Книга: Mastering VMware® Infrastructure3

Adaptive Scheme

Adaptive Scheme

We'll start by introducing the adaptive scheme because of its simplicity. The adaptive scheme involves creating a small number of larger LUNs for the storage of virtual machines. The adaptive scheme results in fewer requirements on the part of the SAN administrator, less effort when performing LUN masking, fewer datastores to manage, and better opportunities for virtual disk resizing.

The downside to the adaptive scheme is the increased contention for LUN access across all of the virtual machines in the datastore. For example, if a 500GB LUN holds the virtual machine disk files for 10 virtual machines, then there will be contention among all of the virtual machines for access to the LUN. This might not be an issue, as the virtual machines' disk files residing on the LUN may be for virtual machines that are not disk intensive — that is, they do not rely heavily on hard disk input/output (I/O). For the adaptive scheme to be a plausible and manageable solution, VI3 administrators must be proactive in monitoring the virtual machines stored together on a LUN. When the performance of the virtual machines begins to reach unacceptable levels, administrators must look to creating more LUNs to be made available for new or existing virtual machines. Figure 4.7 shows an implementation of the adaptive scheme for storing virtual machines.

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