Today we had a discussion with a storage admin who is advocating for NFS. This is for an environment of about 3000 VMs running on UCS with primarily VMFS storage. Neither is better. If you have a ...

The VMWare Cluster Locking File System, version 3 (VMFS-3) Is one of the core technologies used in VMWare ESX/vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure environments. Unfortunately, it's also a completely ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.