If I am using NFS in an environment for the first time, what considerations does the network team need to make to prepare the physical network end-to-end for this?
The requirements for using NFS in terms of load balancing policies on the vswitches, link aggregation between the physical hosts and the physical switches have been determined. However, if there are 3 switches between my physical host and my NAS, what do the network guys need to do on the physical network on the connections between switches and end-to-end in order to properly impliment NFS?
Most of the recommendations I see pertain to how the NAS should connect it's link to the physical switch directly in front of it, and how the ESXi host should connect to the physical switch directly in front of it. Is that all that needs to be taken into account or is there more to think about between switches along the path?
Thanks