Go logon to the NetApp site and download TR-3697 whitepaper. It was just released last week. Co-authored by VMWare and Netapp, it talks about the performance of the different protocols available (FC, ISCSI, NFS). You might be surprised.
From: Jason Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 9:34 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions Just regular application servers so far or SQL + Exchange? My plan is to run the boot volumes on nfs and storage off iscsi for SQL/Exchange. But we need to do them as RDM from the servers in order to get the i/o performance. "supposedly" My problem with using iscsi volumes is that netapp tells you to make the flexvol 220% of the space you'll give to the iscsi luns. All that extra space is for snapshots and stuff. L That much wasted space makes me a sad panda. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:28 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions NFS From: Jason Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:43 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions Are you running from NFS volumes or iSCSI? From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:31 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions I'll have to play with that next time I decide to do a P2V. PS, we do dedupe on NetApp as well and it saves a ton of space! From: Jason Morris [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:27 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions It does, and has. I do it all the time when going p2v. From: Martin Blackstone [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 10:25 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions But will Windows see that expanded partition? I think not IIRC. It may see the additional space, but won't just dynamically resize. From: Andy Shook [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 8:19 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: P2V and Partitions Roger, 1. Each volume on the physical box is treated as a separate volume(with a separate .vmdk file)in the VMWare environment. 2. Yes, the wizard driven VMWare converter will allow volumes to be shrunk or expanded during the P2V. 3. No, see #2. Shook From: Roger Wright [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, August 18, 2008 11:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: P2V and Partitions When taking a server P2V, how does the conversion handle the drives and partitions? Is it possible to do any resizing during the conversion? Do VMs require the same disk space as physical machines? Roger Wright Network Administrator Evatone, Inc. 727.572.7076 x388 _____ "A gentleman will not insult me, and no man not a gentleman can insult me." - Frederick Douglass ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from MJMC, Inc., which is confidential and/or privileged. The information is to be for the use of the individual or entity named on this cover sheet. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by telephone so that we can arrange for the retrieval of the original document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from MJMC, Inc., which is confidential and/or privileged. The information is to be for the use of the individual or entity named on this cover sheet. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by telephone so that we can arrange for the retrieval of the original document. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -------------- The pages accompanying this email transmission contain information from MJMC, Inc., which is confidential and/or privileged. The information is to be for the use of the individual or entity named on this cover sheet. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any disclosure, dissemination, distribution, or copying of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you received this transmission in error, please immediately notify us by telephone so that we can arrange for the retrieval of the original document. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
