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ReadyNAS 102 NFS for VMware 4.0
Hello again everybody, I just setup a ReadNAS 102 as an NFS file store for a VMware ESXi 4.0 server. I have both the server and NAS on a gig network switch and VMware able to read/write to the NAS...
I think this is normal that the speed decreases over time, since most softwares actually show some kind of average.
The non-responding thing makes me think of what I had before doing the factory reset for the 6.1.5 version that installed the latest BTRFS format. While copying the NAS just shut down, no interface, no shares available but ping still worked most of the time. The only way to get back up and running quickly was to power cycle.
I also use NFS for VMWare, but only for reading though. I run ESX 5.5 and found no problem while reading ISO. But they are smaller than 25GB, so I tried to use it as a writeable storage to give you some feedback and hit a copy problem too. It is less problematic than yours though. VMWare copied 45GB then stopped without error on a single 84GB VMDK file (so roughly half the data copied like for you), just like if I closed the window... My NAS is on heavy load right now and I will wait for it to finish its work before trying again. I'm refreshing my backups so this may take a while before I can try again, but if you got nothing by Monday evening this would mean I forgot, so feel free to ask for it in this case.
The file was copied using a windows VM that runs the client (not via Vcenter web interface) and I copied from the local disk datastore (copy / paste from a datastore to another) to the NFS datastore.
I'm running 6.2.0 first beta, it may have some importance though I really doubt it. I will update to the second beta, that the update software found while I was configuring the NFS share, later this week (I want to check all my backups before).
The non-responding thing makes me think of what I had before doing the factory reset for the 6.1.5 version that installed the latest BTRFS format. While copying the NAS just shut down, no interface, no shares available but ping still worked most of the time. The only way to get back up and running quickly was to power cycle.
I also use NFS for VMWare, but only for reading though. I run ESX 5.5 and found no problem while reading ISO. But they are smaller than 25GB, so I tried to use it as a writeable storage to give you some feedback and hit a copy problem too. It is less problematic than yours though. VMWare copied 45GB then stopped without error on a single 84GB VMDK file (so roughly half the data copied like for you), just like if I closed the window... My NAS is on heavy load right now and I will wait for it to finish its work before trying again. I'm refreshing my backups so this may take a while before I can try again, but if you got nothing by Monday evening this would mean I forgot, so feel free to ask for it in this case.
The file was copied using a windows VM that runs the client (not via Vcenter web interface) and I copied from the local disk datastore (copy / paste from a datastore to another) to the NFS datastore.
I'm running 6.2.0 first beta, it may have some importance though I really doubt it. I will update to the second beta, that the update software found while I was configuring the NFS share, later this week (I want to check all my backups before).
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