SUMMARY Some years ago we were faced with the choice of which storage network protocol to use in our virtualized environment. Central to the discussion was a white paper, co-authored by Netapp and VMWare, comparing throughput and CPU utilization for NFS, FC and iSCSI. Broadly speaking the paper concluded that the differences in throughput were trivial, and for CPU … Continue reading NFS vs Fibre Channel: Comparing CPU Utilization in VMWare