topic Re: SMVI 2.0 Scalability in ONTAP Discussions https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-2-0-Scalability/m-p/69263#M16190 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't have experience with SMVI&nbsp; 2.0 yet (soon), but on SMVI 1.0 we have 15 (very large 24CPU, 256GB RAM) hosts with 7 NFS datastore and about 425 VMs.&nbsp; I did notice that if I create a single schedule to perform the snapshots, I would get timeouts on disk on VMs and a lot of alerts about high latency.&nbsp; I created separate schedules for each datastore and staggered them by 10 minutes--all the latency issues and timeouts disappeared.&nbsp; This surprised me since I have filer based daily snapshots which all occur at midnight as a backup (in case SMVI is not functioning I still want snapshots).&nbsp; Those never caused timeouts, but I suspect there must be logic to handle that workload serially.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:10:18 GMT benjstarratt 2009-11-03T19:10:18Z SMVI 2.0 Scalability https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-2-0-Scalability/m-p/69258#M16187 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>Hi Community,</P><P></P><P>Does anyone know how SMVI 2.0 scales?&nbsp; I mean, how many virtual machines, datastores, clusters, ESX hosts, etc. can SMVI handle without getting timeout errors or just not working?</P><P></P><P>Thanks!</P><P></P><P>Jeff</P></BODY></HTML> Thu, 05 Jun 2025 07:22:22 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-2-0-Scalability/m-p/69258#M16187 berks 2025-06-05T07:22:22Z Re: SMVI 2.0 Scalability https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-2-0-Scalability/m-p/69263#M16190 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><P>I don't have experience with SMVI&nbsp; 2.0 yet (soon), but on SMVI 1.0 we have 15 (very large 24CPU, 256GB RAM) hosts with 7 NFS datastore and about 425 VMs.&nbsp; I did notice that if I create a single schedule to perform the snapshots, I would get timeouts on disk on VMs and a lot of alerts about high latency.&nbsp; I created separate schedules for each datastore and staggered them by 10 minutes--all the latency issues and timeouts disappeared.&nbsp; This surprised me since I have filer based daily snapshots which all occur at midnight as a backup (in case SMVI is not functioning I still want snapshots).&nbsp; Those never caused timeouts, but I suspect there must be logic to handle that workload serially.</P></BODY></HTML> Tue, 03 Nov 2009 19:10:18 GMT https://community.netapp.com/t5/ONTAP-Discussions/SMVI-2-0-Scalability/m-p/69263#M16190 benjstarratt 2009-11-03T19:10:18Z