Performance, availability, and costs are all factors that should be considered when choosing a storage connectivity option. The following table provides a quick overview of the different storage connectivity options and how they compare with each other in terms of performance, availability, and costs:
|
Protocol |
Performance |
Availability |
Costs |
|
Local storage |
Good |
Fair |
Low |
|
Fibre channel |
Excellent |
Excellent |
High |
|
iSCSI |
Good |
Excellent |
Medium |
|
NFS |
Good |
Good |
Low |
|
FCoE |
Excellent |
Excellent |
High |
Direct attached or local storage is storage directly attached to a host. Since this storage is not shared, many VMware features will not be available for virtual machines hosted on the ...
