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Question about volumes best practice
Hello,
ReadyNAS 2100, latest firmware, RAID10. I am using it for regular old Windows file sharing and for iSCSI for Xenservers virtual machines. Is it best to:
1. keep these two services on separate volumes - iSCSI on Volume C and regular network shares on volume D; or,
2. have one volume and just do both services on it?
Any pros/cons for disk space management? Any pros/cons for file access speed for the shares or the iSCSI LUNs?
Are there best practices published somewhere?
Thanks.
ReadyNAS 2100, latest firmware, RAID10. I am using it for regular old Windows file sharing and for iSCSI for Xenservers virtual machines. Is it best to:
1. keep these two services on separate volumes - iSCSI on Volume C and regular network shares on volume D; or,
2. have one volume and just do both services on it?
Any pros/cons for disk space management? Any pros/cons for file access speed for the shares or the iSCSI LUNs?
Are there best practices published somewhere?
Thanks.
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- I don't believe that multiple volumes offers any significant advantage.
Certainly there would be no performance improvement given that ReadyNAS devices are fully capable of saturating GbE connections however they are configured. Having different volumes of varying sizes typically means more work as you figure what data to allocate to which volume; or wasted space as you reserve capacity for possible future expansion. Better to have a single volume where a share or LUN can take as much (or as little) space as is required rather than be restricted due to multiple smaller volumes - Good to know, thanks
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