hi,
when i create a datastore can i add multiple disks in that datastore?can i expand later datastore adding new disk?vmfs is at datastore level and not at disk level.right?
tnx
what do you have from HW? which server and how many disks?
normally any server with HW raid controller have some kind of management which you can access from BIOS/UEFI and there you can configure RAID Groups / Virtual Drives and on top of that you install ESXi, create datastores and so on...
vmfs in on datastore level, right.
You should use a RAID system for your datastore, not single disks ...
If it is a local datastore (created on direct attached disks), you have form a logical volume (RAID) on the hardware level in order to have the provision of expanding the datastore at a later point in time. If it is an array with LUN being presented to the hosts, you can create a datastore on one LUN for now. When you want to expand it, you can either expand the existing LUN or add a new LUN as an extent to the existing one and then expand the datastore.
Cheers,
Supreet
hi,
i like to know the answer at this:
when i create a datastore can i add multiple disks in that datastore?
tnx
do you mean virtual disks? to create several VMs with disks on the same datastore?
If you mean this, yes, of course you can.
You can use Multiple disk + RAID to create one logical volume. This logical volume you can use to create Datastore.
You can not use multiple disk for creating one Datastore without RAID.
hi,
tnx.
the server where i install esxi must to has hardware controller so i create a virtual drive and i install on it the esxi.right?
with what command i create on esxi a raid?tnx
If you are talking about virtual machine hard disks, yes you can have multiple VM hard disks in the same datastore.
Cheers,
Supreet
what do you have from HW? which server and how many disks?
normally any server with HW raid controller have some kind of management which you can access from BIOS/UEFI and there you can configure RAID Groups / Virtual Drives and on top of that you install ESXi, create datastores and so on...