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Re: BEst PRactice to create one large LUn or small LUN

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Hello MrVmware9423,

It would be better to go ahead with two Lun's of 2TB each. Saying that, it always depends. Single big lun and smaller lun both has its positives and negatives.

 

A single bug lun would be easier to manage, but it will host more number of VM's. In that case locking would be more. it is always suggested to have somewhere around 15 - 20 VMs per LUN (server grade). Again it varies depending on the VM size and stuff. Also when you have  a single lun of big size the IOPS would also be limited to the backing disks only related to those LUNs.

 

Whereas more smaller luns would be complex to manage, but would result in lesser lock and IOPS would be distributed over LUN's.

 

For further reading you can check these:

 

http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-55/topic/com.vmware.ICbase/PDF/vsphere-esxi-vcenter-server-55-storage-guide.pdf

http://www.vmware.com/pdf/Perf_Best_Practices_vSphere5.5.pdf

 

Also check the following:

 

vSphere Documentation Center

You might want fewer, larger LUNs for the following reasons:

 

More flexibility to create virtual machines without asking the storage administrator for more space.

More flexibility for resizing virtual disks, doing snapshots, and so on.

Fewer VMFS datastores to manage.

You might want more, smaller LUNs for the following reasons:

 

Less wasted storage space.

Different applications might need different RAID characteristics.

More flexibility, as the multipathing policy and disk shares are set per LUN.

Use of Microsoft Cluster Service requires that each cluster disk resource is in its own LUN.

Better performance because there is less contention for a single volume.

 

 

Saying the above 2TB Lun size with 15 to 20 VM per datastore seems to be sweet spot for most of the cases


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