Jeremy;
 
 http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007_09_09_archive.html (backup & recovery stuff under NFS) and http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/vmware-over-nfs.html, both from Nick Triantos' blog (a NetApp employee). Quote: "People may find this hard to believe, but the performance over NFS is actually better than FC or iSCSI not only in terms of throughtput but also in terms of latency."
 
Plus he has another entry http://storagefoo.blogspot.com/2007/09/demos-from-vmworld.html that points at a VMware over NFS demo from VMworld.
 

alex mcdonald | netapp

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From: Doucet, Hugo
Sent: 27 September 2007 15:37
To: jeremy.page@gilbarco.com; toasters@mathworks.com
Subject: Re: NFS and VMware

Jeremy

I suggest you consult this weeks posts on Dave Hitz blog (NetApp founder) and people's comments.

The blog can be found via a link right pane on  www.netapp.com   

Hugo (NetApp employee)



-----Original Message-----
From: Page, Jeremy <jeremy.page@gilbarco.com>
To: toasters@mathworks.com <toasters@mathworks.com>
Sent: Thu Sep 27 14:26:47 2007
Subject: NFS and VMware

Are any of the toaster folks using NFS for VMware in a production environment? We have about 150 VMs across 12 servers at the moment sitting on an IBM DS4500, but I just got my budget approved to buy a nice 3040 cluster. For ease of backup/restore/DR I really would like to use NFS instead of FCP/iSCSI but I don't know what the performance impact will be. Any comments/experiences?

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