virtual machine is creating scuzzy commands, they're being pushed down onto this storage network between the ESXI host and the network file system server. And so that traffic is all going to be unencrypted as it traverses the physical network with NFS version 3, and so therefore, with NFS version 3, we only want to utilize this on a trusted network. NFS version 3 uses a single connection for I/O, and only a single IP address can be used for the NFS server. This can make load balancing quite difficult because load balancing is typically accomplished by using the IP Hash load balancing policy. But if…

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