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 implementations. Instead of creating a LUN for each VMware Virtual Disk (VMDK), with NFS you manage multiple VMDK files on a single NFS Volume. This makes sense because VMDK's are files, not actual disks.
To learn more and to read the entire article, please refer to the rest of the article at its source: NFS Saved By VMware? - George Crump - InformationWeek
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