[BBLISA] Faster than 1G Ether ... ESX to ZFS

Edward Ned Harvey bblisa4 at nedharvey.com
Thu Dec 9 07:38:02 EST 2010


> From: bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org [mailto:bblisa-bounces at bblisa.org] On
> Behalf Of Edward Ned Harvey
> 
> Also, if you have a NFS datastore, which is not available at the time of
ESX
> bootup, then the NFS datastore doesn't come online, and there seems to be
> no
> way of telling ESXi to make it come online later.  So you can't auto-boot
> any guest, which is itself stored inside another guest.

Someone just told me about
	esxcfg-nas -r
So yes, it is possible to make ESX remount the NFS datastore in order to
boot the other VM's.  The end result should be something which is faster
than 1G ether, but not as fast as IB, FC, or 10G.



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