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Using W2k3 R2 / W2k8 server as a NFS share for vmware
This is something i do in the lab so all of my vm’s are able to access iso’s etc (very handy for quick builds). Quite handy doing it through windows since its easiey enough to setup a windows network...
View ArticleOpensolaris : Citrix XenServer / ESX – Hooking into ZFS
To share your zfs pool via NFS (that works with Citrix Xen / ESX) to a host called “esxhost”; zfs set sharenfs=rw,nosuid,root=esxhost tank/nfs Note : You MUST have a resolvable name from the...
View Articlezfs compression and latency
Since im using ZFS as storage via NFS for my some of my vmware environments i need to ensure that latency on my disk is reduced where ever possible. There is alot of talk about ZFS compression being...
View Articlevmware and load balancing NFS trunks
Straight from the post below, this is the best way (currently) to load balance your NFS datastores… No MPIO magic here unfortunately. http://communities.vmware.com/message/1466595#1466595 Basically...
View ArticleEMC Celerra Optimizations for VMware on NFS
go here http://blog.scottlowe.org/2010/01/31/emc-celerra-optimizations-for-vmware-on-nfs/ Turn on the uncached write mechanism for NFS file systems used as VMware datastores. This can have a...
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