In my quest to upgrade my machine (going to be 9.10.2), I need advice on sharing.
I currently have a dataset shared via iscsi. I have a vmware virtual machine that is attached to it. That machine then shares it to my users.
My performance is horrid with 25 meg/sec transfer rates.
I need to make a change.
I have been advised to not use FreeNAS AD/SMB as a share mechanism for the 25+ users who would access the data, even though throughput was 100+ meg/sec in testing. I was told that i might have permission problems in the future as well as other issues (I want to have AD permissions).
I was advised to present a vdmk to the hypervisor directly (via iscsi) and then make the drive visible to the VM, which in turn would share it with my users.
I am relatively new to vmware and FreeNAS (4 year user) but it seems to me that this 'best practice recommended configuration is still doubling traffic through the vmware/FreeNAS connection.
Any advise would be appreciated.
I currently have a dataset shared via iscsi. I have a vmware virtual machine that is attached to it. That machine then shares it to my users.
My performance is horrid with 25 meg/sec transfer rates.
I need to make a change.
I have been advised to not use FreeNAS AD/SMB as a share mechanism for the 25+ users who would access the data, even though throughput was 100+ meg/sec in testing. I was told that i might have permission problems in the future as well as other issues (I want to have AD permissions).
I was advised to present a vdmk to the hypervisor directly (via iscsi) and then make the drive visible to the VM, which in turn would share it with my users.
I am relatively new to vmware and FreeNAS (4 year user) but it seems to me that this 'best practice recommended configuration is still doubling traffic through the vmware/FreeNAS connection.
Any advise would be appreciated.
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