vSAN File Services supported/unsupported features and protocols for NFS

Products

• VMware vSAN

Issue/Introduction

The below command may fail with an "Operation not supported" message when trying to create ACLs as this is not a supported feature.  This may also return an error on other protocols described below.

setfacl -m g:<group-name>:rx </nfs-share-name>

Environment

VMware vSAN (All Versions)

vSAN File Services is enabled

Resolution

Supported Protocols:

• Nfsv3
• Nfsv4.1 

Unsupported Protocols:

• Nfsv2
• Nfsv4.0
• Nfsv4.2
• Nfsv4.3

Unsupported Features:

• Delegation (file/directory)
• ACL's
• Named Attributes
• PNFS
• Kerberos on Nfsv3
• Extended Group
• Directory Notification
• Quota

NFS mounts using UDP as a transport protocol is not supported.