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</o:shapelayout></xml><![endif]--></head><body lang=EN-US link=blue vlink=purple><div class=WordSection1><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>There is a local vendor that seems very insistent than VMware using NFS is superior to iSCSI -something about no limits on reservations when compared to iSCSI. They advocate NFS on NetApp.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'>-Nate<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"Calibri","sans-serif";color:#1F497D'><o:p> </o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'>From:</span></b><span style='font-size:10.0pt;font-family:"Tahoma","sans-serif"'> cialug-bounces@cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces@cialug.org] <b>On Behalf Of </b>David Champion<br><b>Sent:</b> Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:00 PM<br><b>To:</b> Central Iowa Linux Users Group<br><b>Subject:</b> Re: [Cialug] Linux/*nix NFS + VMware<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal style='margin-bottom:12.0pt'>How about using iSCSI? I'd think that would be more robust than NFS.<br><br><a href="http://www.sysprobs.com/connect-freenas-iscsi-disks-vmware-vsphere-4-esxi4">http://www.sysprobs.com/connect-freenas-iscsi-disks-vmware-vsphere-4-esxi4</a><br><br>I've started using FreeNAS some, it's pretty nice to work with, takes a bit more time to set up than one of the NAS appliances, but has a lot more flexibility, and for the same cost or less, you can get much better performance out of x86 hardware, where most of the low-end NAS appliances use an imbedded processor.<br><br>-dc<o:p></o:p></p><div><p class=MsoNormal>On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Nathan C. Smith <<a href="mailto:nathan.smith@ipmvs.com">nathan.smith@ipmvs.com</a>> wrote:<o:p></o:p></p><p class=MsoNormal><br>Is anyone using Linux or other *nix based NFS server (freeNAS?) for VMware ESX in production? Are there any compatibility issues? I would guess it would be a non-supported configuration as far as VMware goes.<br><br>-Nate<br>_______________________________________________<br>Cialug mailing list<br><a href="mailto:Cialug@cialug.org">Cialug@cialug.org</a><br><a href="http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug" target="_blank">http://cialug.org/mailman/listinfo/cialug</a><o:p></o:p></p></div><p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p></div></body></html>