The Great Storage Debate

The last time I was at the London VMUG Julian Wood brought to my attention that people believe NFS storage is the better platform to use nowadays with vSphere. I still cannot get my head around this as I was always led to believe Block Storage out performance File Storage. I even have an old skool real-world example: I was told many moons ago that SQL and Exchange were optimised to work with block storage. So about 5 years ago a client came to me and asked me why his SQL server VM running off a NFS datastore was running like a dog. My answer was “simple you need block storage”. The client purchased at the time a CX300 and problem went away.  So anyway I want to get your opinion on this and I have created a poll for you to vote which you prefer.

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