What is the recommenden number of FA ports which can be mapped for a VMWARE ESX server from VMAX?

try to have even and odd FAs zoned to each HBA, if you have multiple engines  try to utilize them as well.

Yes, but my doubt now is how many FA ports I can map. What is the count of FA ports recommended?

Normally we map 4 FA ports, but is it recommended to go for 8 FA ports?

Also need to know if there is any primus/document, where it is mentioned about the count....

Each pair of FA ports is tied to a CPU.  Each CPU is capable of x number of IOPs.  So for one server, 2 ports may be plenty and for another server 8 ports may not be enough.  Assume that a CPU can do between 3,000-5,000 on average over a period of time.  More if the workload is mostly reads, maybe less if the workload is mostly writes.

It’s all about how many resources do you need. I have not see a document that say you must have 4 FAs or 8 FAs

consider the pair of FA are 11g:A,6g:A . Did you mean this 3K-5K IOPS shared between 11g:A and 11g:B? Or can i expect 3K-5K each from 11g:A and 11g:B?

Just want to clarify if the numbers as based on FA itself or the ports coming from them

11G A and B or 1 and 2 share the same CPU.

You should never use the 1 and 2 port ( or A and B port ) of one FA CPU for the same host.  It makes no sense.

so it sounds like from A and B ports together i am going to get only 3-5K; right?

As you said nobody uses A and B port on the  same host. But some other host is definitly going to use it. Regardless of the host which is putting the load, the load ends up  on the FA or the CPU managing them.

Again, never use the same CPU from 1 host.

The CPU can do anywhere from 3,000 to 30,000 IOs/sec with small block workloads, but the maximum depends on the IO type and the number of devices.  The 3-5k is a good planning number for lower than 100% utilization and most workload mixes.

What are you using for multi-pathing software?  PowerpathVE or the built in load balancing.  

So shall I drop a quetion here...
So what is the recommended IOPs for a particular FA port (for eg: 16G port 0)
Also what can be the IOPs for the whole direcctor (for eg: dir 16 which includes all FAs 16e 16f 16g and 16h), based on that I can decide....

Jose, I think I already answered your question on IOPs on a FA CPU (two ports).

There are 4 FA CPUs per director, 8 per engine and the IOPs scale nearly linearly.