Hello,
My organization is currently running Symantec Messaging Gateway on an ESXi hypervisor. We are wanting to upgrade the hardware to a new Dell PowerEdge T130 server so we can utilize a RAID array for redundancy. Are there any recommendations for which RAID level to use? I am leaning towards either a RAID 5 or RAID 10 configuration. The PowerEdge has 4 available drive bays so we will have a maximum of 4 drives total. We only have around 60 employees so the Symantec Messaging Gateway usually doesn't have an extremely heavy load.
Currently, our Symantec Messaging Gateway is running on ESXi with a single disc, and it runs well, but our main goal is to have some kind of disc redundancy in the instance a drive fails. As long as whatever RAID array we use has better performance than a single disc then we should be fine. Would a RAID 5 or 10 be best for this scenario?
Any recommendations are appreciated!
Thanks