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December 18th, 2025 15:28
Design-Datastores-Intercluster traffic
I have a Dell PowerStore 5200T cluster with two appliances.
For presenting storage to my VMware infrastructure, I divided the datastores into two separate groups. In vCenter, I also created two separate Storage Clusters, where each storage cluster is mainly associated with one appliance.
The goal of this design was to minimize inter-appliance traffic (ICD) and avoid frequent data movement between the two appliances.
As we have already known, the embedded port 0 consists of two bonded 10Gb Ethernet interfaces.
hence, Maybe inter-appliance traffic become a bottleneck between the two appliances?
My concern is whether more traffic could lead to excessive data movement between appliances and potentially impact performance.
Is this design approach correct and aligned with Dell PowerStore and VMware best practices? What is the effective way for this purpose?


