A SAN virtual disk/lun/volume cannot be shared between servers unless they are clustered (and/or use a cluster-aware filesystem (like VMFS or GFS)). With raid 10 more drives pretty much means more performance independent of your read/write ratio (unlike parity based raid where writes get slower the more drives you add, so high write ratio IO could actually get slower with more drives). However, splitting into 2 6-disk raid 10's does mean that if one of the 2 is being used heavily, the other isn't affected by this (so you can split your high IO data between the 2 diskgroups).
Hello Everyone,We have a MD3600F, it has a 12 600SAS drives, and I was hoping you can help me decide how to handle the Raid and Lun creation.this san will store everything we have:- VMware VM's- SQL databases (about 5)- Exchange database- Users folders and profiles- ArchivesI was planning to create a large raid 10 array (all drives) and dump everything in it, but after some reading, it might be better to separate them and create several raid arrays, at least one for the DB's.so my questions are:- Is it better (performance wise) to break the Large raid to two/three smaller raids?- If yes, will it perform better on a raid 1 (two drives, I can't spare more than two drives for the DB's) than on the large raid 10?Thank you for your help and time.
One Large Raid vs Multiple Raids