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[Discuss] New to VMWare DataStores



I just had a chance to get more involved with the hardware - it turns
out we actually have a preconfigured RAID 6 setup with each drive
showing 2 TB available.

I am going to break the RAID and see capacity we can recover.  Glad it
is not in production, yet :-)

On Wed, Jan 14, 2015 at 2:25 PM, Edward Ned Harvey (blu)
<blu at nedharvey.com> wrote:
>> From: Scott Ehrlich [mailto:scott at ehrlichtronics.com]
>>
>> The server does have a PERC, but it does not acknowledge any disks,
>> indicating the four disks are truly independent.
>>
>> Having the latest ESXi version, what is the next step to having the
>> system actually see each 4 TB drive at or near the raw capacity (i.e.
>> 3.6 TB)?
>
> You don't want non-redundant storage, do you?  A single disk goes bad, your whole system goes down and the only way you'll get it back up again is to remove the faulted disk to allow the other systems to come up...  Is that really what you want?



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