Create NFS datastore on NetApp StoreVault S550/S300

There has been alot of talk about NFS vs iSCSI and you can do a search yourself on google if you want to find out more about the difference. 

The main reason why I have chosen to use NFS is because you don’t get a single disk I/O so your performance is strictly dependent upon the size of the pipe and the disk array.  It is hard believe but NFS out performs both FC and iSCSI.

Creating an NFS on a NetApp StoreVault was very simple.  First you need to make sure you have the NFS license installed.

Launch StoreVault Manager

Right click on exports and click on manage exports

You will see two shares one is your NAS share and the other is your NFS share

Right click on exports go to add exports and click on browse exports

In your export share you can create a folder, I have named my vmware to state that it will be used by VMWare ESX Server.

Under vmware I have created another folder called vmds to state that it will be a VM datastore. You may want to create other folders such as an ISO folder to store your ISO images.