Hi
Im in the process for implement an MD3200i and im looking for someone who have experience with this kind of tasks.
As far i understand, (and reeading this: http://pubs.vmware.com/vsphere-50/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.vmware.vsphere.storage.doc_50%2FGUID-3A05795A-283F-4959-AD81-FAC61FD8D456.html ). The guest operating system in a vmware enviroment request for the data to the SAN via the HBA adapter in the ESX host.
My question, and if i am right, the chunk of data it will be the size of the formating operating system, im correct?
This is, if the guest OS ask for 4Kbytes of information, the: OS -> adapter -> SAN controller - > lun -> physical disk.
so which is the best segment size in disk group for a lun? This lun will store like 10 web servers, with thousands of files each, from 1k to 500Mbytes in size (very random I/O).
Im actually configured a RAID 1+0 ( 8 15k 600GB drives ) but i dont know which segment size i must use for this.
Any suggestions?
Thank you in advance and excuse my english. ;-)