ESX architecture help

[karnash]

Hi,

i have 3 HP Proliant DL580 G5 servers ESXi server and we have to setup a vmware infrastructure. We have EMC Clariion CX4-120 which has about 20T of SATA disks. I have 3T of fibre disks. I have attached all the servers to the SAN via the san switches.

I need some help with some layout/architecture. The virtual machines will be windows 2008 R2 (don't know if that is supported yet)

2 x windows - file share server - size about 4T each

4 Redhat servers - Oracle database - size about 2T

1 x windows - oracle database - size 4T

Can someone please give me how should the LUNS be created and what size is the best recommended. Any help on the layout of luns/architecture of the infrastructure would be helpful.

Thanks

[Josh26]

There would be two issues to raise:

*A 2TB LUN limit means you will not be allocating any of those servers with a single disk.

*I would question whether SATA disks are appropriate for that environment. Running Oracle on VMWare is definitely at the "Enterprise" end of the scale, but SATA disks are not.

[AndreTheGiant]

Have a look at:

Andre

[depping]

Only way anyone could make a good recommendation is when you would state things like IOps / Mbps etc. There's not enough info to start from.

It could be that your Oracle database has a low utilization and the file server a high utilization, which might mean sata for oracle and fc for the fileserver. it could also be the other way around. see what I am getting at?

Duncan

VMware Communities User Moderator | VCP | VCDX

-

---

Now available: vSphere 4.0 Quick Start Guide: Shortcuts down the path of Virtualization

Blogging: | Twitter: