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SAN Server Specs Question

Hi Gurus,

I'm shopping for my first SAN...Essentially, it's a poorman SAN.  The Server I'm looking at is a HP Proliant DL180 G6 and I'm using OpenFiler as the SAN software to use with Vsphere.  

Now my question is, how do I determine how much RAM I'll need on the SAN box and how much RAM will I need on my Vsphere server?  My assumption is that the RAM for the VMs will be allocated from the Vsphere Server and that the RAM on the SAN will be for the SAN Server to do it's own local processing...is that correct?

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hmmm...I checked and the DL180 G6 is on Vmwares HCL.

Anyways, thanks for the great advise...I've been using ESX on a maxed out ML350 G5 server for our test environment and wanted to extend clustering and such for our Exchange/Sql, and other servers.

With that, I had a question that I've been curious about, for best practices, in a SAN environment, are all VMs and Vdisk data resided on the SAN or, are VM paritioned OS, i.e. Windows CDrive, resided on the ESX host RAID Array and the VDisk data resided on the SAN RAID Array?
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got it...thanks.