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| Role | Disk Drives | Configuration | Settings | Partition(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Boot Volume | 2 Enterprise Class HDD's any RPM/Cache | RAID 1 (Mirror) | n/a | Recommend single partition with NTFS or ReFS to hold Windows Operating System |
| Video Volume | 2 Enterprise Class HDD's any RPM/Cache | RAID 1 or RAID 5 | If RAID 5, default stripe block size | Recommend single partition |
Database Volume | 2 Enterprise Class HDD's, 7200 RPM/256MB Cache | RAID 1 or RAID 10 | if RAID 10, consider minimal stripe block sizes to improve IOPS | Recommend single partition |
RAID Settings:
It is beyond the scope of this document to try and illustrate every possible hardware/software RAID configuration. Instead the settings from the 3VR VMS appliance will be used merely to provide an example. The current 3VR appliances use the Intel Rapid Storage Technology to manage RAID configurations.
Volume Settings:
Once the RAID volumes have been created and a file system created on a RAID volume, there is one last setting which can dramatically improve performance on the volume: the file system write buffer flushing.