VMWare vmfs vs NFS datastore with vmdk?

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Published on 2012-03-19T22:21:42Z Indexed on 2012/03/19 23:31 UTC
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I want to add a new harddisk to an existing VM and want the best performance possible. The new hard disk will exist on an NFS datastore. Currently I did the following:

Created new vmdk on NFS datastore
Created new lvm partition using fdisk
Create new physical volume, volume group, and logical volume (2TB)
Created ext3 partition on logical volume

Is there a better way to do this? Should I be doing some vmware-ish file system instead?

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