VSA 10 TB limit

[M.Braak]

Hi,

Does anyone have any update on the increase of the 10TB limit of the vsa?
I thought it would come with the 10.5 release but no luck so far

[oikjn]

guess it got suck with the SMI-S support and unmap. 

HP.  PLEEEEEASE don't forget about StoreVirtual.  This was a great product and still could be, but not if you stop developement or don't communicate about its roadmap. 

[5y53ng]

Nah and it stinks.  I have had good results running multiple VSAs per host, but it costs more money and has to be implemented properly.

[RonsDavis]

What is the trick to make multiple VSAs work on one host?

Separate NICs/vSwitches, RAID Controllers?

I've done it with ample resources, but haven't split those two, and I can defintely tell things are well with two or more VSAs on one host. 

[5y53ng]

On ESXi 5 I had to increase the VMFS heap size to allow 20TB of local storage to be attached to the VSAs. I also set the order of the VSAs in the cluster to ensure a host failure or reboot wouldn't result in an all volumes unavailable scenario.

With multiple 10GB NICs I have been running the VSAs on the same dvs pg without any latency issues. I only have a single p420i RAID controller, but 25 spindles seems to handle the IO from two VSAs without any issue.

[cheazell]

I really am hoping HP get the increase sorted out soon. I'm hoping for 24TB.