[TriLUG] Linux NFS - ESX VAAI plugin

[Ron Kelley via TriLUG]

Greetings all,

I have a couple of ESX 5.5 servers mounting an NFS datastore from a CentOS 6 server (nfs v3).  After looking over the environment today, I noticed the “NAS VAAI” support is not enabled.  From what I have read, the NAS VAAI offloads some storage commands to the NFS server to make cloning, etc go faster.  To enable this feature, a “vib” package must be installed on each ESX server.

Does anyone know if a generic NFS VAAI plugin exists for “normal” Linux servers (CentOS, Debian, etc)?  Google searching only gives me results for NetApp, Synology, and Hitachi. 

Thanks,

-Ron