Hi,

Svein-Erik has already done a great job going over your questions. Only one thing to add from my side:

>  2.  Is shared LVM over a multipath FC device the appropriate storage configuration for this design?

If it's `what you have` it's fine. Just make sure you make your LUNs bigger than you have in VMware, since we can only use Thick-LVM as shared storage over FC. It won't use a lot more storage since usually the SAN does dedup, but we still need that free sapce to allocate to our snapshot chains (which are still a tech preview - works fine though in production)

Furthermore I can deeply recommend getting subscriptions for your Proxmox VE, our experience with support has been extremly good, to the point where we had a patch for our issue within 48 hours. (Any other vendors would be trying to blame shift the problem onto your `non-ceritified` <insert product name here> for at least a week /j).  


~ pheeef