Hi Jimmy,
On Feb 20, 2008 11:22 AM, Jimmy Corncrake oisintno@gmail.com wrote:
Hi,
we are in the process of deploying a number of Filers which will provide Storage for VMWARE. To date we have always run CIFS as our Storage has up until now served Windows client requests only. Our new Filers will be running with NFS licensed as opposed to CIFS. As I am a self confessed UNIX illiterate I will want to presist with managing these new Filers from my Windows Clients. I know that ISCSI. which will be licenced. will provide us with some CIFS features such as the ability to register the devices within AD and create CIFS shares which will be read-only. However we will still want to retain the ability to read-write the root volume and in generally manage these devices as we have done until now. I assume to achieve this I will need to install NFS Client software. Does anyone have an recommendations on such client software or any other observations that may be of use to us as we step beyond our familiar boundaries?
There is an NFS client available in Windows 2003, you can just add is as a client service to your NIC, should do the job just fine.
Offcourse, the performance is a bit lower than using NFS on a unix server, but since you need it for management tasks only, you should be fine.