Which can be done to the existing NFSv3 volumes to enab…

An administrator has upgraded to vSphere 6.5 and also wants to use Kerberos authentication for NFS.
Which can be done to the existing NFSv3 volumes to enable this feature?

An administrator has upgraded to vSphere 6.5 and also wants to use Kerberos authentication for NFS.
Which can be done to the existing NFSv3 volumes to enable this feature?

A.
Perform a storage rescan on VMFS volumes.

B.
Unmount the NFSv3 datastore, and then mount as NFSv4.1 datastore.

C.
Nothing. All NFSv3 mounted datastores are upgraded automatically during vSphere upgrades.

D.
Perform a scan of new storage devices.



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Pat

Pat

Yes B.

Explanation:

NFS 3 does not support access to NFS volumes via non-root credentials. You must provide each host root access to the volume.

NFS 4.1 supports Kerberos authentication protocol and the use of non-root users to access files when used with Kerberos.