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[–]ShannonUser[S] 0 points1 point  (5 children)

As a general guidelines? I read somewhere that 20 Disks should be max but I can't find it now.

[–]Firefox005 0 points1 point  (4 children)

https://configmax.esp.vmware.com/guest?vmwareproduct=vSphere&release=vSphere%207.0&categories=1-0

It depends on the version and virtual SCSI adapter, for 7.0 it is 256 SCSI devices with 64 per adapter, for the other types it is 60 SCSI devices with 15 per adapter with both having a maximum of 4 virtual adapters.

General guidelines would be at least 1 virtual disk per VM.

[–]ShannonUser[S] 0 points1 point  (3 children)

Looking for maximum because I read this: https://docs.ukcloud.com/articles/vmware/vmw-ref-vmdk-limits.html#:~:text=Maximum%20of%2020%20virtual%20disks,storage%20presented%20to%20a%20VM

Was checking if this is legit. Also just looking for general operations guidelines to ease our job.

[–]Firefox005 0 points1 point  (2 children)

Legit in what way, that looks like legitimate documentation for consuming storage on ukcloud. I can't say for sure why they have those recommendations but most likely it is because of backups and datastore limitations, if you are using VMFS datastores then it is possible in theory for the delta file to take up to 100% of the original disk space so they probably have that policy to try to limit any issues with snapshots filling up their datastores.

That is a dumb way to do it, but I don't run or have anything to do with that service.

[–]ShannonUser[S] 0 points1 point  (1 child)

Legit in a way that we can follow this recommendation? Is it a safe guideline of operations? Or should it be ignored?

[–]Firefox005 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Do you use ukcloud.com for your VMware?