You can create an NFS 4.1 datastore with Kerberos authentication and multipathing.

Prerequisites
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Verify that you are connected to a vCenter Server system.

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Verify that the remote NFS share supports multipathing and Kerberos authentication .

Procedure
1

Get the virtual machine host where you want to create the NFS 4.1 datastore. 

$vmhost = Get-VMHost 'hostname'
2

Set NTP servers for the virtual machine host. 

Add-VMHostNtpServer -VMHost $vmhost -NtpServer 'ntp_server_ip'
3

Set a DNS server and search the domain for the virtual machine host. 

$vmhostnetwork = Get-VMHostNetwork -VMHost $vmhost
Set-VMHostNetwork -Network $vmhostnetwork -DnsFromDhcp $false -DnsAddress 'dns_server_ip' -DomainName 'domain_name' -SearchDomain 'search_domain'
4

Add the virtual machine to the Active Directory domain. 

$vmhost | Get-VMHostAuthentication | Set-VMHostAuthentication -JoinDomain -Domain 'AD_domain_name' -Username 'AD_user_name' -Password 'AD_password'
5

Create an NFS user on the virtual machine host for Kerberos-based authentication for the NFS 4.1 datastore. 

New-NfsUser -VMHost $vmhost -Username 'NFS_user_name' -Password 'password'
6

Create an NFS 4.1 datastore with Kerberos authentication and multipathing. 

New-Datastore -Name 'NFS_datastore_name' -Nfs -FileSystemVersion '4.1' -VMHost $vmhost -NfsHost @('remote_host_1_ip', 'remote_host_2_ip') -Path 'NFS_datastore_remote_path' –Kerberos
7

(Optional) Retrieve the datastore. 

$ds = Get-Datastore 'NFS_datastore_name'
8

(Optional) Remove the datastore. 

Remove-Datastore $ds -VMHost $vmhost
9

(Optional) Get the NFS user from the virtual machine host. 

$user = Get-NfsUser -VMHost $vmhost
10

(Optional) Update the password of the NFS user. 

$user = Set-NfsUser -NfsUser $user -Password 'new_password'
11

(Optional) Remove the NFS user. 

Remove-NfsUser -NfsUser $user