EqualLogic & large virtual file shares. 4 TB +.

Hello

We have accumulated a large amount of raw video and it begins to grow at 2 TB per year.

We currently have a virtual windows file server with an OS of RDM level to Equallogic volume.

Is - that the best way to continue to 10 GB + or have us think differently?

vVols?

Thank you

Damien

Hello Damien,.

I'm sorry but I'm not sure what you're asking.

EQL supports up to a volume of 15 to. Type of GPT partition supports this format. Depending on how your data is stored, you can use several volumes of inside the VM with RDM.  (letters of different drives or mount points)   That would avoid the use of dynamic disk and extend volumes.  Each virtual machine can have four adapters virtual SCSI with 15 drives on each card.  Which is about 900 TB per server. Instead of using RDM, you can use the inside the guest MS iSCSI initiator to connect to EQL volumes. Who removes this limit of 900TB.   That would allow to use the Host Integration Toolkit for Microsoft.  Improved MPIO and uniform/snapshot replication.   Also add support SCSI UNMAP to W2K8 R2 &. He was born in 2012 & R2.

Re: 10 GB +, I'm assuming you mean 10 Gb Ethernet?   10GbE doesn't impact much the size of storage if you grow only at 2 TB per year.  There are benefits to 10GbE, of course, if you intend to go anyway.

vVols works very well as RDM.  So not real huge advantage here.

Questions I would have is what the IO load you currently see?  From SANHQ.  What is your current EQL HW and ability?   The latest addition to the EQL family, the 6610 has up to 84 drives each and you can have 16 of them in a single group.  That is a huge amount of space with 6TBG readers, 1.3PT of RAW capacity.

Kind regards

Don

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