How many linked clones per datastore?

[HendersonD]

View 5.1 with a backend Pure Storage solid state array

Windows 7, 32bit golden image, fully optimized

Currently have 240 linked clones sitting on a single datastore

The single lun carved out on the Pure Storage is bound to two iSCSI interfaces over 10GB ethernet

I have read that with vSphere 5.1 the max VMs per lun is 128

Should I split my View VMs across three luns?

How do I go about doing this? Just not sure how I tell a bunch of linked clones to split themselves evenly across multiple luns

[gmtx]

Should be as simple as creating the new LUNs/datastores, adding them to your ESX hosts, editing the View pool to add the new datastores, and then rebalacing the pool.

Edit: Should have made the rebalancing part more explicit - Tell View to rebalace the pool - it will handle distributing the VMs to the LUNs based on free disk space.

Geoff

[mittim12]

Are you utilizing VAAI?   If so, according to Andre's article, http://myvirtualcloud.net/?p=3245, you can go up to 140 per datastore but if not then it's still best practice to do 64.