I need to set up a temporary NFS server. I was thinking of creating a virtual machine, running NFS file services on it and adding a second hard disk. I have several attached LUNs available, and want to simply add a second disk to my VM and carve out a few hundred GBs, then share this out as an NFS mount point.
But I want to make sure I get at least moderately good performance. It would probably be better performance to add a iSCSI connection/LUN directly to this VM, but I don't have that available at this time.
So if I simply add a second HD and point to an existing datastore - what is the best format for this? Meaning - independant, independant persistant, etc. - and in what format? Eager vs. Lazy, thick vs. thin?
Thank you