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3.5.3 out now, and another update not far away I believe. We ran 5.5 out of the box on a new install with 3.5.2.1. I'm looking to 5.5U1 because Vmware never get it right until the U1 update just as MS never get it right until SP1. They should call all initial version releases gammas, third level testing into real world situations - gotta love those multi-billion$ software firms....
What other design issues are in their NFS stack I wonder? I notice snapshots on Nutanix under NFS are way slower to delete than on my old iSCSI SAN, and stun times can reach 6 seconds - which causes my VMware 5.5 update manager to disconnect from vcenter during a backup (as they have to be on different VMs if you use the VC appliance). That is a scary implication for customer database servers and their related application servers, and I'm seriously considering implementing iSCSI again (as I believe you can do as well with Nutanix) because I think VMware NFS is flaky as hell.
Nutanix snapshots are great (and very fast) for protecting whole VMs, but when you need more granular recovery like file then it's often better to use third party backup tools that rely on VMware snapshots. Looking forward to NOS4.0 as there appear to be big improvments in the Nutanix Protect features, and I note Veeam have an increased convergence with Nutanix, so maybe I try that product as well to see if it solves my snapshot blues on VMware.
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