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    <title>topic DRS and Datastore cluster in VMware vSphere™ Discussions</title>
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    <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope members at the community and their loved ones are safe and healthy.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;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:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;2TB, 2.5' SSD (non-enterprise grade)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;1TB, 2.5' SSD (non-enterprise grade)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;1TB, M.2 SSD (non-enterprise grade)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;1.5TB, iSCSI attached NAS storage (Syonlogy NAS running 7200 disks in RAID-1)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;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:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;OS on a separate physical disk&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Data store mounted from a different physical disk to ensure IOPS are guaranteed.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here are my questions:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Can I combine all of my volumes (mixed storage types)?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Is there any advantage in doing so (besides learning &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@DCF4E2F7991292CEECF250394DB2C2BC/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt; ).&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;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?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Any downsides from doing this?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a single compute device and hence no DRS for compute.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you very much and stay safe and healthy &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@DCF4E2F7991292CEECF250394DB2C2BC/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
    <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:04:19 GMT</pubDate>
    <dc:creator>parthmaniar</dc:creator>
    <dc:date>2021-03-20T12:04:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>DRS and Datastore cluster</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/DRS-and-Datastore-cluster/m-p/2837004#M38626</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Hello,&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;I hope members at the community and their loved ones are safe and healthy.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;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:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;2TB, 2.5' SSD (non-enterprise grade)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;1TB, 2.5' SSD (non-enterprise grade)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;1TB, M.2 SSD (non-enterprise grade)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;1.5TB, iSCSI attached NAS storage (Syonlogy NAS running 7200 disks in RAID-1)&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;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:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;UL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;OS on a separate physical disk&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Data store mounted from a different physical disk to ensure IOPS are guaranteed.&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/UL&gt;&lt;P&gt;Here are my questions:&lt;/P&gt;&lt;OL&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Can I combine all of my volumes (mixed storage types)?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Is there any advantage in doing so (besides learning &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@DCF4E2F7991292CEECF250394DB2C2BC/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt; ).&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;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?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;LI&gt;Any downsides from doing this?&lt;/LI&gt;&lt;/OL&gt;&lt;P&gt;I have a single compute device and hence no DRS for compute.&lt;/P&gt;&lt;P&gt;Thank you very much and stay safe and healthy &lt;img class="lia-deferred-image lia-image-emoji" src="https://communities.vmware.com/html/@DCF4E2F7991292CEECF250394DB2C2BC/emoticons/1f642.png" alt=":slightly_smiling_face:" title=":slightly_smiling_face:" /&gt;&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Sat, 20 Mar 2021 12:04:19 GMT</pubDate>
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      <dc:creator>parthmaniar</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-20T12:04:19Z</dc:date>
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      <title>Re: DRS and Datastore cluster</title>
      <link>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/DRS-and-Datastore-cluster/m-p/2837244#M38644</link>
      <description>&lt;P&gt;Because you don't have storage device so there is no tiering feature available and mixing the disks doesn't have any additional benefits.&lt;/P&gt;</description>
      <pubDate>Mon, 22 Mar 2021 09:41:44 GMT</pubDate>
      <guid>https://communities.vmware.com/t5/VMware-vSphere-Discussions/DRS-and-Datastore-cluster/m-p/2837244#M38644</guid>
      <dc:creator>DavoudTeimouri</dc:creator>
      <dc:date>2021-03-22T09:41:44Z</dc:date>
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