large partition or make mutiple small virtual disk virtual disk

I have a server that is running vmware server and using windows server 2008 as a host operating system. I need to set up two machines vitrual which will act as a file server and database server.

I have a RAID 5 with the host using 3 were leaving. one for the host, one for file server and the other for the database server. I would like to know what is the best for proformace.  Do I have to create a virtual disk of 1 TB and let the guest operating system put in place three partition for the file server or should I create 3 small virtal drive and let the guest operating system to use all the space on the small virtual disk 3. the reason why I need 3 partiton is due to a mapping application that is 500 GB and we can only save. Therefore a partition for it because our backup software backs up only the partitions.

the database server will be a p2v and I think there just a single partition.

With a single RAID set on the host computer, you can choose either way, avoid any difference in performance. However, I'd probably go with 3 virtual drives. This way you can - if it takes more performance disc - add for example an addition RAID 1 go up and turn the virtual disk of db the extra RAID to set.

André

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