Seeking to understand the pros and cons of configuring a pool.
The pool will contain 16 SSDs, 8 will be 1TB and the other 8 at 2TB. All IornWolf. I was thinking of doing 4 vdevs of RAIDZ1.
Question and clarification needed:
The storage contain is for VMs and storage but for a development environment. Do I care about losing data? Yes, to a point but again, it is a dev environment for my techs to spin up VMs, learn ESXi and vSphere as well as other applications and services they want to tinker with.
If there is a more reasonable way to layout the pool (or pools) I'm open to listen, understand and be educated upon.
Thanks for your time
The pool will contain 16 SSDs, 8 will be 1TB and the other 8 at 2TB. All IornWolf. I was thinking of doing 4 vdevs of RAIDZ1.
Question and clarification needed:
- does RAIDZ1 for 4 vdevs mean that each vdev will accept 1 disk failure or does this mean the entire pool is only acceptable to one disk failure?
- If I was ever to upgrade 4 of the 1TB vdevs, can I safely export those disks (all at once or one at a time while replacing each disk) and the data will be retained on the other disks in the vdev?
- What would be the way to configure now for an upgrade in the future?
The storage contain is for VMs and storage but for a development environment. Do I care about losing data? Yes, to a point but again, it is a dev environment for my techs to spin up VMs, learn ESXi and vSphere as well as other applications and services they want to tinker with.
If there is a more reasonable way to layout the pool (or pools) I'm open to listen, understand and be educated upon.
Thanks for your time