On Jul 28, 2010, at 3:11 PM, sol wrote: > A partial workaround was to turn off access time on the share and to mount > with > noatime,actimeo=60 > > But that's not perfect because when left along the VM got into a "stuck" > state. > I've never seen that state before when the VM was hosted on a local disk. > Hosting VMs on NFS is not working well so far...
We host a lot of VMs on NFS shares (from a 7000 series) on ESXi with no issues other than an occasional Ubuntu machine that would do something similar to what you describe. For us it was this: http://communities.vmware.com/thread/237699?tstart=30 when the timeout is set to 180 the issue has been completely eliminated. The current ESXi (and I think all versions of 4) VMWare tools does this properly. Also, EMC and NetApp have this description of using NFS shares for VMWare: http://virtualgeek.typepad.com/virtual_geek/2009/06/a-multivendor-post-to-help-our-mutual-nfs-customers-using-vmware.html which by and large applies to any NFS server rather than just their equipment. We found it helpful, but nothing is that surprising in it. Good luck, Ware _______________________________________________ zfs-discuss mailing list zfs-discuss@opensolaris.org http://mail.opensolaris.org/mailman/listinfo/zfs-discuss
