In my lab since everything is SSD or NVMe and all 10Gb, I don’t know what improvement there was as everything was SSD, NVMe, and 10Gb from the beginning. I have asked some contacts at Synology to see if they can help answer your questions.

What model of Synology, how much RAM, how many and what types of drives, and what networking is in your NAS?

I recommend you open a support ticket (link) and let the Synology techs help you troubleshoot your issue.

Thanks

Webster

How can you delineate the metrics improvement or “see visually” what is different (in terms of speed) with this VIB installed?

We have our NFS shares pretty much exactly like your article and we just installed the NFS Plug-in but we haven’t seen much improvement?

Are we limited to the horsepower of our Synology?

I am guessing the “magic” is all in the API and we are assuming it is working?

Unlike with the command for the iSCSI stuff (esxcli storage core device vaai status get) how does one see what Primitives are supported in an NFS setup?

Thanks for any input.

No, this doesn’t happen for me.

Sorry for the delayed response. Your comment got caught by the spam filter.

Webster

I also have an ESXi connected at Synology NAS, and interesting info is that iSCSI LUN is actually thin provisioned, however looking at NFS 4.1 Shared Folder used by ESXi, VMDK file is using whole space. Win10 Template using 15GB with iSCSI but using full disk size (32GB) with NFS.

Is this happening with you too?

Chris,