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I have purchased 2 new DL380G7 Servers without drives. I want to deploy ESXi on both servers so I can deploy Vmotion. What are your recommendations for the number of drives in each server, the prefered raid arra for the server drives, and the appropriate drive size. I'm considering 300Gig drives. Second question, what is your recomendation for a storage system, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NAS? Thank you.
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I have purchased 2 new DL380G7 Servers without drives. I want to deploy ESXi on both servers so I can deploy Vmotion. What are your recommendations for the number of drives in each server, the prefered raid arra for the server drives, and the appropriate drive size. I'm considering 300Gig drives. Second question, what is your recomendation for a storage system, iSCSI, Fibre Channel, NAS? Thank you.

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