Michael Leone on 30 Jul 2009 05:21:12 -0700


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Re: [PLUG] Upcoming PLUG North Virtualization Roundtable - KVM and Virtualbox experts wanted!


On Wed, Jul 29, 2009 at 7:02 PM, Lee Marzke<lee@marzke.net> wrote:

> We went with NFS to a NetAPP FAS instead of  ISCSI or FC.    Since the
> NetAPP FAS supports  Single Instance
> Storage (De-duplication )  I found  the storage used for many similar
> VM's was only 1/5 the space of a non SIS array.

So wait ... the ESX hosts mount their datastores using NFS, across you
LAN? Am I missing something here? How is that faster than a direct
connect using FC?
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