Store data with the VM disks?

I read a few whitepapers that suggest a maximum number of VM are run by LUN.  That being said, the recommendation would be to "drive with the virtual machine shop", or on a separate data store?  In what senario would you do one of the two?

If you have group single disc less than 2 TB total in most cases there is no need to make separate data warehouses.

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