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

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

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-05 Thread Nick Silkey
NFS-to-ESX NetApp heads replicating to cross-town filers via SnapMirror. On Nov 5, 2010 2:20 PM, "Jonathan" wrote: ___ Tech mailing list Tech@lists.lopsa.org http://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/tech This list provided by the League of Profess

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-05 Thread Jonathan
On 03/11/10 15:31, Jonathan wrote: Hi, Are any of you running the HP/Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance with VMware VSphere and iSCSI? We are considering inter-site replication over dark fibre, with VSphere servers at several sites (for business continuity purposes) and would love to hear (on o

Re: [lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-03 Thread Derek J. Balling
On Nov 3, 2010, at 11:31 AM, Jonathan wrote: > Are any of you running the HP/Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance with VMware > VSphere and iSCSI? We're using HP/LeftHand physical units (not the VSA) with vSphere and iSCSI (although, pedantically, we're using LeftHand NSM2120s and NSM2120G2s, which

[lopsa-tech] HP Lefthand and VMware

2010-11-03 Thread Jonathan
Hi, Are any of you running the HP/Lefthand Virtual SAN Appliance with VMware VSphere and iSCSI? We are considering inter-site replication over dark fibre, with VSphere servers at several sites (for business continuity purposes) and would love to hear (on or off list) from anyone who has been