  Your ESXi installer will see 2 LUNs. A smaller one which you have to select as installation target and a larger one. On the larger one you will later create a VMFS Datastore on and place your MySQL VMs on. There is only one drawback when placing 2 or more VDs on a RAID. You will unable to add more phys. Disks to the existing RAID10 Group because thats only possible with only one existing VD.For sure you can name your VDs as you like  Regards,Joerg
Here's the service tag:       I'm wondering the best method of installation of ESXi.  I don't know if the onboard controller will support RAID1 with the PERC installed.  I'm trying to do a separate RAID1 ESXi installation and use the back-plane drives for the VMs. Can someone give me a suggestion of the best hardware setup to get the best performance?  I don't think I can do pass-through of the PERC to install the VM on the drives directly.  I'm novice with ESXi and want to run 3 VM with MySQL on CentOS 7, but want the OS drive separate from the back-plane drives to get the best performance. I was thinking of something like this:  RAID1 SATA on the motherboard with ESXi, install the guest VM OS on those, then create my MySQL partitions as vmdk on the RAID10 partitions. Is that possible with the PE610 we have now?  Does the integrated controller also perform RAID for any drives attached to the motherboard, or is it only for the break-out cable? 
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