Virtual Machine Creation and failover fails on NFS 4.1 datastore

Products

• VMware Live Recovery

Issue/Introduction

• On the NFS 4.1 client the end-user will see a "Stale file handle" error message when Powering on VM's
• vSphere Replication cannot failover VM's on NFS 4.1 Datastore 
• Below traces are printed in vmkwarning and vmkernel.log

2024-07-24T13:37:46.894Z Wa(180) vmkwarning: cpu16:2098563)WARNING: NFS41: NFS41FileOpOpenFile:3627: Open of obj 0x4309b9fffb10 (fhID 0x52bb0b56) failed: Stale file handle

Environment

• ESXi 8.0 U2 with NFS 4.1
• vSphere Replication 8.X

Cause

FileHandle (FH) information mismatch noticed between attribute received and cache.

Resolution

Upgrade ESXi to 8.0 Update 3 24022510