On Sun, Nov 07, 2010 at 12:37:25PM -0500, Edward Ned Harvey wrote: > > From: tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org [mailto:tech-boun...@lists.lopsa.org] > > On Behalf Of Derek J. Balling > > > > Has anyone done a side-by-side comparison of, say, iSCSI vs. NFS for VM > > performance? > > I did a side-by-side comparison of NFS versus iscsi... The storage is > solaris ZFS, and the hypervisor is ESXi. I could not detect any performance > difference between the two, but I could think up all sorts of ways that NFS > was better, in terms of snapshotting, backups, cloning, ease of setup, etc. > Long story short, for ESXi purposes, I could not find one single advantage > in favor of iscsi.
What about storage failover? How long of a pause can ESX tolerate while a clustered NFS server fails over betwen heads? -j _______________________________________________ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/
