NAS workload performs poorly compared to local disk or SAN
Applies to
- Any Hypervisor or SAN client
- Any version of Data ONTAP
Issue
- When copying a folder with multiple small files, a local drive copies in less time than copying to or from a NAS share or between two different NAS shares
- After migrating a server from a physical host to a VM, overall performance of the VM is poor in comparison from a disk latency perspective
- Performance may be up to 10x slower on a CIFS share or NFS export compared to a comparable SAN LUN or local set of disks copying files