SAN, SQL and Exchange, Dell MD3200 strategy

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• SQL and Exchange on the same material - need help with storage!

  Hi all!

  I am definitely a newbie in the world of virtualization.  A colleague and I have spent hours scouring the Internet and reading white papers for answers and have been unable to find exactly what it takes.  So far, there has not been a lack of trying.  We are a very small company with 75 employees.  We have an Exchange Server and implement our first SQL Server and we want to virtualize both on hardware nine using the ESX 4.0 Essentials.  I don't know, probably not the best two apps to virtualize on a single piece of hardware, but we have about 12 people, using SQL server... at least for the foreseeable

  the future.  I'll try to make this simple in my questioning:

  (1.) what is the difference between a logical unit number, a PIN, a VMFS, a VM data store and how they relate to each other?  I know what means LUNS and VMFS and I know what a brooch is a hard drive, so no links to wikis on the definition of a LUN ;-).  Been there, done that.   These terms seem to be used very freely in all directions and it's confusing about how they relate to storage.

  (2.) we have 6 146 GB SAS drives for storage on my HP ML350G6, the config that I want to work with is the following:

  2 hard drives - RAID 1 - held Exchange OS, T-logs Exchange and SQL OS (possibly install VCenter Server on that as well in another virtual machine)
  4 hard drives - RAID 10 - will hold the Exchange and SQL DB database.

  Y at - it faults with this configuration?

  (3.) if #2 above is OK, how you (and you should in our small store scenario) cover several RAID (spindle?) arrays with a virtual machine.  In other words, how to you create a virtual Exchange computer and upgrade the operating system on a RAID, newspapers on the same value but different partition RAID and the Pb on a completely different RAID set?

  (4.) if #2 not OK, I should just create 2 simple VM Exchange, a for SQL and worry not separate newspapers/operating systems of databases on RAID berries?

  I thank you very much in advance!  These forums are wonderful!

  Confused in Cincinnati,

  -Bryan

  Thanks for your reply Wes!   I have a few questions for follow-up

  make sure that I understand.

  Therefore a unit logic simply number a "partition" carved on a storage space (if that)

  storage is a single hard drive or a RAID array)?   And of course each hard

  drive is a PIN, but when you take 3 discs and their RAID together.

  they, in fact, become a PIN, especially when it comes

  on reduncanc and no performance?

  VMware "" still does not see the storage, particularly the way in which you install. ESX will simply see a drive, format it with VMFS, so you can create files of your virtual hard disk on top of that (.vmdks) and your virtual configuration (.vmx)

  I'm not sure I understand the concern with VCenter Server?   It can not

  be on the same box as ESX running a VM couple?   My opinion is that

  VCenter Server would be just an another VM on this box?   Maybe I need to

  Read more on the VCenter Server!

  vCenter may work in esx, but it is preferable to have an another box, also don't forget that vcenter has its own SQL database and needs 3 + GB of ram. In your configuration, you can do better leaving vcenter out of the picture completely.

  Thanks again!

  -Bryan

  More like this:

  RAID 1 array: LUN1-> Datastore1-> ExchangeOS.vmdk, ExchangeLogs.vmdk, SQLOS.vmdk RAID 10 Array: LUN2-> Datastore2-> ExchangeDB.vmdk, SQLDB.vmdk

• Reference Dell R710, Dell and VMware VAAI MD3200

  Hi guys, we have 3 x Dell R710 hosts running VMware ESXi hypervisor v5.1. Our SAN is via Dell MD3200 Direct attached storage. We have activated the option of High Performance. My question is about VMware VAAI. In particular, the recommendation of VMware: http://kb.vmware.com/selfservice/microsites/search.do?language=en_US&cmd=displayKC&externalId=1033665 it says: "For more information on support VAAI in a particular storage group or required firmware levels, contact the storage array provider." So I'm wondering: is VAAI supported (or not) with the MD3200... and otherwise: should I be deactivation of VAAI settings as recommended by VMware? What are the potential implications for the performance of deactivation of VAAI... or support DO NOT turn it off? Thank you, Steve

  Indeed, you are using a fairly old firmware. The most recent is 07.84.53.60.

  To be able to upgrade to this version, you will need a version quite familiar of the MDSM. I would say to download 4.1.2.29 or later, which is 5.0.0.70. All servers Windows and Linux (not VMware or XenServer) server that manage and/or are connected via iSCSI SAN should have their MDSM, updated software before upgrade you the firmware on the raid on the SAN controller.

  RAID controller firmware: www.dell.com/.../powervault-md3200

  Latest resources DVD (5.0.0.70): www.dell.com/.../powervault-md3200

• New to VMware and Exchange 2010

  Hello

  I'm new to VMware and have some questions about the installer.  We just bought a HP DL380 G7 server and Exchange 2010.  I want to virtualize this server with a BES.  I'm trying to understand the best way to proceed.  We also have a Dell EqualLogic iSCSI SAN (PS4000).  Wouldn't it be better for me to boot from SAN and have ESxi installed on the SAN?  Or would it be preferable for ESxi installed on the server and have my VM hosted/installed on the SAN?  Thanks for the help.

  Hello owblueiii,

  I almose same infrastructure such as this, when I started the virtualization process was confused in this place, finally, we kept the boot on local, VMs oniSCSI SAN.

  advantages: 1. because if you have any questions you can the Como.

  2 and also a little difficult to troubleshoot if you have the on iscsi san boot partition.

  3. you can register your vms on san iscsi timing if you want the new ESX installation.

  Hope it's useful to your question.

• SQL Developer Exchange (partly) broken

  Sorry for the brutal grip, but I tried to address this for quite a long time: "Public reports" part of SQL Developer Exchange (https://apex.oracle.com/pls/apex/f?p=43135:24:NO:RP:) seems to be at a standstill for 2011 (sic!). There is nothing to do with a younger timestamp, nor can I publish reports autodéfinies.

  Another strange thing is that there is no contact information on the site SQLDev Xchange. That's why I'm posting here instead of posting an admin directly.

  I've marked it as a question so here goes: this part of the site will never be fixed?

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  See you soon,.

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• MS SQL or Exchange Storage Tuning Question

  Does anyone know how better to tune SQL or Exchange storage?

  We create 2 TB LUN using the SAS 8 x 300 GB on an IBM DS3400 FC SAN disks.

  (1) for the creation of the IBM Storage Manager dashboard, should what segment size we use? the indicated only are 128 KB or 256 KB. (512 can be done using the CLI)

  (2) what VMFS block size should be used? Then this SQL affect disk performance?

  (3) is there any special NTFS formatting required in the operating system (Windows Server 2003) to get better disk performance?

  Advice or guidance would be appreciated.

  Concerning

  Nicholas

  Reading the messages of various virtualization experts, the size of the block of VMFS has little impact on performance. If you have more than 256 GB virtual disks, then a larger block size would be better.

  Also, be sure to create the VMFS with Virtual Center partition as this will automatically align the VMFS.

  You need to align your XXXX in Windows Server 2003 for best performance. VMware has a guide that can be referenced here:

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• Problem with WSUS after upgrade of SQL and SCCM

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  This community is for users.

  Post your question in the TechNet Server Forums, as your question kindly is beyond the scope of these Forums.

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  SQL Server TechNet forums.

  https://social.technet.Microsoft.com/forums/SQLServer/en-us/home?category=SQLServer

  See you soon.

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