choosing filesystem for unified storage

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Published on 2010-04-21T10:59:25Z Indexed on 2010/04/21 11:03 UTC
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which file system can serve storage to Windows and VMware ESX clients?

planning a storage server box ~ 10TB using NexentaStor or FreeNAS. this has to serve Primarily Windows 2003, 2008 servers and occasionally VMware ESX. is that possible? please correct me if wrong.thx

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