Hi all,
Just thought i would bounce an idea or 2 off some people here.
Basically looks like I will be hitting the 256 LUN limit for ESX, The issue is to do with P2Ving all the MSCS boxes.
I have a cluster which looks like it will be running out of space for LUNS, this cluster, one of many i manage is massive 32 high end hosts so we were already hitting 190 LUNS for the VM datastores.
early this week I was told they want to move all their MSCS clusters(currently consolidating as much as we can) The issue here is that each of the 50 clusters have 4 to 10 LUNS each(disk resources for MSCS)
What would be the best way to tackle this?
I was currently thinking along the lines of creating a new cluster of ESX hosts which will only hold the MSCS servers so it would give me full 256 LUNs to work with.
unfortunatly our data stores are at 500GB so ive been pushing to get 1TB LUN's assigned for datastores but this is a working progress, while this will help it doesnt solve the issue just delay it a little.
There isnt anyway to assign the LUNS directly to the Guest and not count towards the ESX LUN limit is there? Im using RDM's for the MSCS disk resources and as far as im aware these count towards the ESX LUN limit correct?
Cheers all