Thanks, I read Dave's blog and the link to the SE that was at the bottom. Some good information there, but no hard numbers. I'd really like to talk to someone that has both in production or maybe done testing on the same box with iSCSI and NFS, mainly because I'm too lazy to do it properly myself.

From: Doucet, Hugo [mailto:hdoucet@netapp.com]
Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2007 10:37 AM
To: Page, Jeremy; 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)



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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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