topic Re: NFS calculate Bandwidth in Network and Storage Protocols

NFS calculate Bandwidth

DANIELSOARES — Thu, 05 Jun 2025 06:31:23 GMT

Hello

I want to use NFS datastore with a netapp filer for virtualisation with ESX5

but I do not know how to estimate the necessary bandwidth for my infrastructure

I have 50 vms using a vfs of 2 X 1Gb ethernet nics for the nfs

thanks for your help

Re: NFS calculate Bandwidth

crocker — Tue, 27 Mar 2012 15:16:28 GMT

and is this question one that your team handles or should it be addressed in the NetApp Support Community for Filers?

Mike

Re: NFS calculate Bandwidth

crocker — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 17:53:09 GMT

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Re: NFS calculate Bandwidth

t_kumar — Thu, 29 Mar 2012 18:34:30 GMT

I am not quite sure what you are behind; But you can get the bandwith if you know the the IOPS and the IO size.(andwidth =IOPS*IO size)

The maximum you can get out of 2* 1Gbps line is around 2*110MB considering you have configured your NFS clients to make best use of both the interfaes. Remember that the bandwidth you get mostly depend on the io size and io type (sequential versus random) etc.