Will NFS become the predominant storage deployment method for VMware implementations? NFS didn't need to be saved, but because of VMware its use has been broadened beyond the traditional Unix ...

Using NFS to store and boot virtual machine images is becoming an attractive option, and for obvious reasons NetApp has been promoting the use of its solutions as the perfect complement to a VMware on ...

I'd like to use two Windows Server machines running as NFS servers to host VM images for a machine running ESX server. I'd like all image data to be replicated from one of the NFS servers to the other ...

For a recent project, I built a completely virtualized vSphere lab. I already had to have a Windows 2008 R2 server in the lab for DNS/AD and I was trying to minimize the number of virtual machines in ...

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 ...

VMware vSphere is the dominant data center virtualization platform. This cheat sheet provides an introduction to what you need to know about vSphere. With all the talk of DevOps, containers, and ...

I'd also be interested in hearing about downsides. I've looked at NFS because I think it would be easier to manage, but others here fail to see the upsides to NFS as worth moving away from fiber ...