[Cialug] Linux/*nix NFS + VMware

[Nathan C. Smith]

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.

-Nate

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

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<mailto: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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