I'll wait for final approval from our company's Network Architect. Some have hinted (and I'm prepared to go this way) that I might instead clone the drive to the second drive in the system. The system drive fails, then the swap works... - richard
Ben Scott <[email protected]> wrote on 10/08/2009 11:22:00 AM: > 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/> ~ ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
