According to the link bellow, VMWare will only use a single TCP session for NFS data, which means you're unlikely to get it to travel down more than one interface on the VMware side, even if you can find a way to do it on the solaris side.
http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/06/a-multivendor-post-t o-help-our-mutual-nfs-customers-using-vmware.html T -----Original Message----- From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org [mailto:zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org] On Behalf Of Brent Jones Sent: Thursday, 2 July 2009 12:58 PM To: HUGE | David Stahl Cc: Steve Madden; zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, ESX ,and NFS. oh my! On Wed, Jul 1, 2009 at 7:29 PM, HUGE | David Stahl<dst...@hugeinc.com> wrote: > The real benefit of the of using a separate zvol for each vm is the > instantaneous cloning of a machine, and the clone will take almost no > additional space initially. In our case we build a template VM and then > provision our development machines from this. > However the limit of 32 nfs mounts per esx machine is kind of a bummer. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: zfs-discuss-boun...@opensolaris.org on behalf of Steve Madden > Sent: Wed 7/1/2009 8:46 PM > To: zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > Subject: Re: [zfs-discuss] ZFS, ESX ,and NFS. oh my! > > Why the use of zvols, why not just; > > zfs create my_pool/group1 > zfs create my_pool/group1/vm1 > zfs create my_pool/group1/vm2 > > and export my_pool/group1 > > If you don't want the people in group1 to see vm2 anymore just zfs rename it > to a different group. > > I'll admit I am coming into this green - but if you're not doing iscsi, why > zvols? > > SM. > -- > This message posted from opensolaris.org > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > > _______________________________________________ > zfs-discuss mailing list > zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org > http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss > > Is there a supported way to multipath NFS? Thats one benefit to iSCSI is your VMware can multipath to a target to get more speed/HA... -- Brent Jones br...@servuhome.net _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss ______________________________________________________________________ This email has been scanned by the MessageLabs Email Security System. For more information please visit http://www.messagelabs.com/email ______________________________________________________________________ _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
