Solved RAID - Two Arrays for Server? Array 1 for Windows Host and Array 2 for VMs and Data?

[scottalanmiller]

@Pete-S said in RAID - Two Arrays for Server? Array 1 for Windows Host and Array 2 for VMs and Data?:

This is what we do.

Option 3.
Hypervisor on satadom or small SSD drive.
Performance storage array with SSDs. Raid 1 or 10.
Capacity storage array with 3.5" HDDs. Raid 1 or 10.

• Each VMs gets the kind of storage it needs.
• RAID1 is default for the arrays.
• RAID10 is only used when the capacity is needed (always as few drives as possible).

Right now I'm prepping a RAID 1 array 2x16TB that will go into one of our hosts.

md4 : active raid1 sdm[1] sdl[0]
      15625748288 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
      [>....................]  resync =  0.6% (99811008/15625748288) finish=1322.2min speed=195699K/sec

We'll see how long it takes. Supposedly around 23 hours.

Same here.

[Dashrender]

@scottalanmiller said in RAID - Two Arrays for Server? Array 1 for Windows Host and Array 2 for VMs and Data?:

@Pete-S said in RAID - Two Arrays for Server? Array 1 for Windows Host and Array 2 for VMs and Data?:

This is what we do.

Option 3.
Hypervisor on satadom or small SSD drive.
Performance storage array with SSDs. Raid 1 or 10.
Capacity storage array with 3.5" HDDs. Raid 1 or 10.

• Each VMs gets the kind of storage it needs.
• RAID1 is default for the arrays.
• RAID10 is only used when the capacity is needed (always as few drives as possible).

Right now I'm prepping a RAID 1 array 2x16TB that will go into one of our hosts.

md4 : active raid1 sdm[1] sdl[0]
      15625748288 blocks super 1.2 [2/2] [UU]
      [>....................]  resync =  0.6% (99811008/15625748288) finish=1322.2min speed=195699K/sec

We'll see how long it takes. Supposedly around 23 hours.

Same here.

So you've moved to SSD with RAID 1 or RAID 10, no more RAID 5?