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Best practice for a VMware vSphere datastore
I need to create a share and to use it as a datastore for a VMware ESXi 5.0 server member of a VMware vSphere 5 infrastructure. Is there any documentation with the best practice to configure the shar...
Slasky wrote: I've got a setup at my workplace with an Ubuntu machine sharing a NFS store which I connect to from my ESXi machine.
These machines are connected with a 1GB ethernet line, through a switch but it works fine. I havent seen any read issues and the speed seems like it should be at the RAID 5 config I got on the share-machine.
I haven't tried checking performance with iSCSI, but it might be worth a shot.
The easiest way to set it up is by NFS I guess (as stated, havent tried iSCSI)
What kind of NAS do you have?
Centos is also good in NFS store. We're currently using this and so far, everything runs smooth.
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