[Cialug] Linux/*nix NFS + VMware

[kristau]

My impression (no hard facts here) is that iSCSI is the preferred
network filesystem for VMware. NFS works well (and I've used it), but
I feel that iSCSI support in VMware is more robust.

That said, performance can be had with either solution. VMware's
official position is that you should follow the SAN/NAS manufacturer's
recommendations when configuring it for VMware. Each manufacturer does
things a little differently, so there is not a single "gold"
configuration from VMware that works best with all SANs/NASes...

On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 3:05 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com> wrote:
> 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.
>
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> -Nate
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> From: cialug-bounces at cialug.org [mailto:cialug-bounces at cialug.org] On Behalf
> Of David Champion
> Sent: Wednesday, December 29, 2010 2:00 PM
> To: Central Iowa Linux Users Group
> Subject: Re: [Cialug] Linux/*nix NFS + VMware
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> How about using iSCSI? I'd think that would be more robust than NFS.
>
> http://www.sysprobs.com/connect-freenas-iscsi-disks-vmware-vsphere-4-esxi4
>
> 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.
>
> -dc
>
> On Wed, Dec 29, 2010 at 1:13 PM, Nathan C. Smith <nathan.smith at ipmvs.com>
> wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> -Nate
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