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Do you know the IOPS that the &quot;mega&quot; system will be using? is it mostly read or mostly write, or a mixture? if its a vendor supplied application I would get there advice on it. 
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Do you know the IOPS that the "mega" system will be using? is it mostly read or mostly write, or a mixture? if its a vendor supplied application I would get there advice on it.

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Which one of these connections are you utilizing. <br />
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Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, and Direct Connect
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Which one of these connections are you utilizing.

Fibre Channel, iSCSI, FCoE, and Direct Connect

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You may want to split disk groups to keep the raid seperate for the higher iops VMs. From there just setup the vdisks. 
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You may want to split disk groups to keep the raid seperate for the higher iops VMs. From there just setup the vdisks.

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We will be using Fiber channel<br />
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IOPS for the mega system is unknown. &nbsp;A congestion threshold could be implemented for the mega systems, as they would not be critical/production systems.
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We will be using Fiber channel

IOPS for the mega system is unknown.  A congestion threshold could be implemented for the mega systems, as they would not be critical/production systems.

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I have 6 terabytes of LUN space allocated to me from a EVA 8400 and 4 VM hosts<br />
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I expect to start with 60 virtual systems averaging around 30-50GB each, but I'm going to have 3-4 very large systems as well up to 500gb in total disk space. &nbsp;<br />
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Will three 2 Terabyte LUNS with 8bit block sizes averaging 15-25 small systems plus 1 mega system each be feasible contention wise? &nbsp;I expect the large systems to be QA related SQL databases and standard file servers and the small systems to be 80% file/web servers and 20% SQL databases.
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I have 6 terabytes of LUN space allocated to me from a EVA 8400 and 4 VM hosts

I expect to start with 60 virtual systems averaging around 30-50GB each, but I'm going to have 3-4 very large systems as well up to 500gb in total disk space.  

Will three 2 Terabyte LUNS with 8bit block sizes averaging 15-25 small systems plus 1 mega system each be feasible contention wise?  I expect the large systems to be QA related SQL databases and standard file servers and the small systems to be 80% file/web servers and 20% SQL databases.

EVA 8400 SAN and VM performance

VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.