Yeah that seems to be the easiest answer, even if it's not ideal. That'll naturally limit the number of VMs per datastore. If we can manage to change policies to go with crash-consistent instead of app-consistent on most of our service levels, that'll help a lot too.
-Adam On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:55 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> wrote: > > Yeah, it's a hard balance to strike. Having one tool to do it all > makes training and support simpler and easier. But... if that tool > can't do it all as well as a specific tool, then maybe it's not a good > tradeoff to make. > > I don't have a good answer, but in some cases just pure $$$ costs > argues against going with more than one tool. Dunno... > > But getting back to the root cause, I think going with smaller > datastores is the best track here. > > Adam> The more we look into this, the more I think that trying to use > Adam> just one tool is going to mean that some part of the environment > Adam> isn't going to work well. Different tools have different > Adam> strengths. Our management is pushing for this one tool solution > Adam> as well, but it's causing some difficulties because of the > Adam> limitations. > > Adam> -Adam > > Adam> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 11:42 AM, John Stoffel <j...@stoffel.org> > wrote: > > >>>>>> "Ray" == Ray Van Dolson <rvandol...@esri.com> writes: > > Ray> On Tue, Oct 27, 2015 at 09:58:12AM -0400, John Stoffel wrote: > Ray> <snip> > > >>> We're going to have the same type of problem down the line too, and > >>> I've used CommVault (on FC SAN volumes), a little bit of Veeam, and > >>> we're moving to Netbackup with Snapmanager on NFS datastores. > > Ray> Out of curiosity, what made you move away from Veeam? > > Adam> Politics, licensing, trying to consolidate down to one tool (if > Adam> possible). The usual. > >
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