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VMWare Intellisnap Subclient Datastore 4TB versus 8 TB Sizing and Best Practices


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Hi

We are building new datastore’s on a new storage array. We used many 4 TB datastores in VMWare which would limit the amount of VM’s within the datastore for the backups. We are thinking about doubling the size of our datastore’s to 8 TB considering the size of VM’s now a days. My question being is there a best practice or a max number of VM’s within a datastore backup using the IntelliSnap process? Are we better off using many 4 TB datastores versus fewer 8 TB datastores for VMWare IntelliSnap backup’s?

 

Thanks

Neil 

Best answer by Orazan

Neil,

Good afternoon.  The number of VMs within the datastore to be protected by Intellisnap has no Commvault limit.  The limitation would be on the environmental resources needed to support the operation.  As far as 8TB datastores vs 4 TB, there is no recommendation.  It will not make a difference to performance.

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  • Vaulter
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  • April 6, 2022

Neil,

Good afternoon.  The number of VMs within the datastore to be protected by Intellisnap has no Commvault limit.  The limitation would be on the environmental resources needed to support the operation.  As far as 8TB datastores vs 4 TB, there is no recommendation.  It will not make a difference to performance.


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  • Commvault Certified Expert
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  • April 6, 2022

Neil, same from my site, we have customers with 20tb of datastore size and they backup via intellisnap via commvault - should not be an problem 


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  • April 6, 2022

Thanks all!!


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  • Commvault Certified Expert
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  • April 6, 2022

you welcome no problem at all !


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