When using NFS storage, you need to know how to activate the offload, which is what we will be doing in the following sections.
We need an NFS datastore. What is more important is that you inserted the Storage APIs of your storage vendor into your ESXi servers for making operations on NFSdatastores faster, (refer to the See also section).
Log in to vCloud as
SysAdmin
.Navigate to Manage & Monitor | Datastores and Datastore clusters.
Right-click on the NFS datastore and select Properties.
Check the box next to Enable VAAI fast provisioning.
Click on OK.
vStorage APIs for Array Integration (VAAI) is basically part of the storage API of your Storage vendor and lets you offload certain operations from the ESXi host onto the storage backend. This all works only if your storage array also supports VAAI.
For instance, if you are using NetApp, you can integrate your NFS storage with ESXi. Operations such as creating...