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NFS in general seems to struggle with that scenario. Do you get better performance with your own NFS server with that type of workload?

A NetApp filer on 40 Gbit/sec will do NFS plenty fast for running VMs directly to/from the system using ESXi for example.

EFS is not even in the same ballpark in terms of speed :/

Right, I’ve had that setup in the past and I wouldn’t disagree with that but I’ve also seen a netapp choke on lots of tiny files over NFS.

Unrelated to EFS, but I found Gluster to have good performance for this use-case vs. NFS/CIFS.