for SAN, which is best, iscsi or nfs?

[Jae Lee]

im trying to setup a SAN but i'm not sure which is best, iscsi, nfs, or others?
i'm more concerned about performance more than anything, would like to hear your experiences. thx.

 

[spirit]

I think it's depend of your iscsi or nfs implementation in your san.

I'm using nfs with netapp , I can get around 50000io/s.
I'm using nexenta with iscsi, I can get also around 50000io/s.

Avantage of iscsi, you can share a lun between 2 vms.(if you need to do some sql cluster by exemple)

 

[Jae Lee]

thx spirit. and correct me if i'm wrong but, is iscsi a more secure approach than nfs?