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I would encourage you to use Nutanix based snapshots and stay on Nutanix NFS where possiable. There are limitations around hypervisor based snapshots. The below KB states hypervisor based snapshots "Negatively impacts the performance of a virtual machine." http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1009402
From some quick testing of 3.5.3 if you split up the Bootlayersarchive into seperate containers you can get around a 50% improvment. My testing was with vSphere 5.5 and 128 desktops. It will be your mileage may vary. It will really depend on how many files that vSphere has to scan.
container to container replication isn't needed, it would all have to be site up at the production domain level, you could have vm's in a containter that went go replicated to different sites.
Generally speaking the recommendation is to run a proxy on each host so you pull the changes from the local flash. Veeam has released a patch where customers that had problems are seeing improvments. The Veeam patch is located here: http://www.veeam.com/kb1854
Just through scripting today. Question for you though, Would you like a default protection domain set per container or at the cluster level? Or should the cluster have a default and then the container overides the global setting?
Hi CampbellNZ I haven't heard of any update from VMware. The only work around today is to create small containers for the VM's. Here are two links explaining the current issue for people that might not know. http://www.unidesk.com/support/kb/unidesk-configuration-considerations-nfs-based-storage-including-nutanix-your-boot-images http://nutanix.blogspot.ca/2013/10/unidesk-on-nfs-taking-about-minute-to.html
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