Users Guide

Storage Solutions Guide 25

NOTE: Follow the steps for Windows Server 2008 within the documentation.

The configuration and software installation detailed in the guide should be

carried out in the parent partition.

Best practices during configuration:

• 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.

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).

Fibre Channel Arrays

Dell|EMC CLARiiON Arrays

The Dell|EMC CLARiiON series of arrays provides high performance,

availability, and advanced management features. In addition, the latest

generation CX3 and CX4 series supports both iSCSI and FC connectivity on

one array.