Hello everyone-
I would like to get you your opinions on the best practice for the File Server vmdk setup.
C drive partition would allocated for the OS, while E, F ... partitions for Data storage.
setup 1:
vmdk1 = thick provisioned disk hosting C drive partition
vmdk2 = thick provisioned disk hosting E, F..... partitions
Setup 2
vmdk1 = thick provisioned disk hosting C partition
vmdk2 = thick provisioned disk hosting E partition
vmdk3 = thick provisioned disk hosting F partition
.......
Also the multiple Data partitions would be configured as Independent + Persistent virtual disks due to the snapshots. My logic behind is that OS (C drive) is used for snapshots when testing a new software for example while Data partitions act as storage disks that need to keep most current files regardless of reverting to an older snapshot. BTW data partitions are for regular word, excel, pics and so on.
i also realize that i could have a single Data partition ex. E: with multiple shared folders but since each folder is for a different department it might cause more trouble when growing the space in the future. Large vmdk might take more time to expand. Again not sure.
thank you