Provision and Manage VM Storage Resources
I am going to bullet point most of this as some of it has been covered before
- Vendor recommendations need to be taken into account
- Type of storage. E.g FC, iSCSI, NFS etc
- VM Swap file placement
- What RAID storage
- Use Tiered storage to separate High Performance VMs from Lower performing VMs
- Choose Virtual Disk formats as required. Eager Zeroed, Thick and Thin etc
- Initial size of disk + growth + swap file
- VM Virtual Hardware. E.g SCSI Controllers
- Types of disk. E.g Virtual Disk or RDM
- NPIV requirements
- Make sure you adhere to the vSphere Configuation maximums
- Is replication required
- Make sure you have a good idea of how much I/O will be generated
- Disk alignment will be required for certain O/S’s
- Are snapshots required
- Will the VM be fault tolerant
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