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ISCSI SAN with esxi 5 large volume vs multuple smaller volumes

we recently purchased a new equalogic ISCSI SAN. we plan to use it for our vmware infra which our 7 hosts are using about 7TB spread over their local storage.

my question is we would like to connect our 7 hosts (approx 70 vm's) to the san but are unsure if it is better to create 1 big volume lets say 12TB with one datastore on it or multiple smaller volumes with multiple datastores.

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8/22/2022 - Mon
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IanTh

you will need a very good connection for that many vm's too wheter its 1 large lun or several smaller luns
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I would like to know how the asker got it resolved surely some of the comments where helpful?
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