Jay Schwegler

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I just wanted to see if I could get some best practices for virtualizing a file server in respect to semi-large data volumes. Note that this is a small setup, there is no SAN or Shared Storage in play here, just a large direct attached storage RAID 10 array on ESXi 6.7<br />
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Aside from the actual virtual machine and the boot/OS volume, I was planning on simply adding an additional 2TB disk to the VM that would house all the shares. Is there anything else I should be thinking about concerning this (other than probably thick provisioning it for the best volume performance)?<br />
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Simple question I know, but just wanted to get some opinions.
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I just wanted to see if I could get some best practices for virtualizing a file server in respect to semi-large data volumes. Note that this is a small setup, there is no SAN or Shared Storage in play here, just a large direct attached storage RAID 10 array on ESXi 6.7

Aside from the actual virtual machine and the boot/OS volume, I was planning on simply adding an additional 2TB disk to the VM that would house all the shares. Is there anything else I should be thinking about concerning this (other than probably thick provisioning it for the best volume performance)?

Simple question I know, but just wanted to get some opinions.

Virtualizing File Servers

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

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.