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Overview of supported NFS versions and clients

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Before you can use NFS in your network, you need to know which NFS versions and clients ONTAP supports.

This table notes when major and minor NFS protocol versions are supported by default in ONTAP. Support by default does not indicate that this is the earliest version of ONTAP supporting that NFS protocol.

Version Enabled by default

NFSv3

Yes

NFSv4.0

Yes, beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1

NFSv4.1

Yes, beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1

NFSv4.2

Yes, beginning with ONTAP 9.9.1

pNFS

No

For the latest information about which NFS clients ONTAP supports, see the Interoperability Matrix.