topic Re: SME Best Practice Exchange 2010 in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SME-Best-Practice-Exchange-2010/m-p/55868#M13154 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Performance wise it mostly depends on your hardware configuration.</P><P>If you have iSCSI offload card I think you cannot use them inside the vm but should use them from ESXi hosts.</P><P>If you have iSCSI dedicated cards ESXi can multipath (I've not tried it) iSCSI connections and probably balance the traffic.</P><P>If you're using 10gb cards you can use vmxnet3 inside the VM and have the 10gb link inside the vm (so it should not be a problem).</P><P></P><P>The difference is mostly in configuration and DR scenario, this document is really good at understanding a good DR configuration using RDM/VMWare SRM/Snapmirrored volumes: </P><P><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3822.pdf" target="_blank">http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3822.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:28:43 GMT f_duranti 2012-02-15T21:28:43Z SME Best Practice Exchange 2010 https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SME-Best-Practice-Exchange-2010/m-p/55863#M13152 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I have a question about the use of SME for Exchange 2010 in a VMware environment.</P><P></P><P>What is the best solution to use:</P><P></P><P>1. iSCSI LUN's within the VM guest (created with SnapDrive)</P><P>2. RDM iSCSI LUN's, als created with SnapDrive</P><P></P><P>Is there a document, Best Practice, which tells me what is the best solution, in a performance perspective, to use.</P><P></P><P>All input is welcome.</P><P></P><P>Regards, </P><P>Berend Schotanus</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:34:40 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SME-Best-Practice-Exchange-2010/m-p/55863#M13152 berendschotanus 2025-06-05T06:34:40Z Re: SME Best Practice Exchange 2010 https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SME-Best-Practice-Exchange-2010/m-p/55868#M13154 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Performance wise it mostly depends on your hardware configuration.</P><P>If you have iSCSI offload card I think you cannot use them inside the vm but should use them from ESXi hosts.</P><P>If you have iSCSI dedicated cards ESXi can multipath (I've not tried it) iSCSI connections and probably balance the traffic.</P><P>If you're using 10gb cards you can use vmxnet3 inside the VM and have the 10gb link inside the vm (so it should not be a problem).</P><P></P><P>The difference is mostly in configuration and DR scenario, this document is really good at understanding a good DR configuration using RDM/VMWare SRM/Snapmirrored volumes: </P><P><A class="jive-link-external-small" href="http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3822.pdf" target="_blank">http://media.netapp.com/documents/tr-3822.pdf</A></P></BODY></HTML> Wed, 15 Feb 2012 21:28:43 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SME-Best-Practice-Exchange-2010/m-p/55868#M13154 f_duranti 2012-02-15T21:28:43Z