Exchange/SQL - Local or NFS/NAS storage?
I'll put up our first vSphere environment.
Material:
HP DL380 G6 (2xQuad processors, 16 GB memory)
Aberdeen (VMware certified NAS) with the NFS data store
The host systems and storage are connected with multiple 1 GB NICs. A second host is added for redundancy and increased VM shortly.
I have a couple of operation low production VM on that very well because we test the system. We now plan to create our exchange and SQL vm. My question is if it's better to put these VM on local storage or on the nfs datastore? We could not afford the full FC SAN, but reading a lot of white papers indicating the performance of nas NFS isn't so bad. I'm looking for some advice from real world concerning data exchange/SQL on this type of installation. I understand that I would lose the advanced features of the nfs if I went local storage but it plans for the performance.
Now to put this in perspective, e-mail users total attaching to the exhange server just 75... but the availability is obviously important for them.
Advice?
Thank you
If you go just for a basic setup, a large store of data is very good. It might help separate out and use two exports, or more, if you want to use etherchannel, but who is probably added complexity that you don't really need at this point.
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