My lab consists of pretty basic hardware, but still, it's interesting to see performance benefits using different solutions. So I decided to see if there were any performance differences between using 2008 R2 NFS and Starwind iSCSI as storage for VMs. So I had this XenServer 5.6 FP1 running on a HP ProLiant ML115 G5. Then I had a ML115 G1 model with several disks in it, I decided to do all tests on a basic SATA 500 GB disk [...]
Categories: Virtualization, Windows
I've added a couple of XenServer 5.6 FP1 to my lab which also includes some Hyper-V and ESXi. To get some shared storage, I installed a 2008 R2 machine and installed NFS to be able store VMs on it. Here's how I did it. On the NFS-server, use Server Manager to Add Roles... or Add Role Services if the File Service role already is installed. You're installing the Services for Network File System. After installation, create a folder, for example [...]
Categories: Virtualization, Windows
