We are using DSS to present NFS volumes to ESX. The underlying RAID setup currently is:
logical drive 1 is RAID 1+0: 8 x 300 GB drives for VMDK/virtual machine files
logical drive 2 is RAID 5: 4 x 300 GB drives for backup,snapshots,sync,etc.
I was wondering if that layout makes sense in trying to separate backup,sync,etc activity from production virtual machine activity? Or, would performance be better overall if I just RAID 1+0 all disks, more spindles, and carved up the storage as needed?
So, there are 12 x 300 GB drives in the storage server. What config makes sense? I am leaning toward performance over storage space.
Thanks,
SG