Hello, I wondering if there is a benefit to using the NFS datastore versus a SAN Datastore for my repository path?
David DeMizio *Academic Systems Coordinator* Office of Information Technology New College of Florida Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 www.ncf.edu On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:43 PM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > So I can use the SAN datastores that are visible to my two esxi for my > Repository > path and also for my VM Working directory path?. Currently I have 4 300 > gig SSD configure for local storage which I plan on using for Virtual > disk path. Am I better off have two raid 1 ( one for Virtual disk path > and another for VM working directory path ) the other nonssd is where > esxi is installed, no other local storage. 6 disk in both esxi hosts , 4 > ssd and 2 nonssd for esxi. > > > David DeMizio > *Academic Systems Coordinator* > Office of Information Technology > New College of Florida > Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 > www.ncf.edu > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]> > wrote: > >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >> Hash: SHA1 >> >> On Monday, June 09, 2014 10:06:14 AM Mike Haudenschild wrote: >> > Also, I haven't even touched the issue of vMotion here, which changes >> the >> > conversation about shared-vs-local storage a lot. If your use case for >> > vMotion is about planned ESXi host maintenance, you can always migrate >> VMs >> > away from a host-to-be-rebooted to other hosts via the VCL Web UI (any >> VMs >> > with active reservations will be placed in a pending state). vMotion >> for >> > HA with VCL local storage is a different story. >> >> If you use the VCL Web UI to remove a VM that has an active reservation >> from a >> VM host, it will create a sort of place holder reservation that starts at >> the >> end time of the active reservation and tells vcld to remove the VM from >> the VM >> host at that time. Then, once the active reservation has completed, the >> VM >> will be stopped and unregistered on the VM host. >> >> Josh >> - -- >> - ------------------------------- >> Josh Thompson >> VCL Developer >> North Carolina State University >> >> my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu >> >> All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which >> are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public >> Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. >> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >> Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) >> >> iEYEARECAAYFAlOV6AIACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPloACfd2Tl35wjyVTDqedvwsECEb9h >> o7IAnRzRcHQFQYUd+tIZAXE/opcyFlJr >> =TO0a >> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >> >> >
