HP 6300 EVA

[danielanthony]

Hi,

I am getting a HP 6300 EVA with the 8xFC option and two shelves initially, one with 25x600Gb 10k LFF drives and another with 12x2TB 7.2k SFF drives.

I have 30 VM's which need about 200 IOPS and 250Gb disk space each, I'm running ESXi 4.1 so limited to 2TB datastores. How would it be best to split up the fast LFF storage?

Option 1) Create 5 x RAID5 disk groups with 1 LUN on each
Option 2) Create 1 big 25 disk RAID6 disk group with LUN's as near to 2TB as I can get them?

Thanks

 

[danielanthony]

Cheers guys, I've been using Dell MD sans for the last few months and this HP virtual raid stuff looks interesting. Btw, the 2tb drives are for file server storage, this doesn't need as much performance as the build/compile analysis stuff does