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The server is already set up in RAID 10. It's na existing ESX server.<br />
Yes, separate VMDK instead of 1 VMDK and splitting the drives in Windows.
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The server is already set up in RAID 10. It's na existing ESX server.
Yes, separate VMDK instead of 1 VMDK and splitting the drives in Windows.

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Use different virtual disks, (vmdks) not partitions.<br />
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It's easier in the future, to increase storage space.<br />
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Partitions are old fashioned!<br />
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In the future you could also *MOVE* the Db and Logs disk to faster storage than the OS, if available.
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Use different virtual disks, (vmdks) not partitions.

It's easier in the future, to increase storage space.

Partitions are old fashioned!

In the future you could also *MOVE* the Db and Logs disk to faster storage than the OS, if available.

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We're creating a Win2008R2 server for use with SQL. &nbsp;We need 4 drives in total. Is it better to create 4 individual drives or 1 single drive and divide it up in Windows disk manager?
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We're creating a Win2008R2 server for use with SQL.  We need 4 drives in total. Is it better to create 4 individual drives or 1 single drive and divide it up in Windows disk manager?

Best practice for multiple drive VM creation

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.

VMware

Windows Server 2008 and Windows Server 2008 R2, based on the Microsoft Vista codebase, is the last 32-bit server operating system released by Microsoft. It has a number of versions, including including Foundation, Standard, Enterprise, Datacenter, Web, HPC Server, Itanium and Storage; new features included server core installation and Hyper-V.