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jenish_shah
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Contributor
‎08-06-2008 08:08 PM

Can a single be shared between more than one storage pool?

Can anybody please tell me if we can share a single big size LUN among more than one storage pool?

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mcowger
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Immortal
‎08-06-2008 08:12 PM

You want to put more than 1 VMFS on the LUN? Is that your goal?

If so, yes, that is possible.

--Matt

--Matt VCDX #52 blog.cowger.us
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jenish_shah
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Contributor
‎08-06-2008 08:46 PM

Thanks Matt..

Can you please provide me some procedure/doc which explains how to create storage pools which shares single lun?

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Texiwill
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Leadership
‎08-07-2008 05:27 AM

Hello,

The rule is 1 LUN 1 VMFS. The reason is that ESX locks the entire LUN so if you have multiple VMFS partitions on a single LUN you will soon have pretty major contention. This is just not recommended.

Could you give more detail on what you are trying to achieve?


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Edward L. Haletky

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As well as the Virtualization Wiki at http://www.astroarch.com/wiki/index.php/Virtualization

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