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lk5246
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What is the best RAID 10 stripe size for Vmware ESXi

Hi I would like some help to make an informed decision as per which stripe size I should use on my RAID 10 array (made of 6 146GB ULTRA320 SCSI HDDs). also is raid 10 good performance on esxi.i will be running a heavy load on the server as well please let me know

Thanks

Lekshmen Kannan

The server is running ESXi4.

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MauroBonder
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VMware Employee

check if help - http://communities.vmware.com/message/18066#18066

raid 10 have a nice performance, but if you don´t allocate virtual machines in local disk, this not do big difference.

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