I'd also be interested in hearing about downsides. I've looked at NFS because I think it would be easier to manage, but others here fail to see the upsides to NFS as worth moving away from fiber ...

Using NFS to store and boot virtual machine images is becoming an attractive option, and for obvious reasons NetApp has been promoting the use of its solutions as the perfect complement to a VMware on ...

It is possible to have a few number of large NFS datastores, but it is also a valid configuration to leverage a larger number of smaller NFS datastores. This may or may not be on multiple storage ...

We are looking to standardize on storage for our VMware environments. Right now we are running on an older EMC Clariion FC 2GB SAN. We also have a couple Equallogic iSCSI units in house. I don't have ...

VMware vSphere is the dominant data center virtualization platform. This cheat sheet provides an introduction to what you need to know about vSphere. With all the talk of DevOps, containers, and ...

Will NFS become the predominant storage deployment method for VMware implementations? NFS didn't need to be saved, but because of VMware its use has been broadened beyond the traditional Unix ...