30 May 2011

Download Beyond Potatoes; Migrating from NFSv3

What are the Business benefits of NFSv4?

NFSv4 and the minor versions that follow it are designed to address many of the issues that NFSv3 poses. While adequate for many purposes and a familiar and well understood protocol, NFSv3 has become increasingly difficult to justify. For example, NFSv3 makes promiscuous use of ports, something that is unsuitable for a variety of security reasons for use over a wide area network (WAN); plus increased server & client bandwidth demands and improved functionality of Network Attached Storage (NAS) arrays have outstripped NFSv3’s ability to deliver high throughput.