NFS datastore on vCenter ESXi hosts

I'm running out of space on our NAS storage.

Another unit would be very costly.

It seems easy enough to add an another data store from an NFS share.

Are there problems I should be aware of if I were to add an NFS share from a physical windows 2008R2 Server?

I understand that, since the part is right on a SATA drive performance will be bad enough.

I was thinking more just for backup.

Snapshots can be taken of vm that are located on a store of data VMFS5 and stored in a NFS data store?

There will be problems with the addition of shared NFS of different targets to the ESXi hosts.

However, put pictures on different levels is not a good idea. Snapshots in VMware products function as a string. When you create a snapshot, delta / only modified data is written and read in the snapshot files / delta. The parent files are still used, but opened in read-only mode.

Remember, a snapshot is not a backup!

André

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