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Create a RAID 10 vdisk with all the 12 x 300 SAS drives, RAID 10 performs fastest for read and write performance. More disks = more spindles = more performance = more IOPS in the VDISK.<br />
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Once you have created your vdisk, I would then create three LUNs (600GB each) and present these LUNs to vSphere servers, which will be formatted as VMFS.<br />
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It depends on how much stortage you require, and the trade off between RAID 5 and RAID 10. 
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Create a RAID 10 vdisk with all the 12 x 300 SAS drives, RAID 10 performs fastest for read and write performance. More disks = more spindles = more performance = more IOPS in the VDISK.

Once you have created your vdisk, I would then create three LUNs (600GB each) and present these LUNs to vSphere servers, which will be formatted as VMFS.

It depends on how much stortage you require, and the trade off between RAID 5 and RAID 10.

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I have to setup a HP P2000 G3 SAN with 12 x 300GB SAS drives for 2 ESXi servers<br />
There will only be max around 12 VM's. They will include 2 x SQL &amp;&nbsp;1 x exchange 2010 VM's<br />
The site has approx 50 users<br />
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Can any on advise me on how to setup the storage &amp;&nbsp;why?<br />
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Please can you include the SAN vdisk/RAID, SAN &nbsp;volume &amp;&nbsp;vsphere datastore levels.<br />
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Thanks<br />
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I have to setup a HP P2000 G3 SAN with 12 x 300GB SAS drives for 2 ESXi servers
There will only be max around 12 VM's. They will include 2 x SQL & 1 x exchange 2010 VM's
The site has approx 50 users

Can any on advise me on how to setup the storage & why?

Please can you include the SAN vdisk/RAID, SAN  volume & vsphere datastore levels.

Thanks



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