I just wrapped up a Breakfast ‘N Learn at one of my customers on the topic of Storage Best Practices for VMware Environments.  A storage agnostic view of things to keep in mind on the storage side of your VMware deployments.

Here is a quick hit of the server storage best practices that should be of value to all VMware users:

• Deploy a tiered storage approach
• Use a separate LUN for templates
• Standardize LUN sizes within tiers
• Handle exceptions on a case-by-case basis
• Avoid use of extents
• No more than 1 VMFS volume per LUN
• Deploy all virtual discs for a server on the same VMFS volume

For more details check out the VMware Resources for Virtual Storage portal.