There are many customers running 100s and 1000s of VMs over NFS. It seems
like a natural way to integrate NetApp¹s storage virtualization directly
with VMware, and NFS performs on par with FCP. You should try it, you¹d be
surprised.
Cheers,
Vaughn Stewart | Virtualization Evangelist
From: Jack Lyons <jack1729@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 04 Mar 2008 18:09:12 -0500
To: Milazzo Giacomo <G.Milazzo@sinergy.it>
Cc: "Buerger, Andreas" <andreas.buerger@wincor-nixdorf.com>, Nick Silkey
<silkey@ece.utexas.edu>, <toasters@mathworks.com>
Subject: Re: R: R: VMware - snap - backup
I don't speak for VMWare but I know that they are moving away from only
storing ISO and templates. There are several good size implementations
of vmware on nfs. We have about 2 dozen VM's running on nfs and another
40 running on FCP.
Milazzo Giacomo wrote:
> And I've to (re)correct you :-)
> NFS? Avoiding phylosophical discussion on performances, VMware itself states
to use it just for ISO or templates...
> you perfectly know how much costs the NFS license! Terrible!!! iSCSI is free
(bundle) and we've tested also on huge SATA disks...no issues.
>
> Why do you said that iSCSI implementation is horrible? It's so easy to
setup...
>
> -----Messaggio originale-----
> Da: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com] Per
conto di Buerger, Andreas
> Inviato: martedì 4 marzo 2008 14.38
> A: Nick Silkey; toasters@mathworks.com
> Oggetto: RE: R: VMware - snap - backup
>
> I have to correct you :)
> We did some tests with vcb and iscsi, it works fine, but vcb in general
> was not very convenient.
> And the other thing is that the iscsi implementation in esx is horrible.
> Use NFS to earn more flexibility and an even better performance.
>
> That's the experience we've made.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-toasters@mathworks.com [mailto:owner-toasters@mathworks.com]
> On Behalf Of Nick Silkey
> Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2008 1:17 PM
> To: toasters@mathworks.com
> Subject: Re: R: VMware - snap - backup
>
> Milazzo Giacomo wrote:
>
>> As I told you in another mail your environment make me more persuaded
>> that the best thing you could do is to use VCB.
>>
>
> VCB = VMWare Consolidated Backup?
>
> AFAIK, it is not an option in an iSCSI environment[1] ... if this is not
> the case, do correct me as we are aggressively pursuing iSCSI on our
> 3020s as a prod means to store vmdks for ESX. :)
>
> [1]: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/iSCSI_design_deploy.pdf
>
>
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