If we look at the way a virtual machine (and a physical machine, indirectly) runs, the most important resources are RAM and CPU. Disk storage is (sort of) secondary. The exception to this is streaming media or backup servers. Typically, performance difference is minimal.
Does Vmware have Microsoft Vista properties? You know, we’ll just chuck it in at the end and pray it works.
iSCSI, as a storage option, has less performance than fibre channel ie. it is limited to the speed of the HBAs or the network card being used, however it is far cheaper and I can leaverage my existing infrastructure to put in an iSCSI SAN. The problem becomes, in a TCP/IP network, how do I [...]