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On Fri, 2009-09-11 at 17:06 -0400, David Benjamin wrote: > Sean, > > How do you get around the limitations and performance issues of NTFS > running on top of NTFS or do you just throw hardware at it? > > Throw hardware at it, we have 8 dual-quad core amd servers with 32GB > memory running the VMs. No problems. Although the VM's are actually > running through 2GB bonded iSCSI on the NetApp SAN just three feet > away. NetApp is some flavor of *nix. <soapbox> The "flavor of *nix" is FreeBSD, which is found just about everywhere and in just about anything. </soapbox> Quote from blogs.netapp.com "Interestingly, our advanced ONTAP GX architecture is built on top of a full UNIX release. We took Data ONTAP, including WAFL and RAID, combined it with the new code from our Spinnaker acquisition, and hosted the combined result on FreeBSD in a combination of user processes and kernel modules. For security and simplicity we have disabled and hidden many parts of FreeBSD." Also for more info. http://www.prweb.com/releases/2008/06/prweb1042664.htm Barry [log in to unmask]