We are planning VSA 5.1 deploying on two ML350p Gen8 servers with two HDD cages: first HDD cage 6 x 600 GB 15K RAID 10 for VSA cluster shared storage, second cage 6 x 2 TB SAS 7.2K RAID10 for VM’s and backup.
Here I have several questions for VSA 5.1 deployment:
- Can we be using first HDD cage for VSA cluster shared storage, second HDD cage for standalone VM’s and backup?
- Is it safety to install VMware ESXi 5.1 on USB flash in VSA 5.1 deployment?
- What happens with ESXI host in VSA cluster if USB flash crashes? After changing crashed USB is it only needed to reinstall ESXI?