Hi , I'm going backwards with a request I hope someone might be able to shed some light upon.
I have a customer who needs to create ~30 vms in their environment, to be used by a separate part of their organisation, and they want to have them as 'separate' as possible - from a security / network point of view but also as much 'physical and performance separation ' as possible for the New vms. Basically the message I'm getting is they don't want any trouble from them :>.
So , apart from the networking side , from the storage aspect 'physical separation' I'm thinking could tie-in alot with performance and they both could mean alot of things. The ESX's are on c7000 enclosures using VC FC Modules, the storage is 3Par , SDRS is not enabled, datastores are not clustered , the Hosts are.
For performance I've looked at resource pooling , SOIC (constrained by physical stuff going on down in the shared disks doesn't seem to be appropriate here ) , for 'separation ' we've even looked at using dedicated physical storage carved into 3Par a common provisioning group (would compromise the 3Par functioning), or a Dedicated vSphere Datastore ( although it could provide 'separation', Host I/O could be held up by the new vms potentially affecting the original ones).
The datastore would provide as close to what they want as i can see , the next step would be to dedicated some ESX hosts but I suspect I'm missing more than one option, any ideas gratefully received !
Many thanks