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With the move to ESXi is NFS becoming more useful than VMFS?

root — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 07:45:25 -0700

By Simon Gallagher

Now that VMware are moving away from ESX classic (with service console) to the ESXi model I have experienced a couple of issues recently that got me wondering if NFS will be a more appropriate model for VM storage going forward. in recent versions of ESX (3.5 and 4) NFS has moved away from just being recommended for .ISO/template storage and has some big names behind it for production VM storage.

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Egnyte on hybrid cloud network attached storage; SMBs and costs

root — Tue, 08 Dec 2009 11:45:32 -0700

Cloud storage platforms like Amazon S3 are handy unless your primary business is providing active file servers. That tidbit was divulged by Egnyte CEO Vineet Jain as the company released a local cloud networked attached storage (NAS) offering aimed at small to mid-sized businesses.

Iomega's NAS: Is the mainstream ready for network storage?

root — Fri, 28 Aug 2009 09:45:13 -0600

Is the average household ready for a network-attached storage device? Iomega, an EMC company, sees an opportunity when it comes to mainstream consumers and a storage device that allows all of the PCs in a home to connect to the same storage drive. This week, the company launched a next-generation quad-drive desktop NAS appliance built on [...]

Why FCoE? Why not just NAS and iSCSI?

root — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 03:15:09 -0600

By Chad Sakac

Scott Lowe recently wrote a good post on FCoE, and his thoughts here. The comments of his readers are comments I’ve heard from others as well, so I posted a response in the comments, but I think Scott and I don’t have the same readership (and perhaps those that do may not read the comments)

This is an important dialog, IMHO, [...]

A Multivendor Post to help our mutual NFS customers using VMware

root — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 17:45:14 -0600

We were quite a bit surprised to see how popular our “Multivendor iSCSI” post was. The feedback was overwhelming and very supportive of industry leaders partnering to ensure customer’s success with VMware. While writing that post, we (Vaughn Stewart from NetApp and Chad Sakac from EMC) discussed following up the iSCSI post with one focused on deploying VMware over NFS. The most difficult part around creating this post is that we couldn’t do it with our iSCSI-focused colleagues.

VMware virtualization shops seek low-cost storage alternatives

ehowton — Thu, 04 Jun 2009 12:45:15 -0600

A Fibre Channel storage area network isn't the only way to get the networked storage you need for a virtualized environment.

Reasons for Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure

tludwig — Mon, 04 May 2009 16:45:20 -0600

Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure | VM /ETC: “” “A lot of companies are using NFS as the preferred protocol to shared storage for VMware Virtual Infrastructure. In my personal experience, The administrative options and convenience of NFS is unmatched, and the virtual machine (VM) performance is surprising.” AND “For those that are considering NFS, [...]

Microsoft sponsors open-source NFS project to support HPC Windows

tludwig — Fri, 24 Apr 2009 17:45:11 -0600

Microsoft is pragmatic about open source: It works with open-source projects when a business need is being met. File sharing between Windows and non-Microsoft operating systems for high-performance computing scenarios meets that criterion. The company is sponsoring work at the University of Michigan's Center for Information Technology Integration to create an open-source Network File System (NFSv4.1) client that runs on Windows.

The Case Against FCoE and Fibrechannel - a Reasonably Complete View

tludwig — Mon, 20 Apr 2009 20:45:11 -0600

A number of storage bloggers have been questioning the relevance of FCoE and why would you bother with it. Given the size of marketing budgets pushing FCoE and the reality distortion this generates, lets look at the case AGAINST FCoE.

Behind XenServer Storage

tludwig — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 14:45:28 -0700

In my previous post on the subject of storage (Is SAN really NAS spelled backwards), I introduced a fundamentals whitepaper. Behind XenServer Storage, builds on this and shows how XenServer leverages the different kinds of storage. Feedback welcome! View Online | Add Comment