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VM with disks in multiple datastore clusters?

Duncan Epping · Aug 9, 2011 ·

This week I received a question about Storage DRS. The question was if it was possible to have a VM with multiple disks in different datastore clusters? It’s not uncommon to have set ups like these so I figured it would be smart to document it. The answer is yes that is supported. You can create a virtual machine with a system disk on a raid-5 backed datastore cluster and a data disk on a raid-10 backed datastore cluster. If Storage DRS sees the need to migrate either of the disks to a different datastore it will make the recommendation to do so.

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Server 5, 5.0, Storage, storage drs, vSphere, vstorage

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Duncan Epping is a Chief Technologist and Distinguished Engineering Architect at Broadcom. Besides writing on Yellow-Bricks, Duncan is the co-author of the vSAN Deep Dive and the vSphere Clustering Deep Dive book series. Duncan is also the host of the Unexplored Territory Podcast.

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