Howdy all,
I'm new to the ESX arena and have been consuming CentOS instances on several ESX servers in house. These CentOS instances are an appliance image my company makes that runs a potentially busy MySQL db. We have so far been using only locally attached disk, but I'm thinking filers rock using NFS to ESX host, and most probably there is a best practices guide published by Netapp. I no longer support filers and as such don't have a NOW account anymore, but am curious to how well filers support ESX datastore requirements.
Could anybody advise me on what the standard practice is? Direct attach GigE links from the filer to the ESX host and run NFS? How many instances of MySQL can you get away with on an ESX host mounting filer volumes?
TIA
-Bob B.