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Re: No of VMs per datastore as a Best Practice

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Hi,

 

I've seen best pratice tips around 10-20 vmdks per LUN. But I don't think those numbers are generally valid because it depends on so many factors that differ in every environment. For example:

 

What type of disks do you use ( SATA / SAS / SSD )

How many disks?

What RAID level?

What IOPS do the VMs generate? More read or more write?

Is it one vmdk per VM or is the VM splitted into, e.g. C:-vmdk D:-vmdk

etc.

 

If you want hard numbers: During SAN maintanance I once had 60 system-vmdks (C-partitions and /-partitions) on a single RAID-5 LUN of 11 SAS disks. Had no impact on the user experience, but the read/write latency shown in vSphere was not that nice

 

 

 

Regards


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