1. Prerequisites The storage and the nodes that use it form an RDMA network The RDMA devices are configured with IP addresses If you are using Mellanox NICs, add the -with-nfsrdma parameter when installing the driver 1 ./mlnxofedinstall --with-nfsrdma 2. Starting the Server Install dependencies 1 apt install nfs-kernel-server rdma-core -y Load the kernel module 1 modprobe svcrdma Add the port to portlist 1 echo 'rdma 20049' | tee /proc/fs/nfsd/portlist Export directory 1 mkdir /data1/nfs 1 2 3 vim /etc/exports /data1/nfs *(rw,sync,no_root_squash,no_all_squash) Start the NFS service 1 systemctl start nfs-server.

NFS (Network File System) is used to share directories over the network; once the client mounts them, they can be read and written like a local disk. This post covers deploying an NFS service on CentOS and Ubuntu, and how to mount a remote NFS directory on each system. 1.