Hi all,I am looking for some advice on a SQL 2000 configuration I have inherited.The configuration looks like this.EMC SAN with two disk poolsDISK Pool #1 - 7x300GB SAS 10K drives - RAID 5 (1xHot Spare)DISK Pool #2 - 11x1TB SATA 7200K drives - RAID 5 (1xHot Spare)On DISK Pool #1 I have 1 Virtual Disk that is exposed to 3 hosts running VMware ESX 4.1On DISK Pool #2 I have multiple virtual disks - all exposed to the 3 hosts.Each virtual disk contains one datastore that is the same size of the virtual disk.The datastore on DISK Pool #1 is dedicated to our SQL Server.The datastores on DISK Pool #2 are mostly used of other VM's (file server, domain controllers, Exchange, Front End application servers)The SQL Server has 4 partitions all separate VMDK's stored on that same datastore.OSDATALOGSBACKUPA SQL Backup runs against our databases twice daily and drops them in the backup partition. (each backup totals 90GB)Here is the million dollar question... am I best to leave the logs/data/backup all on the faster storage or should I separate out the BACKUPS data to a NAS we have and put the Logs on the lower tier storage on DISK pool 2? I know ideally I want more spindles and preferably RAID 10, but I don't really have the space/time/budget to juggle servers.Any feedback is appreciated!BF
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