NAS Appliance as VM

[wings7351]

Hi, I am just wondering if anyone has tried setting up NAS appliance as a VM. the question is what kind of netowork and disk performance you can get out of it. Of course this is assuming vmware-tools were installed. I have Solaris in my head but unsure of what I can get out of it in a VM environment. I know it is better to set it up as a seperate box but in my case it would be better if I could consolidate the hardware into one box.

Would appreciate it if anyone can share the experience. Thanks.

[ShanVMLand]

It is better to be an seperate box rather than VM. There will be a bottleneck always. Other hosted VMs, might face congestion.

Shan

[AndreTheGiant]

It can work, but only for testing purpose.

There are also some virtual appliance with similar scope, like the iSCSI Virtual SAN.

In any case in production is better to have real storage (or physical system) with good RAID configuration.

Andrea

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