The main advantage to using NFS comes if you are exposing the repository path to other, remote management nodes, especially if those nodes wouldn't ordinarily have direct access to your SAN (i.e. over iSCSI, etc).
Aaron Coburn On Jun 9, 2014, at 3:35 PM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello, > > I wondering if there is a benefit to using the NFS datastore versus a SAN > Datastore for my repository path? > > > David DeMizio > *Academic Systems Coordinator* > Office of Information Technology > New College of Florida > Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 > www.ncf.edu > > > On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 1:43 PM, David DeMizio <[email protected]> wrote: > >> So I can use the SAN datastores that are visible to my two esxi for my >> Repository >> path and also for my VM Working directory path?. Currently I have 4 300 >> gig SSD configure for local storage which I plan on using for Virtual >> disk path. Am I better off have two raid 1 ( one for Virtual disk path >> and another for VM working directory path ) the other nonssd is where >> esxi is installed, no other local storage. 6 disk in both esxi hosts , 4 >> ssd and 2 nonssd for esxi. >> >> >> David DeMizio >> *Academic Systems Coordinator* >> Office of Information Technology >> New College of Florida >> Phone: 941-487-4222 | Fax: 941-487-4356 >> www.ncf.edu >> >> >> On Mon, Jun 9, 2014 at 12:59 PM, Josh Thompson <[email protected]> >> wrote: >> >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- >>> Hash: SHA1 >>> >>> On Monday, June 09, 2014 10:06:14 AM Mike Haudenschild wrote: >>>> Also, I haven't even touched the issue of vMotion here, which changes >>> the >>>> conversation about shared-vs-local storage a lot. If your use case for >>>> vMotion is about planned ESXi host maintenance, you can always migrate >>> VMs >>>> away from a host-to-be-rebooted to other hosts via the VCL Web UI (any >>> VMs >>>> with active reservations will be placed in a pending state). vMotion >>> for >>>> HA with VCL local storage is a different story. >>> >>> If you use the VCL Web UI to remove a VM that has an active reservation >>> from a >>> VM host, it will create a sort of place holder reservation that starts at >>> the >>> end time of the active reservation and tells vcld to remove the VM from >>> the VM >>> host at that time. Then, once the active reservation has completed, the >>> VM >>> will be stopped and unregistered on the VM host. >>> >>> Josh >>> - -- >>> - ------------------------------- >>> Josh Thompson >>> VCL Developer >>> North Carolina State University >>> >>> my GPG/PGP key can be found at pgp.mit.edu >>> >>> All electronic mail messages in connection with State business which >>> are sent to or received by this account are subject to the NC Public >>> Records Law and may be disclosed to third parties. >>> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (GNU/Linux) >>> >>> iEYEARECAAYFAlOV6AIACgkQV/LQcNdtPQPloACfd2Tl35wjyVTDqedvwsECEb9h >>> o7IAnRzRcHQFQYUd+tIZAXE/opcyFlJr >>> =TO0a >>> -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- >>> >>> >>
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