Hi All,
We are in the process of restructuring our datastores to take advantage of SRM. We have 60 vm's that have iscsi attached volumes ranging from 20gb to over 3tb. I am stuck on deciding whether to use pass-through on each of these volumes, or configure them as vmfs volumes. Secondly, if I went with moving the data to vmfs, do I create a single vmdk for each volume or do I put multiple vmdk's under a couple different vmfs volumes of around 2tb of size? I do have some concerns around the performance of multiple disks under a single datastore. However the issue I am faced with is the amount of connections on these volumes because we use Equallogic. We are limited in the amount of sessions we can establish. We also use the Equallogic MPIO which increases the connection count substantially for each vmfs volume since they are accessible to all hosts in the cluster.
Curious if others have some opinions on a strategy that would work best for this kind of situation.
Thanks