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Thanks guys. &nbsp;This is exactly what I was after. &nbsp;I appreciate the guidance.
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Thanks guys.  This is exactly what I was after.  I appreciate the guidance.

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Hello all,<br />
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I am wondering if someone can give me an general idea of how these technologies are similar or not? &nbsp;<br />
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- Both SMB and NFS seem to be a network file share protocol means to communicate with remote block level storage. &nbsp;IE a protocol layer of abstraction. &nbsp;Is this correct?<br />
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- SMB3 seems to be Microsoft's weapon of choice for clustering and shared storage for VMs. &nbsp;While NFS seems to be one of the preferred ways for VMWare to connect multiple VMs to the same shared storage.<br />
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- &nbsp;Microsoft doesn't seem to officially like working on NFS with regards to VMs as VMWare doesn't like to work with SMB3.<br />
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This is what I have gathered from 30 minutes of ADD level 10 and three hours of sleep Googling. &nbsp;Is this roughly correct?<br />
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Please feel free to free-flow elaborate.<br />
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Thanks for the insight.
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Hello all,

I am wondering if someone can give me an general idea of how these technologies are similar or not?  

- Both SMB and NFS seem to be a network file share protocol means to communicate with remote block level storage.  IE a protocol layer of abstraction.  Is this correct?

- SMB3 seems to be Microsoft's weapon of choice for clustering and shared storage for VMs.  While NFS seems to be one of the preferred ways for VMWare to connect multiple VMs to the same shared storage.

-  Microsoft doesn't seem to officially like working on NFS with regards to VMs as VMWare doesn't like to work with SMB3.

This is what I have gathered from 30 minutes of ADD level 10 and three hours of sleep Googling.  Is this roughly correct?

Please feel free to free-flow elaborate.

Thanks for the insight.

SMB3 is to Hyper-V as NFS is to VMWare?

smbv3

Hyper-V is a native hypervisor; it can create virtual machines on x86-64 systems and supersedes Windows Virtual PC as the hardware virtualization component of the client editions of Windows NT. A server computer running Hyper-V can be configured to expose individual virtual machines to one or more networks. Hyper-V Server supports remote access via Remote Desktop Connection. Administration and configuration of the host OS and the guest virtual machines is generally done over the network.

Hyper-V

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.