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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide
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The Complete VMware vSphere Guide

by Mike Brown, Hersey Cartwright, Martin Gavanda, Andrea Mauro, Karel Novak, Paolo Valsecchi
November 2019
Beginner content levelBeginner
768 pages
32h 29m
English
Packt Publishing
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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 ...

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