Comments on: HDDs for VMWare ESXi 3.5 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hdds-for-vmware-esxi-35/ Tue, 21 May 2013 18:28:49 +0000 hourly 1 By: graybeard52 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hdds-for-vmware-esxi-35/#comment-64361 graybeard52 Wed, 10 Jun 2009 17:00:27 +0000 #comment-64361 Aside from that, it looks like you have planty of power. Whether that is enough disk or not is entirly dependent on what you use it for. The same is true of the processor power. My guide for minimum VM machines is at least one core per VM, at least 2GB memory per VM, and least a little for the ESX engine. But’s that is very conditional. File servers use less memory and little pprocessor, but lots of disk. Most application servers are the reverse.

SAS vs SATA. SAS drives are faster, more reliable (so I’m told), and more expensive. SAS, if you can afford it, is about twice as fast as SATA.

BTW, since you are starting new, look into disk virtualization by companies like EchoStor. This can dramatically reduce the need for disk.

]]> By: jimmyit http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hdds-for-vmware-esxi-35/#comment-64210 jimmyit Thu, 04 Jun 2009 14:03:20 +0000 #comment-64210 VMware Compatibility Guides

VirtualIQ Pro

]]> By: spatel101 http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hdds-for-vmware-esxi-35/#comment-64193 spatel101 Wed, 03 Jun 2009 22:31:24 +0000 #comment-64193 You could also use VirtualIQ Pro FREE which is a solution which will help you with density planning as well as being able to test the configs of the different application workloads as well as providing a lot more, check them out at http://www.toutvirtual.com

]]> By: jessew http://itknowledgeexchange.techtarget.com/itanswers/hdds-for-vmware-esxi-35/#comment-64166 jessew Tue, 02 Jun 2009 22:38:18 +0000 #comment-64166 You can always check component compatibity with the VMware Compatibility Guides at
http://www.vmware.com/resources/guides.html

Jess

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