Design consideration for storage should start with architecting VMware storage. It should follow the life cycle, starting with gathering and developing a technical specification; estimating cost, ROI, and TCO; developing high-level design for storage implementation; and following low-level considerations, such as IOPS, RAID, interface, controllers, cache, coalescing, storage workload catalog, storage alignment, and performance fine-tuning.
While designing your infrastructure, follow the PPP approach and the following key points will assist you further in creating a better design:
Choose a requirement-based vendor for storage. Ensure that storage vendor supports advanced vSphere features, such as VAAI and VASA, if these components are considered in your design.
Choose a homogenous or heterogeneous server and storage platform and identify whether in your design you have placed a blade or rack server, based on the identify protocol.
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