Comments on: Storage Changes in the VMware vSphere 4 Family

By: Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure | My Etherealmind

Reasons For Using NFS With VMware Virtual Infrastructure | My Etherealmind — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 06:32:39 +0000

[...] exists only to allow legacy integration. It is also worth noting that VMWare has been touting its much improved iSCSI support in the new VMware vSphere (otherwise known as VMWare 4.0). People are acknowledging that iSCSI support in VMware 3.5 needed [...]

By: Welcome to vSphere-land! » Storage Links

Welcome to vSphere-land! » Storage Links — Thu, 07 Jan 2010 17:24:45 +0000

[...] magazine) IOPs? (Yellow Bricks) vStorage Multi Paths Options in vSphere (VMware Storage Blog) Storage Changes in the VMware vSphere 4 Family (Stephen Foskett) Putting your storage to the test – Part 1 iSCSI on Iomega IX4-200D (Gabe’s [...]

By: Shai

Shai — Fri, 03 Jul 2009 01:12:10 +0000

Hello Stephen,

Great post.
Is the new IOps number on a per ESX server, per VM, per HBA? what is the unit of encapsulation?
Also, is the PSA framework availabe for NFS data stores as well - an NFS datastore that can be accessed from multiple IP addresses/NICS/Devices.

Thanks.
Shai

By: Shai

Shai — Thu, 02 Jul 2009 21:12:10 +0000

By: sfoskett

sfoskett — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:41:12 +0000

Thanks so much! I'll update the post! We're still all sorting this whole thing out!

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Apr 2009 18:27:32 +0000

Stephen,
As a quick correction, all versions of ESX (even the Essentials one) includes vStorage API / VCB support. However, Standard and Essentials doesn't include vCenter Data Recovery, which is a standalone d2d backup solution targetting VMs. If you're leveraging a 3rd-party backup solution and just want to have the APIs available, it doesn't matter which version.
See this PDF: http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/vsphere_pricing...