Raid5 means if you lose 2 disks you just lost all your data. Raid10 means if you lost 2 disks you're still OK. Just get a replacement in there already!
Josh Luthman 24/7 Help Desk: 937-552-2340 Direct: 937-552-2343 1100 Wayne St Suite 1337 Troy, OH 45373 On Wed, Dec 30, 2020 at 10:17 AM Steve Jones <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 >> > -- > AF mailing list > [email protected] > http://af.afmug.com/mailman/listinfo/af_af.afmug.com >
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