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We're primarily using hosts with local storage but I'd like to farm off our WSUS database drive to an iSCSI NAS (synology 1010) would I be better off using the windows server's iSCSI target connect directly to the NAS or should I be looking at having the storage allocated to a VMWare datastore then having VWWare present a drive to the Windows Server. I intend to allocate some of the storage to VMWare datastores, I just don't know if it's better to present the drive directly to windows when possible.
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This falls somewhat between the consumer and the enterprise as it's an SMB type question. Environment: 4 server SBS 2008 network running on 3 hosts with ESXi. ~20 workstations. I'm looking at picking up a QNAP 859 or 879 (which allows for a 10GBe card) as an upgrade for a synology which I use for a backup target fileshares/and to keep live backup/test copies of VMs (via iSCSI.) with the new box I'm looking at running a couple low utilization VMs via ESX. I'd probably config the disks for RAID 6. Is it worth putting 10GBe in seeing as it would cost a lot too add the cards to the servers and pick up a switch OR would the bandwidth of 6-8 SATA3 drives in RAID-6 not saturate it anyway? Are there other brands i should be considering?
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I'm trying to work out a SAN storage agreement with another organization, and i'm not quite sure what the typical usable amount of a SAN is. The SAN is a Nimble 260 so there's 36 TB raw, which they show as 25-50 TB usable the > 25 TB part is based on compression so I'll say 25 TB usable storage, what I don't know is how much typically gets used up by snapshots and whatever else is needed. What's a reasonable amount of that 25 TB can be used by VM's?
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