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As long as you have separate LUN's (different disks and controllers) for your database files...
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As long as you have separate LUN's (different disks and controllers) for your database files...

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Hello,<br />
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What is the best RAID with 8 hard drives SAS 600GB, 15k tr/min 6GB/s (HP 517354-001) for virtualization server (VMware ESXi 6.5) ?<br />
Basically we have multiple applications (MS Active Directory, Terminal Server, Oracle, basic file server,...) , one with intensive Oracle Database operations<br />
There's two others array RAID5 SSD total 1TB and RAID1 300GB<br />
Thank you.<br />
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Best Regards.
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Hello,

What is the best RAID with 8 hard drives SAS 600GB, 15k tr/min 6GB/s (HP 517354-001) for virtualization server (VMware ESXi 6.5) ?
Basically we have multiple applications (MS Active Directory, Terminal Server, Oracle, basic file server,...) , one with intensive Oracle Database operations
There's two others array RAID5 SSD total 1TB and RAID1 300GB
Thank you.

Best Regards.

What best RAID for virtualization and 8 hard drives SAS 15k tr/min 6GB/s 600GB

Virtualization is the act of creating a virtual (rather than actual) version of something, including (but not limited to) a virtual computer hardware platform, operating system (OS), storage device, or computer network resources. Virtualization is usually the creation of a system that executes separate from the underlying hardware resources, or the creation of an entire desktop for systems located elsewhere, similar to thin clients.

Virtualization

Computer data storage, often called storage or memory, is a technology consisting of computer components and recording media used to retain digital data. In addition to local storage devices like CD and DVD readers, hard drives and flash drives, solid state drives can hold enormous amounts of data in a very small device. Cloud services and other new forms of remote storage also add to the capacity of devices and their ability to access more data without building additional data storage into a device.

Storage

RAID stands for Redundant Array of Independent Disks.

RAID is data storage technology that allows multiple drives to be used together as a single virtual drive for reasons such as fault tolerance, reliability and performance. 

There are several different levels of RAID that determine how the data is stored and the level of redundancy achieved across the drives.

RAID

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.