We plan to create a vApp that will consist of 3 Windows 2008 R2 VMs. Those VMs currently consume the following disk space:
VM1 = 1.5TB
VM2 = 70 GB
VM3 = 300 GB
We have 7 Organizations that will use this vApp.
It seems that in vCloud Director, creating multiple large (2TB) datastores would be the best solution, but I cannot find good documentation to back this up. The technical whitepaper called "Storage Considerations for VMware vCloud Director" http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMW_10Q3_WP_vCloud_Director_Storage.pdf concludes with:
In summary, it is best practice to:
• Build Provider VDC with large dedicated datastores (generally 1TB)
This whitepaper was written for vCD 1.0 and we are using 1.5.
The recommended 1TB datastore won't even hold VM1, never mind the entire vApp with the 3 VMs.
So the question is what is the best way to size & create the datastores so we can optimally place the vApp template, shadow copies and linked clones for this rather large vApp?
Thank you in Advance for any suggestions or recommendations.
