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msuvanto
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‎09-09-2014 09:05 AM

VCD single cell limitations? 5.1x - 5.5x

I am trying to find a official vmware document or whitepaper stating the best practices or limitations on how many Org's or/and VM's/vApps a single cell can comfortably support.

Talking about a fairly redhat 6.4 running as a VM on a recent AMD based blade with 16-24GB ram and 4 cores dedicated to the VCD.

Also in the paper if there is any notes on special precautions when dealing with single cell.

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IamTHEvilONE
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‎09-09-2014 09:13 AM

You are really just lacking fail-over capabilities.  The scale is more about how many vCenters you attach to the vCloud Director application, and how many concurrent users (web and console) you might have at a given time.

But if you're deploying a RHEL (or CentOS) VM, is there any reason why you wouldn't just make 2?  It would have a requirement of an NFS share as a loose cluster drive, and possibly a load balancer (or just use DNS round robin).

The distribution of load is much nicer, especially if you have multiple vCenters to be added.

The thing you'll want to look at is the performance tuning white paper : http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/techpaper/VMware-vCloud-Director51-Perf.pdf

this paper should cover most/everything you should need.    

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