Hi all,
I have created a cluster for my new environment that I am setting up to replace the physical servers I am running on my network. I researched it a little, and I also discussed it with VMWare, but I am not sure about the Microsoft part of the equation.
My Environment: EMC SAN Array, Windows 2012 R2, and VMWare 6.x
What I have done so far:
Created the LUNs at the SAN level
Added a small drive for the Quorum on each one of the VMs using an RDM drive with a shared SCSI controller(different from the original 0:0 and physical for sharing).
My cluster is up and running
My Question:
If I am going to run a SQL server on one of these clusters, do I need to have every single disk (other than the OS) on the server being an RDM drive?
Does that mean that all of my databases will have to reside on the RDM disks? (and logs, and backups, etc.)...