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Appropriate StorageTek 6140 Storage Profiles for Windows2003R2 and ESX 4.0 and Recommended VMware Initiator

Asked by carnesc in Storage Technology, VMware, Hard Drives & Storage

Tags: san design, storage profile design, volume creation, vmware initiator, storagetek 6140

On my Sun StorageTek 6140 array, I need to create two vdisks, one for a single NTFS file server volume and another for a single VMFS volume. The file server is run-of-the-mill, and the VMWare volume will be shared between four ESX 4.0 blades. I think I'm going to use RAID 6, which excludes me from using one of the default storage profiles (copied below), and I need some help figuring out how best to configure the profile for each purpose.

Is anyone aware of a good reference that can tell me, for instance, what segment sizes are good for what applications, file systems, etc.? I think I've figured out that 64KB is good for the NTFS vdisk and volume, but I really don't know what would be best for VMFS. Any recommendations?

Also, I do not have an available VMware initiator host type, per se. I should probably just use an ordinary Linux initiator, right?

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DEFAULT STORAGETEK 6140 STORAGE PROFILES
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Name, RAID Level, SegmentSize, ReadAhead,  DiskType, Num Disks
#
Default, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, ANY, Variable
High_Capacity_Computing, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, SATA, Variable
High_Performance_Computing, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Mail_Spooling, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Microsoft_Exchange, RAID 5, 32 KB, Enabled, FC, 4
Microsoft_NTFS, RAID 5, 64 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
Microsoft_NTFS_HA, RAID 1, 64 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
NFS_Mirroring, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
NFS_Striping, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_10_ASM_VxFS_HA, RAID 5, 256 KB, Enabled, FC, 5
Oracle_8_VxFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, FC, 4
Oracle_9_VxFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, FC, 4
Oracle_9_VxFS_HA, RAID 1, 128 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_DSS, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_OLTP, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Oracle_OLTP_HA, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
RAID1-512KB-ReadAhead, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, ANY, Variable
Random_1, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sequential, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sun_SAM-FS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
Sun_ZFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
Sybase_DSS, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sybase_OLTP, RAID 5, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
Sybase_OLTP_HA, RAID 1, 512 KB, Enabled, FC, Variable
VxFS, RAID 5, 128 KB, Enabled, ANY, 4
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