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I am re-doing some of my test lab stuff at home. &nbsp;I am going to be putting VMserver on a linux host. &nbsp;I am going to use software RAID b/c its a cheaper tower server without a hardware RAID card.<br />
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Anyways, I am going to use either 2 250GB drives in a RAID 1 or 3 250GB drives in a RAID 5<br />
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I have been reading on the different types of filesystems I can use on the host box(linux). &nbsp;It appears ext3 doesn't perform nearly as well as say Reiserfs etc. &nbsp;Do any of you have any experience with this? &nbsp;what would be the preferred file system time for a VMware host? &nbsp;From what i've read reiserfs is the fastest but you can't put a reiserfs partition on a guest OS when the host is reiser, but thats not a concern to me at all.<br />
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also I was wondering about the stride i should use on the RAID array. &nbsp;Since a larger stride is better for &quot;larger&quot; files would i use that since the vmdk files are very large files? &nbsp;or does it read into the vmdk files to write the &quot;small&quot; files meaning i should stay with a normal or smaller stride?
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I am re-doing some of my test lab stuff at home.  I am going to be putting VMserver on a linux host.  I am going to use software RAID b/c its a cheaper tower server without a hardware RAID card.

Anyways, I am going to use either 2 250GB drives in a RAID 1 or 3 250GB drives in a RAID 5

I have been reading on the different types of filesystems I can use on the host box(linux).  It appears ext3 doesn't perform nearly as well as say Reiserfs etc.  Do any of you have any experience with this?  what would be the preferred file system time for a VMware host?  From what i've read reiserfs is the fastest but you can't put a reiserfs partition on a guest OS when the host is reiser, but thats not a concern to me at all.

also I was wondering about the stride i should use on the RAID array.  Since a larger stride is better for "larger" files would i use that since the vmdk files are very large files?  or does it read into the vmdk files to write the "small" files meaning i should stay with a normal or smaller stride?

What type linux file system for VMware host?

Linux is a UNIX-like open source operating system with hundreds of distinct distributions, including: Fedora, openSUSE, Ubuntu, Debian, Slackware, Gentoo, CentOS, and Arch Linux. Linux is generally associated with web and database servers, but has become popular in many niche industries and applications.

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VMware, a software company founded in 1998,  was one of the first commercially successful companies to offer x86 virtualization. The storage company EMC purchased VMware in 1994. Dell Technologies acquired EMC in 2016. VMware’s parent company is now Dell Technologies.

VMware has many software products that run on desktops, Microsoft Windows, Linux, and macOS, which allows the virtualizing of the x86 architecture.  Its enterprise software hypervisor for servers, VMware vSphere Hypervisor (ESXi), is a bare-metal hypervisor that runs directly on the server hardware and does not require an additional underlying operating system.