Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Levin
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Jeff Wasilko wrote: > What about storage failover? How long of a pause can ESX tolerate while > a clustered NFS server fails over betwen heads? I haven't specifically tested ESX and NAS because my company is still stuck on fibrechannel SAN, but I can tell you that when the SA

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-07 Thread Adam Levin
On Sun, 7 Nov 2010, Derek J. Balling wrote: > Well, that correlates to a question I've had : are people actually > comfortable putting their VMDKs on NFS? That just doesn't seem like > something that would perform well. Actually, NFS (particularly enterprise NAS like NetApp) works incredibly w

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-07 Thread Jeff Wasilko
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-si

[lopsa-tech] recent Yahoo and Gmail account "hacks"

2010-11-07 Thread Tom Perrine
In the past 10 days or so, at least 3 or 4 people that I know have had either Yahoo or Gmail accounts hijacked and used to send spam. Some are quite technical, others not so much. This doesn't seem to be the old "facebook attack" as all but one use a different password for FB than their email acc

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-07 Thread Edward Ned Harvey
> 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 hypervi

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-07 Thread Derek J. Balling
On Nov 5, 2010, at 12:07 PM, Nick Silkey wrote: > NFS-to-ESX NetApp heads replicating to cross-town filers via SnapMirror. Well, that correlates to a question I've had : are people actually comfortable putting their VMDKs on NFS? That just doesn't seem like something that would perform well. H