Is it possible to have the NTFS partition with partition VMFS?

Hello

I am new to virtualization. I have read many planning our first server vmware coming in a few days. There are some issues that I haven't yet found an answer.

The new server will be DELL Poweredge 2950 III with double E5420 CPU, 8 GB of RAM, RAID PERC/6i material and some discs. I haven't decided on drives yet.

1. There will be 3 Windows 2008 servers and 2 or 3 linux servers running on them. The domain controller servers, file and print server, ISA 2006 Firewall, loading of SQL 2008 with very light, linux with Server mail server web linux.

We have just enough budget left to buy 2 pieces of 400 10,00 rpm for RAID-1 GB SAS drives or 3 pieces of 1 TB 7,200 rpm SATA to RAID-5 disks.

I need space as much as speed. We can add more drives in the future, but for now, I have to live with the initial configuration. I like the speed of the SAS, but capacity SATA drives seems very attractive. I have the choice to start with capacity of 300 GB SAS against 2 TB of SATA usable space. Can you comment on this please. Which do you prefer?

2. I'm not comfortable with the idea of keeping everything (OS, files,...) in one big file. Is it possible to be part of the disk space in DOS or NTFS partition on the same disk with the VMFS partition?

I can use this partition as common file storage. I also want to make backups to this separate partition so I can reach if vmware fails. We have no budget to buy a file based backup software yet. I'll use backup software image freewere to save images to a PC also.

Otherwise, I cannot live with SAS drives with limited disk space and can buy SATA drives in the future. Is - it possible to use the second SATA outside vmfs LUNs? Client operating systems can reach non-vmfs partitions on the same server? How can I achieve this?

This question may seem a bit strange, but any help will be appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Welcome to the VMware community forums.

1. There will be 3 Windows 2008 servers and 2 or 3 linux servers running on them. The domain controller servers, file and print server, ISA 2006 Firewall, loading of SQL 2008 with very light, linux with Server mail server web linux.

We have just enough budget left to buy 2 pieces of 400 10,00 rpm for RAID-1 GB SAS drives or 3 pieces of 1 TB 7,200 rpm SATA to RAID-5 disks.

I need space as much as speed. We can add more drives in the future, but for now, I have to live with the initial configuration. I like the speed of the SAS, but capacity SATA drives seems very attractive. I have a choice from 300 GB SAS > ability against 2 TB of SATA usable space. Can you comment on this please. Which do you prefer?

I would assum that these are existing systems?  If so, what kind of count of drive you have in the existing servers and what kind of load IO have currently?  I would be worried to go with a 2 or 3 system disk and watch perhaps 4 * 146 GB 15 K SAS drives to start.  Also ensure that the adapter RAID a write cache of battery backup it will significantly improve performance with ESXi.

2. I'm not comfortable with the idea of keeping everything (OS, files,...) in one big file. Is it possible to be part of the disk space in DOS or NTFS partition on the same disk with the VMFS partition?

VMFS is a disk rather than a single file format.   It is designed to be reliable, and I would have more problems with the possibility of corrpution on an NTFS partition that I would with a VMFS partition.

I can use this partition as common file storage. I also want to make backups to this separate partition so I can reach if vmware fails. We have no budget to buy a file based backup software yet. I'll use backup software image freewere to save images to a PC also. Otherwise, I cannot live with SAS drives with limited disk space and can buy SATA drives in the future. Is - it possible to use the second SATA outside vmfs LUNs? Client operating systems can reach non-vmfs partitions on the same server? How can I achieve this?

You can create a table and then present it to a virtual machine as a SCSI device generic, but to have several virtual machines, access at the same time, you need to use in the cluster aware OSes.  There are good backup script (free) that are available for ESXi and I suggest to store these backups on storage outside the ESXi host for security.

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