Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure | VM /​ETC: “”

“A lot of com­pan­ies are using NFS as the pre­ferred pro­tocol to shared stor­age for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. In my per­sonal exper­i­ence, The admin­is­trat­ive options and con­veni­ence of NFS is unmatched, and the vir­tual machine (VM) per­form­ance is surprising.“

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“For those that are con­sid­er­ing NFS, I was recently for­war­ded a list of links that provide sound argu­ments and testi­mo­ni­als on the unique advant­ages of using NFS with VMware. Although the pub­lished date of some of the posts that are ref­er­enced might be a bit dated, the con­tent is still valid. Here is the list with quotes from some of the posts, but be sure to read the all in full for more information.”

But the real magic is in the com­ments where a num­ber of com­menters talk about their suc­cess using NFS for stor­age. This is the con­firm­a­tion that FCoE has no future and exists only to allow leg­acy integ­ra­tion. It is also worth not­ing that VMWare has been tout­ing its much improved iSCSI sup­port in the new VMware vSphere (oth­er­wise known as VMWare 4.0). People are acknow­ledging that iSCSI sup­port in VMware 3.5 needed improv­ing.

I remain con­vinced the Storage over IP will be the solu­tion of the future. I still do not have any evid­ence the FibreChannel or FCoE has any­thing to offer 95% of the vir­tu­al­isa­tion market.

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