An often asked question when implementing NFS based storage is what do these advanced settings represent you are recommending me to change?
VMware published a great KB article which describes these. For instance:
NFS.HeartbeatMaxFailures
The number of consecutive heartbeat requests that must fail before the server is marked as unavailable.
The KB article does not only explain the separate NFS settings but [...]
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Definition of the advanced NFS options
February 13th, 2010
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NetApp storage best practices revised!
November 25th, 2008
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About a week ago I wrote about the new version of the NetApp best practices pdf TR-3428. I emailed with Vaughn about the fact that leaving maintenance mode before the reboot might not be the smartest thing to do. Vaughn aggreed and replied that the document would be revised soon.
This would need to go through [...]
New version of the NetApp NFS best practices doc!
November 21st, 2008
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I just noticed that there’s a new version(4.3) of the NetApp on NFS best practices document online. This document has a new best practice in there that I discussed a couple of weeks ago about the “/NFS/LockDisable” and the “prefvmx.consolidateDeleteNFSLocks” settings(Page 14).
As far as I can judge at this point in time the document seems [...]
NFS.LockDisable what should it be 1 or 0
November 5th, 2008
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There has been a lot of discussion(check Scott’s take on this) around this advanced NFS setting called “NFS.LockDisable”. In short, you can disable the locking mechanism on NFS volumes with this setting.
In the past NetApp had a best practices document which stated that it should be disabled by setting it to “1″. But, as some [...]
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