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3 Replies Last post: Feb 7, 2007 7:51 AM by cheeko

Problems with ESX 3.01 NFS on a Windows 2003 Server R3 Standard

Feb 6, 2007 11:33 PM

Click to view Buck76's profile Novice Buck76 21 posts since
Apr 5, 2006
Hello.
In order to publish a low budget filer within our infrstructure we decided to install a windows 2003 Standard Server (R2) and to configure "NFS Server" which is part of "unix tools" whicht Microsoft created.

Connecting to the NFS share as an external NFS storage is not my problem, this works great. But when I want to lay there some files (e.g. copying from an internal storage to this NFS storage) it´s very awful because of the performance. All transactions to or from the NFS file system are very slow, I cannot start any vmware containers for example because getting timeouts.

The NFS Server is configured out of the box with simple user mapping. I only deactivated the permanent user authentification.

Has anyone any ideas???

Thanks a lot
Thomas
Re: Problems with ESX 3.01 NFS on a Windows 2003 Server R3 Standard Feb 7, 2007 1:55 AM
Click to view Ub's profile Novice Ub 24 posts since
Feb 1, 2005
I had this problem too, forcing the speed and duplex setting on the windows Nic fixed it
Re: Problems with ESX 3.01 NFS on a Windows 2003 Server R3 Standard Feb 7, 2007 7:16 AM
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Click to view Buck76's profile Novice Buck76 21 posts since
Apr 5, 2006
Thank you for reply. Now i have changed network speed on both sides to 1000 Mbit Full Duplex (setting was Autoneg.) but still have the same problems.

In order to get more information, I have installed a NFS client on another Windows server in the same network. The speed is also awful so I think, it is not a vmware problem.

Thanks.
Re: Problems with ESX 3.01 NFS on a Windows 2003 Server R3 Standard Feb 7, 2007 7:51 AM
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Click to view cheeko's profile Master cheeko 628 posts since
Nov 30, 2005
Try openfiler (iscsi) or iscsi target ... yes it's linux, but performance will better than Windows hosted NFS, I'd say.
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