[BBLISA] NFS re-export or NFS proxy?
Tom Fitzgerald
tfitz at MIT.EDU
Wed May 19 13:11:44 EDT 2010
> "The hard way" is to attach both storage systems to VMWare
> machines and tell it to copy data from one to another. This requires
> service interruption while virtual disks are being copied and well as
> being a fairly inefficient way of going about the bit moving compared to
> what the 7210 gives me.
Are you sure about this? ESX 4.0 lets me migrate a VM's storage
from one datastore to another without taking it down.
Yes it's less efficient but unless the move is being handled by
ESX itself, there's no way to avoid a VM reboot when the storage is
re-pointed.
I can't speak for ESX 3.5.
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