Today we had a discussion with a storage admin who is advocating for NFS. This is for an environment of about 3000 VMs running on UCS with primarily VMFS storage. Neither is better. If you have a ...

The VMWare Cluster Locking File System, version 3 (VMFS-3) Is one of the core technologies used in VMWare ESX/vSphere 4 virtual infrastructure environments. Unfortunately, it's also a completely ...

We have been having an internal debate, not really so much a heated fists to face kind of debate, but more discussions, around the merits or performance impacts of running mySQL databases across NFS.

It is possible to have a few number of large NFS datastores, but it is also a valid configuration to leverage a larger number of smaller NFS datastores. This may or may not be on multiple storage ...

CAMBRIDGE, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Infinio Systems, the leading provider of software-based storage acceleration for VMware, announces the release of version 3.4 of Infinio Accelerator software. With ...

In a prior post, I mentioned that vStorage VMFS is one of my favorite elements of a VMware-based virtualization solution. With vSphere, the good news is that no ...