File vs. Block Storage for VDI

http://blogs.citrix.com/2010/11/05/provisioning-services-and-cifs-stores-tuning-for-performance

http://searchstorage.techtarget.co.uk/feature/Block-vs-file-for-Hyper-V-and-VMware-storage-Which-is-better

http://searchservervirtualization.techtarget.com/tip/ISCSI-vs-NFS-for-virtualization-shared-storage

http://www.enterpriseefficiency.com/author.asp?section_id=2219&doc_id=248399

• VMware Hypervisors support NFS for file-based storage
• Hyper-V supports CIFS (SMB) for file-based storage
• Both support iSCSI block storage

http://blog.nigelpoulton.com/smb-3-0-best-feature-of-windows-server-2012/

http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh831653

• Hyper-V Server 2012 supports SMBv3