Comments on: Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/ Go Green with Virtualization. Go UGLY Green with vmetc.com. Wed, 25 Jan 2012 13:41:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Welcome to vSphere-land! » Storage Links http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-5876 Welcome to vSphere-land! » Storage Links Thu, 24 Mar 2011 16:39:58 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-5876 [...] vSphere on NFS Storage (VMware) Republished: Dispelling Some VMware over NFS Myths (Scott Lowe) Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure [...] [...] vSphere on NFS Storage (VMware) Republished: Dispelling Some VMware over NFS Myths (Scott Lowe) Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure [...]

]]> By: Info http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-4936 Info Mon, 06 Sep 2010 22:14:00 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-4936 Outstanding Article - Many Thanks! If anyone wants to present NFS from Server 2008 R2 here's how to do it http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000318.htm Pete Outstanding Article – Many Thanks! If anyone wants to present NFS from Server 2008 R2 here’s how to do it http://www.petenetlive.com/KB/Article/0000318.htm

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]]> By: Peter http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-2713 Peter Fri, 03 Jul 2009 05:58:33 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-2713 <strong>vmware tools...</strong> Intriguing idea, but I don't know if I believe you one hundred percent.... vmware tools…

Intriguing idea, but I don’t know if I believe you one hundred percent….

]]> By: Virtual Sunny http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-2573 Virtual Sunny Wed, 03 Jun 2009 00:13:36 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-2573 NFS is simple for VMware deployment.<br>Sun have got a solutions guide at <a href="http://www.sun.com/offers/details/sun-vmware-solutions.xml" rel="nofollow">http://www.sun.com/offers/details/sun-vmware-so...</a> NFS is simple for VMware deployment.
Sun have got a solutions guide at http://www.sun.com/offers/details/sun-vmware-so…

]]> By: Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure | My Etherealmind http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-2436 Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure | My Etherealmind Mon, 04 May 2009 16:24:51 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-2436 [...] 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.” [...] [...] 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.” [...]

]]> By: rbrambley http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-2433 rbrambley Mon, 04 May 2009 10:04:41 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-2433 Jason,<br><br>Thanks for the large enterprise NFS example and volume sizing insight. The administrative convenience allowed by NFS is really amazing - on multiple levels. NetApp NFS takes the protocol to another level with performance, backups, and replication. Filer snapshots (along with replication bandwidth / data trabsfer) is definitely a good reason for still splitting the VM pagefiles from the .vmdk folders. Jason,

Thanks for the large enterprise NFS example and volume sizing insight. The administrative convenience allowed by NFS is really amazing – on multiple levels. NetApp NFS takes the protocol to another level with performance, backups, and replication. Filer snapshots (along with replication bandwidth / data trabsfer) is definitely a good reason for still splitting the VM pagefiles from the .vmdk folders.

]]> By: Jason Boche http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-2431 Jason Boche Mon, 04 May 2009 02:53:49 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-2431 At my new environment, we are a very large NetApp shop. Much of our VMware VI runs on NetApp and we are moving our VMs from fibre channel SAN (EMC and Hitachi) to NetApp NFS on daily basis. The reasons for running on NFS are all outlined above. Our VMKernel swap is on NFS albeit separated from the VMs because we don't want swap snapped. Waste of disk space. By next year we'll have 6,000+ VMs. Probably 80% or more of running on NetApp NFS.<br><br>Volume sizing of NFS versus SAN is quite different. With SAN we'll typically have somewhere around 500GB to 1TB LUNs. NFS volumes are 3.4TB. Quite a decrease in the amount of datastores to manage when they are that large. You wouldn't dare do that with SAN due to being forced to use extents (I still say avoid them like the plague) and you just don't put that many VMs on a single LUN unless you can guarantee low disk I/O or the VMs are large such that only 10 or less are going to fit on a 2+TB SAN volume anyway. At my new environment, we are a very large NetApp shop. Much of our VMware VI runs on NetApp and we are moving our VMs from fibre channel SAN (EMC and Hitachi) to NetApp NFS on daily basis. The reasons for running on NFS are all outlined above. Our VMKernel swap is on NFS albeit separated from the VMs because we don't want swap snapped. Waste of disk space. By next year we'll have 6,000+ VMs. Probably 80% or more of running on NetApp NFS.

Volume sizing of NFS versus SAN is quite different. With SAN we'll typically have somewhere around 500GB to 1TB LUNs. NFS volumes are 3.4TB. Quite a decrease in the amount of datastores to manage when they are that large. You wouldn't dare do that with SAN due to being forced to use extents (I still say avoid them like the plague) and you just don't put that many VMs on a single LUN unless you can guarantee low disk I/O or the VMs are large such that only 10 or less are going to fit on a 2+TB SAN volume anyway.

]]> By: buckmaster http://vmetc.com/2009/05/01/reasons-for-using-nfs-with-vmware-virtual-infrastructure/comment-page-1/#comment-2428 buckmaster Sat, 02 May 2009 17:50:39 +0000 http://vmetc.com/?p=3826#comment-2428 Keep up the great work. Your site is the best, chalked full of USEFUL information. Keep up the great work. Your site is the best, chalked full of USEFUL information.

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