Performance comparisons of FC, iSCSI, and NFS for VMware vSphere
Which protocol produces the best performance for vSphere? That is a question NetApp recently published a whitepaper about. The paper compares the performance of FC, iSCSI, and NFS connected storage along with the gains made in protocol optimization with vSphere as compared to VI3.
Some interesting information from the report states “…there is very little difference between the performance results of any storage protocol when running VMware on NetApp. This first graph is one of many showing I/O throughput.”
I would have thought there would a little more difference. More tests were performed with 10GbE for NFS and iSCSI showing little discrepancy.
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