Good day
Currently we have multiple v5.5 clusters setup, each with its own sets of datastores that it used.
There was a request to make all datastores visible to all clusters:-
example:-
VC1 - Cluster A(16 nodes) - Datastore1-10
VC2 - Cluster B(16 nodes) - Datastore11-20
VC3 - Cluster C(16 nodes) - Datastore21-30
VMware administrator wish to make consolidate all 3 clusters under 1 vcenter and make all datastores visible to one another
VC1 - Cluster A(16 nodes) - Datastore1-30
- Cluster B(16 nodes) - Datastore1-30
- Cluster C(16 nodes) - Datastore1-30
the total number of vm hosted is around 1000, total storage assigned is around 300TB
The goal is to allow vm to move freely between clusters should there be an issue with resource or service upgrade.
Is this best practice? I googled around and found some articles mentioned that its NOT best practice to do so but there were not any hard facts backing this statement up.
I am looking for some best practice article to list the pros and cons of such approach
many thanks
Andy