Does someone have any recommendations about this small san configuration we are planning to use
according to performance issues:
- dual controller low-end HP msa iSCSI san
- 2 1Gb switches
- 2 ESXi hosts with 4 NICS (2 NICS to SAN, 2 NICS to seperate network)
- vShere 4
- total about max 8 VM's, a few windows DC's and a few member servers.
- only HA, no vMotion
1. Is it better to use 6 NICS per ESXi host?
2. Since this is vShere4 with a few servers is it wise to make the configuration as simple as possible?:
- one RAID 5 + hotspare, one LUN, one VMFS volume
- each VM a C: vmdk and a 😧 vmdk, also domain controllers
3. Is it possible to use the dual controller msa with one RAID 5 + hotspare or is it better to
have 2 RAID 5 configurations? One per controller?
Any comments are greatly appreciated.