esx is the hardware "OS" So I cant see how you would achieve a software RAID. unless you want to sit ESX on the platform with each disk independent. then install your OS and build are raid across the vdisks, sounds like a disaster waiting to happen, but potentially not if youre backing up the vmdks. Kind of weird if im understanding what youre wanting to achieve. My operations platform is a raid10 across SSD, performance over raid5 was notable. the boss still builds alot of raid5, to me seems like saving the cost of a disk is offset in the long term replacing failed disks. Disks are relatively cheap, datacenter smart hands are not. a couple more disks, a little more redundancy, less writes per disk. I like to have a couple independent disks in esx depending on the host. hot spares or static data storage
On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 8:27 AM Mark - Myakka Technologies <[email protected]> wrote: > Helping my son setup a ESXI server. Going into a datacenter > a few states away. I have only done some basic ESXI setup when > fooling around with mikrotik. My other VM servers sit on top of > ubuntu. I have always used ubuntu SW raid10 when setting up my > servers. > > Looks like ESXI can be HW raid only. Can't find anyway of doing > SW raid. Anything I'm missing? > > He is going to put SSD's in the server. I'm thinking just going with > RAID 1 for some redundancy. Spanning across SSD's does not seem to be > worth it for performance. Thought's on that? > > > > -- > > Thanks, > Mark mailto:[email protected] > > Myakka Technologies, Inc. > www.Myakka.com > > > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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