Hi Guys,
Our new server will be arriving soon and I would like to ask your help on what is the best storage configuration for SQL Server 2008 R2.
The new server will have local storage of 10 SSDs 400gb each and will be an ESXi server.
The server will contain the SQL Server VM and 12 other application VMs that are not IO intensive.
My questions are:
1.Is it okay to just create a 1 big RAID 10 as a data store for all the VMs including the data file and log files of the SQL, or do we need to store the log to a separate disk?
2. What is the best RAID configuration in terms of performance and space efficiency?