A new NFS best practices white paper is now available. The paper looks at all aspects of using NFS in a vSphere environment. The paper was created with the assistance of our partners from EMC (Isilon), HDS & NetApp, and tries to find common agreement as to what are the best practices. It discusses networking configuration options, interoperability with other vSphere components and advanced settings. You can download the white paper from the VMware Technical Resources site here.
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Great paper Cormac! Thanks for updating it.
Did anyone notice the “IP Hash” text left in Figure 4 on page 8?
Sigh! I guess not. Thanks for the heads-up. We’ll get it cleaned up in the next draft.
We appreciate the Netapp VSC plugin for vCenter tuning our VMware NFS datastore parameters according to best practice. Does this paper raise issues that are not addressed by VSC ?
thanks
Obviously for NetApp, you should follow their guidelines. The parameters which are tuned by VSC are explained in the paper, and gives you a good idea as to why these settings are implemented.
Woohoo!
Great Paper Cormac! Did you guys discuss from a NetApp standpoint the .snapshot directory and if it should be hidden or visible? If not what’s your view on that?
Thanks Mike. We we going for a more generic approach with this paper, rather than calling out vendor specific configuration options. NetApp have their own BP paper for NFS, but if it doesn’t contain a .snapshot reference, I would reach out to them directly.