> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of > Steve Shockley > Sent: Tuesday, November 23, 2010 8:45 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: ESXi client / NFS server performance > > On 11/14/2010 1:04 PM, Steven Surdock wrote: > > Greetings, I'm attempting to use an OBSD 4.8-stable machine as an NFS > > server for storing snapshots from an ESXi 3.5 server. Unfortunately > > my NFS performance seems relatively poor at about 55 Mbps (6 MBps). > > I've found ESX performance over NFS is horrible unless you're doing async > mounts or using an NFS server that "cheats" with sync mounts (like a > NetApp filer where it writes to NVRAM and sends the response before it's > actually on disk).
Is there a way for force async mounts to a OBSD NFS server? There doesn't seem to be a way to force async on an ESXi client. It appears other OSs allow forcing through an /etc/exports option. Thanks. -Steve S.
