Important Note Regarding VMware over NFS. We ran into an interesting set of problems at work this week, all of them related to running virtual machines on VMware ESX over NetApp NFS.
While we haven’t yet determined the root cause for all of the problem, we did uncover the root cause for one of the issues, and additional testing seems to indicate that one of the other problems may also be suffering from the same condition. The problem seems to lie within some (now outdated) recommendations by NetApp for using NFS with VMware ESX. As late as June of this year, NetApp was recommending—via TR-3428, “NetApp and VMware Virtual Infrastructure 3 Storage Best Practices”—that users disable NFS locking on the storage system by setting the NFS.Lock.Disable to 1. Version 4.0 of TR-3428 was the version published in June of this year, and it still contained this recommendation. Message In A DNA Bottle - Forbes.com. Tech Manifesto » Turn your old PC into a File Server. RapidShare Webhosting + Webspace. Clonezilla, the opensource clone system.