Symptoms
Cloud Director hangs when leveraging VSAN NFS as the Transfer Share.VSANFS NFS v3 and v4.1 shares appear stuck or locked when using Cloud Director
Cause
This issue occurs when delegation is enabled for file services.
Resolution
This is a known issue with vSAN 7.0.3.
Workaround
To workaround this issue, please disable Delegation.
Find the UUIDs associated with the ganesha.conf file
find /vmfs/volumes/vdfsDatastore/. -name ganesha.conf
The UUIDs will be in XXX, YYY and ZZZ formatEdit the ganesha.conf file on the ESXi host which is mounted to:
/vmfs/volumes/vdfsDatastore/XXX/volumes/YYY/default/ZZZ/nfs1/etc/ganesha.conf
The conf file edit set Delegations to none and false.
NFS_CORE_PARAM { MNT_Port = 20048; Rquota_Port = 875; Plugins_Dir = /usr/lib/ganesha; Enable_FULLV3_Stats = true; Enable_FULLV4_Stats = true; Dbus_Name_Prefix = nfs1; mount
EXPORT_DEFAULTS { Delegations = None; Protocols = 3,4; SecType = sys; }
NFSV4 { Delegations = false; Minor_Versions = 1; Lease_Lifetime = 60; Grace_Period = 90; Only_Numeric_Owners = true; }
NFS_KRB5 { CCacheDir = /var/run/ganesha; }
MDCACHE { LRU_Run_Interval = 60; FD_Limit_Percent = 7; FD_HWMark_Percent = 1; FD_LWMark_Percent = 0; Entries_HWMark = 102400; Reaper_Work_Per_Lane = 200; }
LOG { FORMAT { CLIENTIP = true; LEVEL = false; FILE_NAME = false; LINE_NUM = true; time_format = none; date_format = user_defined; user_date_format = "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%SZ";
EXPORT { Export_Id = 100; Path = "/vsfs/44c57b61-dac9-eda0-d841-005056afb012/volumes/30a6e24d-e597-8431-b86f-7f03a099c97d/default"; Pseudo = "/vcd-vcf1"; Access_Type = None
EXPORT { Export_Id = 101; Path = "/vdfs_rootfs_mnt/ffc37b61-0aff-bf5f-4109-005056afdac5/volumes/0da7dc40-de33-4f50-d387-e575ad54a45b/default/6f59d066-6e39-4d63-af31-6ac7070
Restart the vsanmgmtd service:
/etc/init.d/vsanmgmtd restart
