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mdgm-ntgr
Feb 06, 2011NETGEAR Employee Retired
SBS 2011 and ESXi
I was thinking of maybe getting a ReadyNAS to use as NFS storage for a new ESXi server to replace any ageing setup. Which ReadyNAS would you recommend for this new setup? Currently we're using an a...
CappyKD
May 13, 2011Aspirant
The biggest reason is being able to format the volume as Vmfs which is a VMWare native file system. I just cut over our 15 ESXi server 400 virtual server environment from NFS to iSCSI and we saw huge performance gains and reliability gains. We also use NFS still with our DMZ VMWare implementation and NFS can easily be overwhelmed when doing too much cloning and migration.g of vmdk's between datastores vs. iSCSI. iSCSI Gets even better when you use hardware hba's vs standard software iSCSI in VMWare.
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