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Creating seperate Datastores for each VMware Server

Dear VMware Experts,

I have a Server with 4x600GB SAS disks at RAID 6 configuration.
The actual total size under RAID6 is 1,09TB.

I am going to install the VCSA 6.0 (vcenter linux) and 2VMs with medium I/O.

I would like to create a Datastore for each of the following vmdk’s:

1 for the vCenter
1 for ISO Library (for mounting ISO's such as Windows etc.)
3 for the 2 VMS

Should I create partitions at Raid Controller Level or at vSphere Client Level and how?

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Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

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Carlos Ijalba

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Dear Andrew, as always your answers are rapid and to the point.
Dear Carlos, you helped to my final decision.

Thank you both!

Andrew Hancock (VMware vExpert PRO / EE Fellow/British Beekeeper)

We would not waste any important FAST SAS storage space on ISOS!

and just shove them on a slow NFS export, and present to ESXi!

Why waste FAST storage with Archived ISOS!?

They are only used once in a while to build VMs, and once you have Templates configured, you will always use them for Deploying VMs, not ISOS!

Waste of money, in our opinion!

Fast SAS storage is for VMs....