Quote Originally Posted by beng
G'day Kok-hong,
Some time ago we tried NFS with ESX (nbot ESXI) and we found the performnce was pretty low, I seem to recall around 4MB/s while we got (in the same test) something like 2x that with iSCSI.
We determined that NFS was good for houing the ISO's etc, but not useful for us to house the Virtual Machines. But to clarify we did not do a lot of testing/tuning etc. and it was on very low spec hardware.
What raw speeds do you get from the NFS via a direct Linux(or windows) connection rather than via VMFS?

Rgds Ben.
Hi Beng,

Thanks for sharing. Didn't try normal NFS...have only tried it with ESXi.

But there's certainly a lot more appeal with ESXi on NFS if performance can scale to 50~60 MB/sec range. The main attraction being that there is no 2TB LUN limit if using NFS store.

iSCSI performance is pretty good, but ESXi VMFS can only see 2TB LUN, so there is still the need to provide logical partitioning...ya I know... I am lazy, I prefer not to have to partition.