Just to clear out the vmware stuff. ESXi + ZFS I've run production with a thumper 4540, solaris10 (before dedup:) ,48 drives, one pool, NFS through 1 GB to ESX(+ESXi) on dedicated NICs ZFS snapshots always proved to be consistent data to ESX = ESX or ESXi depends on your needs NFS (leaves all filesystem management to your ZFS OS) 1 GB dedicated NIC is enough for operation (peaks, as everything else eg. fiberchannel, when moving data across) ZFS OS could be whatever you prefer (Solaris, OpenSolaris, FreeBSD...)
Hope this helps someone
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