VM and SAN bottle neck issue?

Hi all

I would like to see an Exchange 2007 server and an Exchange 2007 Edge server, but I am concerned about the saturation of my to the San fiber connection.  I guess the best way to ask this question will be to give an example.

You have a system blade with 3 blades in it.  All 3 blades running ESX 3.5 in a clustered with HA, DRS, Vmotion, VC, etc environment and connect to a San, which has a giant lun configuration in a RAID 10 for the data store for your ESX servers

Now, if your Word to say running 4-8 another Vm in this current configuration and 2 more than the virtual computer with Exchange 2007 and Exchange Edge server now turn my question is, the disk i/o or optical fiber connection can be a bottle neck? and if so how do you control ESX to define what VM has the priority on disk i/o or for the creation of fiber paths?

My second question is that best practice Microsoft recommends that you install Exchange 2007 in any of 3 sets of discs.  C:\ for installation files, hard E:\ drive F:\ for the database and transaction logs.  This is recommended as an increase in speed as readers do not have to look far to find the necessary information for the constant questioning is Exchange.  Now in a virtual environment connected to a lun giant machine, 3 creating separate virtual disks recommend or add any increase in speed, or would it be better to just create a giant virtual disk (drive C:\) and leave such as, like its all on the same SAN / Lun.

(1) I see that fiber media would be a bottle neck, your disk IO can be subseptable to a neck of the bottle.  It depends on your San and what other kinds of virtual machines you already use on your logic unit number.  We have divided our SAN LUN ~ 1 to 1.5TB to be able to put our servers to heavy disk i/o on different LUNS to spread the load.  We run our server as well as a strong virtual appliance in front of it and we haevn can't seen any problems with our FC SAN, and that runs on fiber 2Gig

(2) I would always break it down into 3 files vmdk, just so that you always treat is as a 'physical' server and follow best practices.  Another advantage to this is if you need to expand the space, its much easier to develop a file vmdk non-OS is to extend the OS vmdk file.  Performance wise that you could always get better performance from their split.

  • Kyle

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