To work with a SAN and vMotion virtual servers configuration

Hi all:

I apologize in advance if this discussion is too much like another.

I intend to use the following configuration (not yet deployed) and would appreciate your comments and input:

2 physical host servers running VMware ESXi

1 SAN Fiber Channel

high availability and vMotion

I just have a few questions:

(1) then I keep all the VHD on the SAN files?  (I intend to have VHD files separate OS disk and DATA drive for each virtual computer).

(2) is it recommended that I have all the hard drives the on host computers physical (to run virtual machines or anything else like swap files)?

(3) how much space I have on the SAN?  I guess too much for the readers of the OS and DATA readers of all virtual machines... it's any additional space recommended for anything?

(4) everyone would be able to direct me towards guides describing how to set up?

Sincerely,

Kahn

(1) then I keep all the VHD on the SAN files?  (I intend to have VHD files separate OS disk and DATA drive for each virtual computer).

Yes you can, and just a tip, on VMware world the virtual disk is called VMDK :-)

(2) is it recommended that I have all the hard drives the on host computers physical (to run virtual machines or anything else like swap files)?

You can use the same physical host computers without the hard drive, because you can boot from SAN, or use features such as automatic deployment, but it is the facility for the virtual machine, my recommendation is to use disks (volumes) of your San and share this volumes between your hosts to be able to configure High Availability (HA). Without shared storage, you can not HA.

(3) how much space I have on the SAN?  I guess too much for the readers of the OS and DATA readers of all virtual machines... it's any additional space recommended for anything?

Space on SAN depends on the size of your virtual machines and little extra space to make room for Exchange and snapshot files.

(4) everyone would be able to direct me towards guides describing how to set up?

The documentation will have everything you need: VSphere 6.0 Documentation Center , but if you want some guide step by step and with video/screen, see this one: BackToBasics | Mike Landry...

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