General availability: NFS nconnect on Azure VMware Solution
June 18, 2026
Azure NetApp Files now supports the NFS nconnect mount option on Azure VMware Solution (AVS), enabling each AVS ESXi host to establish up to four parallel TCP connections (nconnect=4) to a single Azure NetApp Files NFS datastore. This added network parallelism increases the amount of I/O that can be processed concurrently, delivering higher aggregate throughput and IOPS per datastore compared to a single-connection configuration. By increasing per-datastore performance, nconnect=4 can reduce the need to provision and manage multiple datastores to scale performance, simplifying Azure VMware Solution storage design while still supporting performance intensive workloads such as databases. No changes are required to virtual machines or applications once the datastore is mounted with the option. For more information, see Attach Azure NetApp Files datastores to Azure VMware Solution hosts and Azure VMware Solution datastore performance considerations for Azure NetApp Files.
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