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20 Storage Solutions Guide
• For information on appropriately sizing the LUNs, see "Sizing Storage
for Your VM" on page 30.
• LUNs that store virtual machine data should reside on a fault tolerant
RAID group.
• Each virtual machine should have its own unique set of LUNs that
contain the virtual machine files and virtual machine hard drives.
3 Provide virtual machines with the provisioned storage as either
passthrough disks or format the disks and place VHDs on the formatted
partition (see "Appendix B: Preparing Storage for Your VMs" on page 40).
Dell PowerVault MD3000i
The PowerVault MD3000i is a modular disk storage array capable of
supporting up to sixteen highly available hosts. The MD3000i can contain up
to fifteen 3.5-inch SAS or SATA disk drives in a single 3U rack enclosure and
is expandable by adding up to two additional expansion enclosures for a total
of 45 drives. The entire array subsystem is managed from the Modular Disk
Storage Manager (MDSM), a single software application that streamlines the
management and maintenance of storage as it scales.
Figure 9. Dell PowerVault MD3000i