On Aug 11, 2010, at 12:52 PM, Paul Kraus wrote: > I am looking for references of folks using ZFS with either NFS > or iSCSI as the backing store for VMware (4.x) backing store for > virtual machines. We asked the local VMware folks and they had not > even heard of ZFS. Part of what we are looking for is a recommendation > for NFS or iSCSI, and all VMware would say is "we support both". We > are currently using Sun SE-6920, 6140, and 2540 hardware arrays via > FC. We have started playing with ZFS/NFS, but have no experience with > iSCSI. The ZFS backing store in some cases will be the hardware arrays > (the 6920 has fallen off of VMware's supported list and if we front > end it with either NFS or iSCSI it'll be supported, and VMware > suggested that) and some of it will be backed by J4400 SATA disk.
At Nexenta, we have many customers using ZFS as backing store for VMware and Citrix XenServer. Nexenta also has a plugin to help you integrate your VMware, XenServer, and Hyper-V virtual hosts with the storage appliance. For more info, see http://www.nexenta.com/corp/applications/vmdc and the latest Nexenta docs, including the VMDC User's Guide are at: http://www.nexenta.com/corp/documentation/product-documentation Please share and enjoy that the joint EMC+NetApp storage best practices for configuring ESX applies to all NFS and block storage (*SCSI) environments. Google "TR-3428" and point me in the direction of any later versions you find :-) -- richard -- Richard Elling rich...@nexenta.com +1-760-896-4422 Enterprise class storage for everyone www.nexenta.com _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
