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What is your recommedation for 3 - 250GB SAS and 4 600GB SAS. How would you do raid configuration for ESXi host and with which one as datastore?
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What is your recommedation for 3 - 250GB SAS and 4 600GB SAS. How would you do raid configuration for ESXi host and with which one as datastore?

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both as datastores<br />
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RAID 5 - 3 X 250gb<br />
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RAID 6 - 4 x 600gb
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both as datastores

RAID 5 - 3 X 250gb

RAID 6 - 4 x 600gb

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RAID 5 - 3 X 250gb or RAID 1 - 2 X 250gb + hot spare as in previous post? &nbsp;Just wondering :)
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RAID 5 - 3 X 250gb or RAID 1 - 2 X 250gb + hot spare as in previous post?  Just wondering :)

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What about 4 - 600gb disks?
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I posted already....<br />
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RAID 6 - 4 x 600gb
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What is the difference of oem esxi 6.5 from dell and from vmware?
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What is the difference of oem esxi 6.5 from dell and from vmware?

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the oem version is made by DELL for DELL servers and contains drivers and configuration to interface with hardware better.<br />
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see here<br />
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<a href="http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2016/10/23/dell-s-customization-of-vmware-esxi-and-its-advantages" rel="ugc nofollow">http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2016/10/23/dell-s-customization-of-vmware-esxi-and-its-advantages</a>
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the oem version is made by DELL for DELL servers and contains drivers and configuration to interface with hardware better.

see here

http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2016/10/23/dell-s-customization-of-vmware-esxi-and-its-advantages [http://en.community.dell.com/techcenter/b/techcenter/archive/2016/10/23/dell-s-customization-of-vmware-esxi-and-its-advantages]

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If i have esxi 5.1 installed using vmware iso on dell poweredge, can I upgrade it to 6.5 using dell oem iso?
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If i have esxi 5.1 installed using vmware iso on dell poweredge, can I upgrade it to 6.5 using dell oem iso?

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I have dell poweredge r710 with below hard drives:<br />
3 - 250GB 7.2k SAS<br />
4 - 600GB 15k SAS<br />
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I was thinking this raid configuration:<br />
3 - 250GB 7.2k SAS on raid 5 (this partition to install ESXi 6.5 host)<br />
4 - 600GB 15k SAS on raid 6 (this partition as datastore for VMs)<br />
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Is this recommended or there is something which can be done better? Please advise.
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I have dell poweredge r710 with below hard drives:
3 - 250GB 7.2k SAS
4 - 600GB 15k SAS

I was thinking this raid configuration:
3 - 250GB 7.2k SAS on raid 5 (this partition to install ESXi 6.5 host)
4 - 600GB 15k SAS on raid 6 (this partition as datastore for VMs)

Is this recommended or there is something which can be done better? Please advise.

Dell poweredge r710 raid configuratoin for ESXi 6.5

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