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mkirkbride
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LUN Sizing on with EMC VNX and vSphere 5.

So we have a new EMC VNX, which is my understanding that it will stripe a new LUN across all disks.  So from an IOPs perspective, 4-2TB LUNs is the same as 1-8TB LUN  (assuming same VM's in each config).  Other than trying to get load balancing across both controllers, is there any other advice on LUN/Datastore sizing?  We are currently using mostly 2TB (really 1.95) on the VMFS 3 LUNs, but with VMFS5 are wanting to have fewer larger LUNs/Datastores.  I know the maximum is ~60TB now, but what is best practice?

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