On Thu, Oct 8, 2009 at 12:14 PM, <[email protected]> wrote: > The machine will have the VMWare windows-based management software (it will > _NOT_ be an ESX host!), and once built should not have that much disk I/O > (or so I'm naive enough to believe).
In a pinch, can you install the VMware management software on a workstation and get point-in-time functionality back without loosing operational capability? If so, that sounds okay. If you *need* that box working to manage your VMs effectively, I'd say it was as important as the ESX hosts themselves. > If one drive fails, can the mirror be brokenor must one replace the failed > disk and then break the mirror, or is one pretty much stuck with the > software RAID 1 once it's created? As I recall, once you've made a mirror set, it remains a mirror set for life. You can run it perpetually as a degraded mirror with one missing member, though. Oh, and IIRC, creating a mirror set converts the partition system to Microsoft's funky "Advanced Disk" format, which probabbly breaks most third-party partition management tools. It's been years since I've touched a Microsoft RAID, so I reserve the right to be wrong. :) -- Ben ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
