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Vsphere 4&5 design QA spreadsheet

Hello Experts,

I am looking to build or get a spreadsheet with the following information:

. Datacenter design best practices and most typical questions/answer

. Host. How many host per datacenter, number of processors, number of NIC, best practices and typical QA

Storage: What type of storage will be required, type, allocation, best practices,

Networking: number of vSwitches per DC, best design practices

I am trying to build a spreadsheet based on a number of QA, and best practices for design

Can you help me with this? Please be aware this is a consulting question, and not a typical troubleshooting question

Nagendra Pratap Singh

I guess there is no real answer to number of hosts per datacenter.

Min is 1 and max would be a very large number. One would keep adding these if the need is there.

number of processors: More is better but sometimes it is better to scale out than use a heavy server.

Something like 6 + NIC is better. This would allow redundancy.

vSwitches : If I need it, I will add it.

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

Hosts per Datacentre - 436

Processors per Host - 1U Servers Dual Processors

NICS per Host - 10 NICS

Storage - Tiered Storage, Fibre Channel (FC disks), SAS and SATA, iSCSI Disks (FC 15k, SAS and SATA)

Large Datacentre - we use distributed switches and Nexus 1000V

Jerry Seinfield

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Thanks Folks

Can you please attach some links/PDF/spreadsheet about design Vsphere4&5 best practices?

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Nagendra Pratap Singh

So it means

One should aim for 436 Hosts per DC?

Vsphere 4&amp;5 design QA spreadsheet

Vsphere 4&5 design QA spreadsheet