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Hi, What are your (Netgear, vmware and the community) recommendations when it comes to choosing NFS or iSCSI as storage for vmWare virtual machines on a ReadyNAS (3100)? My intentions with my set...
IMHO, yes. The call ususally is made by the admin - if yo uare a *NIX guy, you pick NFS; Windows picks iSCSI. The most elegant way is NFS and it works on all ReadyNAS products. Sparc will be WAY slower than the modern x86 stuff, but if you just want backup or tier 2 VMs they'd work fine.
The new vSphere 5 test from VMware is a lot more complicated that it used to be, and few <$25K vendors are iSCSI certified (and none in a meaningful way, i.e. with SATA drives not SSDs). Another reason to go with NFS.
The new vSphere 5 test from VMware is a lot more complicated that it used to be, and few <$25K vendors are iSCSI certified (and none in a meaningful way, i.e. with SATA drives not SSDs). Another reason to go with NFS.
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