VMware with support form their storage alliance partners NetApp, EMC and HDS has updated their Best Practices for deploying vSphere with NFS datastores. The document provides direction in areas that are common among the NFS storage vendors . Content includes networking configuration options, interoperability with vSphere components and a number of advanced settings. The paper is available on the VMware Technical Resources site. This document should be considered a foundational document when considering a deployment …
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Heads up! Avoiding VMware vSphere ESXi 5 NFS Disconnect Issues
There is a problem that impacts our mutual customers running VMware ESXi 5 with NFS connectivity. While details are not finalized it appears the engineering teams at VMware and NetApp have identified an issue with the NFS client in ESXi 5 stack and the NFS service in Data ONTAP that results in the two behaving badly with high I/O load, when SIOC is not in use. This issue appears to only affect vSphere 5 releases and not …
VMworld 2012: BCO2982 Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM
This session was second of the two ‘community’ sessions I presented with Chad. The topic of this session is “Stretched Clusters and VMware SRM – when, why, where”. In many regards the technologies that comprise these offerings can be viewed as the “new protocol battle”. There are a number of technical considerations one needs to make before deciding on a technology or the use of many and we speak to the details in this session. …
VMworld 2012: STO2980 vSphere Storage Best Practices
This session was one of the two ‘community’ sessions I submitted for VMworld. I refer to these sessions as community because they are meant to speak to a subject in a vendor neutral perspective. I’d like to thank Chad Sakac; over the past 4 or 5 years he and I have jointly presented at VMworld events and the feedback from these sessions has been outstanding. As I shared in “NetApp Rocks VMworld2012!“, STO29080 was rated …
Thoughts on Best Practices with VMware vSphere 5
This article originally appears in Tech OnTap – If you enjoy it, please consider subscribing to Tech OnTap. NetApp recently published an update to our storage best practices for VMware® that highlights the new capabilities of VMware vSphere® 5 and NetApp® Data ONTAP® 8. This updated technical report (TR) covers a number of new capabilities from VMware such as Storage DRS, Storage I/O Control, and updated vStorage APIs, as well as an enhanced set of …
NetApp Releases Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere 5
We have recently released a new version of the NetApp Storage Best Practices for VMware vSphere technical report TR-3749. I’m very excited as version 3.0 includes a number of new content that is highlighted by the addition of support for vSphere 5.
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