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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...
ahpsi wrote: Thanks for the response, I read the OP's question with a good bit of interest as I'm doing the same thing right now. To be clear, the simplest and best method for connecting VMware ESXi to a business class ReadyNAS is NFS, not iSCSI? Are the VM's themselves responsive when executed off an NFS share? Even a Sparc based unit (NV+ or 1100)? Any gotchas with NFS and the vers of hypervisor or the FW vers of the ReadyNAS?
Thanks!
Hi. We never really used iSCSI over NAS but what is its primary disadvantage why everybody else are not running them?
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