Drives and SCSI controller
Probably a stupid question, but on my Exchange 2010 VM I have 5 discs and 1 controller pvscsi, would I get better performance with 5 scsi controllers? somewhere along the line, I heard that it was recommended, thank you all!
The maximum scsi by VM controller is 4, the best practice is separate BONES of data. A single controller for your OS vdisk and a controller for rest or any high IO vdisk. I would recommend reading Exchange recommended server virtualization, it goes into detail... Here is the link for Exchange 2010 on VMware http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/exchange-2010-on-vmware-best-practices-guide.pdf
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