Hello I would not create multiple virtual disks across the drives, if that is what you are referring. Slicing should only be done if necessary. I'm not sure if storage pools will be possible. I think storage pools are part of storage spaces direct, I could be wrong on that. Storage spaces direct will only work with an HBA, if S2D is required for pools then I don't think that option will be available for the H710. Also, RAID 6 requires a minimum of four disks. If you only have three disks then you could create a RAID 5. You can find storage controller manuals on this page: [URL] Thanks
Hi, Silly Noob question I'm afraid :manembarrassed:. so sorry in advance. I have windows server 2016, and h710p pecr with 8 x 3tb drives installed. This is my server for a lot of media and photos for which I have backups, so my questions are this. Should I just use OpenManage to make a Raid 6 and also to make virtual disks? Then use them as a partition under windows? or Make Raid 6 in OpenManage then use windows server to see the drive as a storage pool, so as I can then thin provision as I like? and if i do should I set the allocation size under windows the same as dell OpenManage raid strip size. also should I make one big raid 6 array or lots of small ones? underOpenManage? Been looking for best practices on this but can't find anything.
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