create iscsi and nfs on free v8

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lenovo2
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 4:23 pm

hi all,

i'm testing starwind using free v8, can I create iscsi target and nfs at the same time?

thanks.
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Fri Aug 15, 2014 8:42 pm

Sure you can. But NFS will be hosted on top of iSCSI volume so with a single target it does not make sense - using NFS directly could be faster (NFS is very well RAM cached @ server side). Also if you use VMware vSphere NFS with StarWind is not recommended - iSCSI feed directly to VMware will be faster. VMware has properly written clustered file system (VMFS5) unlike MSFT so shares block volume between hosts just fine.
lenovo2 wrote:hi all,

i'm testing starwind using free v8, can I create iscsi target and nfs at the same time?

thanks.
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Anton Kolomyeytsev

Chief Technology Officer & Chief Architect, StarWind Software

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