Open-E/Vmware question

[beng]

I don’t know if this will have an effect on ESX 2 on NFS but i can tell you that Open-E and ESX 3.x do not go together very well using block level access. E.g. ISCSI or Fibre Channel.

G'day Stig,
Just to clarify the original poster is using VMware Server 2.0 not ESX 2.x, so these are very different animals.

And for our two cents, in lightly used (eg < 50 users Windows Domain Controllers. etc) block I/O iSCSI has been fine. :-)
But, and forgive me if this is not the case, all of the posts I have seen from you refer to DSS Lite?(circa Jan 2008?) This is not the same core as the current DSS, and since Troffo has posted in the DSS forum I am assuming, again, that he is using the current version (Demo or Paid).
Our experience was that there were major improvements in iSCSI performance with recent versions of DSS. (And for anyone reading this post, align your local VMFS partitions! you won't be sorry if you do large sequential xfers.)

Rgds Ben

[To-M]

Thanks Ben on the ESXi info as you just saved me some time as I was thinking on setting up some servers this coming weekend.