Sun Microsystems 7000 - Manual (Page 4)

1.0 Objective
This Quick Start Guide is intended to give an administrator a quick overview on how to quickly set up
a Sun™ Storage 7000 Unified Storage System to use with a VMware ESX Server. Both NFS (NAS)
and iSCSI protocols are addressed. This document assumes the administrator is familiar with both Sun
Storage 7000 Unified Storage System concepts as well as VMware ESX concepts.
1.1 NFS (NAS) Access
The following diagram gives an overview of accessing the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System
using the NFS (NFSv3) protocol to host Virtual Machine Disk Format (vmdk). An NFS file system is
exported from the Sun Storage 7000 Unified Storage System and mounted using the vmkernel in the
VMware ESX host.
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Figure 1: NFS Access