PLEASE I NEED BASIC & PRACTICE SOLUTION TO CONFIGURE EVA??

[Galal]

I HAVE THIS CASE:
TWO DATABSE SERVERS
TWO APPLICATION SERVERS
TWO MAIL SERVERS
TWO ACTIVE DIRECTORY SERVERS
TWO TEST & DEVELOPMENT SERVER
ONE ANTI VIRUSE SERVER

MS WINDOWS2003 FOR ALL

EVA6000 WITH 6.4 TB RAW CAPACITY
44*146GB

WHAT IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO CONFIGURE THIS CASE(EVA)???
HOW MANY VDISK FOR EACH SERVER???
WHICH VRAID LEVEL IS USED??
WHAT DRIVE LETTER I CAN USE??

[pablo_garcia]

WHAT IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO CONFIGURE THIS CASE(EVA)???
About what?
HOW MANY VDISK FOR EACH SERVER???
You create VDisks if you need it for your server/aplications, and you have free space.
WHICH VRAID LEVEL IS USED??
If you have a critical service, you would set Vraid 1, and Vraid 5 for the rest (for example)
WHAT DRIVE LETTER I CAN USE??
You can choose the drive letter.

You can see the space (free/total) that you have now and calculate the space about EVA. For example:
- A 146 GB disk is not 146*1024 MB. It is 146*1000 MB.
- If you have a Disk Group (146 GB Disks) and you create one 80 GB Vdisk Vraid5, you are using about 100 GB.

[Víctor Cespón]

May I suggest the following document?
Enterprise Virtual Array configuration best practices
http://h71028.www7.hp.com/ERC/downloads/4AA1-4202ENW.pdf

Setting disk failure protection on "Single" and leaving at least a 5% of the space free, will let you 5.4 TB for your vdisks. The maximum size of a vdisk is 2 TB. In RAID 5 the vdisk will use x*1.25, and in RAID 1 will use x*2.

The spare requeriments will be given by the applications. That's very variable.

[Rob Leadbeater]

> WHAT IS THE BEST SOLUTION TO CONFIGURE THIS CASE

Find someone who understands the various applications that you're going to be using, and ask them to size things appropriately.

Then find someone who understands an EVA and get them to configure it.

Seriously, you need to be asking yourself some very basic questions before even thinking about how to configure the EVA...

Cheers,

Rob

P.S. STOP SHOUTING !