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by happythought 2584 days ago
VMware supports NFS as a storage backend so it ends up being used in a lot of storage arrays in Enterprise shops.

Gitlab.com was also using it as of last year, but I’m not sure if that’s still the case.
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muxator 2584 days ago
Yes, it has now been replaced by Gitaly: https://about.gitlab.com/2018/09/12/the-road-to-gitaly-1-0/
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happythought 2582 days ago
From the drawing, it looks like gitaly decouples git storage from the workers, but still uses NFS on the backend.
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zaphirplane 2584 days ago
VMware over NFS maybe used in SMB (small medium businesses) enterprises use iscsi or SANs

when the NFS server crashes bad things happen and if you are building a redundant multi master NFS it’s a lot simpler to use iscsi and FC SAN

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chousuke 2584 days ago
At my workplace we run VMware over NFS served by Netapp clusters. It's very stable, performs well, is easy to manage and has functioning HA. We used to have a SAN but Netapp worked well enough that it was decommissioned.

My favourite moment operating one cluster was when I intentionally caused a kernel panic and core dump on a live production system to gather debug info for an issue we were having. It had zero observable impact. :) Netapp is not cheap, but they seem to know what they're doing.

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