I realise this question has been asken many times and ive read through alot of them, but i am still unsure how to set this up.
I have 8 x 600gb drives setup in a RAID 10. This leaves me with 2.4TB of space. I have a PERC 6i card in my dell server, which has ESXi 5.1 installed.
I want to make 1x 100gb logical partition on the RAID for the OS
I want to make the rest of the space (2.3tb) into one large drive for the filestore on that OS.
Do i need to create a 2tb (-512b) logical drive and a 300gb logical drive on the card, then join them in vmware then add them as a second drive to the vm?
Or can i create 1x 2.3tb logical drive and just add that?
Also if i need to create a 2tb and a 300gb logical drive and join them, will this impact performance?
Thanks!