I would only say pay attention to R5 fault tolerance and rebuild time. On a busy array, a rebuild for an R5 array can be painfully long, I once experienced an additional failure while not fault tolerant and lost it all as it was taking for ever to rebuild.
I have a couple ESXi machines running on DL380G5's with 4x146G SAS in R10 on P800's and they cruise along nicely... jlc From: Benjamin Zachary - Lists [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Tuesday, February 03, 2009 6:13 AM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: RE: Vmware Disk Ideas Hi Greg, I think running that high performance with that limited users probably won't make any real difference as far as the client would be able to see. Maybe if there is heavy SQL or something on there you could look at RAID10 for the i/o increase. However, in your description below I would look at RAID5/6. ESXi runs about 90% through ram so you don't really see a lot of disk i/o from that per se. ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
