Unless people have VMs that are very large (>500GB) we normally recommend using LUNS somewhere around 500GB in size for presenting to ESX 3 hosts. Does this make sense for an HP EVA array as well? I mean as opposed to using larger LUN sizes like 1.5 TB each? Why or why not?
Here's some helpful posts...
http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=335803񑾻
LUNS - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?messageID=333672񑝨
LUNS Size - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=36725&start=0&tstart=0
Larger LUNS = More Disks = More Performance - http://www.vmware.com/community/thread.jspa?threadID=84843&tstart=0
And these are good to read also...
Vmware Infrastructure 3, HP StorageWorks best practices - http://h71019.www7.hp.com/ActiveAnswers/downloads/VMware3_StorageWorks_BestPractice.pdf
SAN Configuration Guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_esx_san_cfg.pdf
SAN Conceptual and Design Basics - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/esx_san_cfg_technote.pdf
SAN System Design and Deployment Guide - http://www.vmware.com/pdf/vi3_san_design_deploy.pdf
Choosing and Architecting Storage for your Environment - http://download3.vmware.com/vmworld/2006/adc0135.pdf
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Well, the EVA does not care. A single virtual disk that is only 1 GigaByte big can be spread over all disks in a disk group, even if the group has the maximum size of 240 disk drives.
If you split into 2 virtual disks, you can assign both to different controllers to use their CPU and cache memory.
Having many, many VMFSes might not be a good idea, because you will have much scattered free space. Do you remember the times when servers had multiple smaller disks and you had to move data around, because there was always ample space free on the wrong[/b] disk?