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Hello,
I hope members at the community and their loved ones are safe and healthy.
I am a self-funded student with a homelab having a single compute device (Dell Precision workstation) with 4 physical storage devices and volumes (each physical device is a volume running VMFS 6:
- 2TB, 2.5' SSD (non-enterprise grade)
- 1TB, 2.5' SSD (non-enterprise grade)
- 1TB, M.2 SSD (non-enterprise grade)
- 1.5TB, iSCSI attached NAS storage (Syonlogy NAS running 7200 disks in RAID-1)
I have mixed workloads with some requiring high IOPS (Elastic stack) and other requiring medium to low IOPS. I usually create a VM with two parts:
- OS on a separate physical disk
- Data store mounted from a different physical disk to ensure IOPS are guaranteed.
Here are my questions:
- Can I combine all of my volumes (mixed storage types)?
- Is there any advantage in doing so (besides learning
). - I manually allocate disks (such as creating VMs on the NAS storage to offset wearing for the SSDs) - Will combining storage wear out my non-enterprise SSDs quicker?
- Any downsides from doing this?
I have a single compute device and hence no DRS for compute.
Thank you very much and stay safe and healthy ![]()
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Because you don't have storage device so there is no tiering feature available and mixing the disks doesn't have any additional benefits.
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