Creating NFSv4.1 datastores with Kerberos authentication

VMware introduced support for NFS 4.1 with vSphere 6.0. vSphere 6.5 added several enhancements:

  • It now supports AES encryption
  • Support for IPv6
  • Support Kerberos integrity checking mechanism

In this recipe, we will learn how to create NFS 4.1 datastores. Although the procedure is similar to NFSv3, there are a few additional steps that needs to be performed.