Hi guys - I am looking at upgrading the storage on my home ESXi lab. I'm currently running around 30 VM's on a single 7200rpm SATA 3 drive and the performance is starting to become an issue (particularly during Veeam backups of the VM's to a USB drive)
The board has an onboard SATA 2 RAID controller which connects up to a SAS backplane.
I was thinking of the following two options.
Buy a refurbished IBM M1015 and flash with LSI firmware and setup a RAID 1 with an additional 7200RPM SATA 3 drive and use that as a datastore. Since I'm backing up nightly to Veeam, redundancy isn't a major concern.
Purchase two 480GB Samsung PM863 drives and hook them up to the existing onboard RAID controller. (SATA 2) - I'm looking at the Enterprise option here due to having quite a few write intensive VM's (SQL, Exchange 2013)
Obviously the latter option is a fair more expensive - but would this offer much better performance vs spindles?
Many thanks
The board has an onboard SATA 2 RAID controller which connects up to a SAS backplane.
I was thinking of the following two options.
Buy a refurbished IBM M1015 and flash with LSI firmware and setup a RAID 1 with an additional 7200RPM SATA 3 drive and use that as a datastore. Since I'm backing up nightly to Veeam, redundancy isn't a major concern.
Purchase two 480GB Samsung PM863 drives and hook them up to the existing onboard RAID controller. (SATA 2) - I'm looking at the Enterprise option here due to having quite a few write intensive VM's (SQL, Exchange 2013)
Obviously the latter option is a fair more expensive - but would this offer much better performance vs spindles?
Many thanks
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