Actually, the original link is a bit old

http://www.vfrank.org/2011/03/22/performance-rdm-vs-vmfs/

is newer

On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Matt Simmons
<[email protected]> wrote:
> Have you read this (and the linked documents)?
> http://www.virtualizationteam.com/virtualization-vmware/vmware-vi3-virtualization-vmware/dont-use-vmware-raw-device-mapping-rdm-for-performance-but.html
>
> --Matt
>
> On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 12:00 PM, Tim Kirby <[email protected]> wrote:
>> So, given the following:
>>
>>  ESXi 4.x servers with 10GigE connectivity to a NAS
>>  that supports both NFS and iSCSI
>>
>> Consider the virtualization of, say, a Linux mysql
>> server (previously a server with FC attached storage).
>>
>> There are various possibilities for the database(s).
>> I believe the very last thing one would want to do is
>> put the DB in the vmdk, however there are four other
>> options:
>>
>>   ESX NFS mount of space from storage
>>   ESX iSCSI mount of space from storage
>>   Client OS (Linux) NFS mount of space from storage
>>   Client OS (Linux) iSCSI mount of space from storage
>>
>> There seem to be pros and cons of all and I'm trying
>> to determine how many of them are dinosaur-thinking
>> based on ancient history and how many are relevant to
>> today.
>>
>> So, I'm tossing this out for a community wisdom poll :)
>>
>> While I'm at it, I have a sense that the current thought
>> is that vmdk over NFS is preferable to vmdk over iSCSI;
>> I'll ask for any comments on that while I'm at it.
>>
>> Thanks for your time.
>>
>> Tim
>> --
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>>
>>
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