I am putting together a Dell R720 SFF with an H710p. Only planning on running 2x VMS right now; server 2102 R2 for DC/file shares and a secondary server for backup DC. Will be installing ESXi on dual SD cards.
I originally had thought to use 2x 500GB SSD's in Raid 1 for 1 data store to host the guest VM's. Then install 4x2TB HDD's in Raid 10 as a second data store. The VM's would use the HDD array fro file storage, roaming user profile storage.
My question is if that is feasible? I asked previously on spice works but never received an answer to my last posts. It was suggested to only have one data store. But price becomes an issue.
I could put 4x500GB consumer ssd's in Raid 10 and 2tb would suffice for now. Another option would be 8x1TB SAS HDD's in Raid 10 to get the desired 4TB's.
Thank you for the help.