Simple question today boys and girls. Is there any performance benefit to deploying VMs form a template on an iSCSI or NFS share? The reason I wonder about this is because of the way the ZFS uses ARC. If you deploy from a template, will it cause all the VMs to refer back to the data in the template? If so, I suspect that the ARC will become massively more useful.
Of course, this is all speculative and probably depends heavily on how VMware handles template deployments at a lower level, which I'm not too familiar with. I'm guessing one of the smart people here do though :)
Of course, this is all speculative and probably depends heavily on how VMware handles template deployments at a lower level, which I'm not too familiar with. I'm guessing one of the smart people here do though :)
