We're upgrading our servers from the traditional physical file server to virtual servers, our decision to go with Vmware ESXi rather than MS Hyper-V.
Current Environment:
1- One DC server with all business apps installed on it ERP & users backup/sync files, shares, etc.
2- Two virtual servers running on seperate old NAS device (one running MS-SQL with some apps, and the other server for LAB)
New Environment:
I've been advised to setup the new environment & HW as follows due to the limited budget:
-One rack-server with high specs with:
--2 x 300GB SAS HDDs, configured on RAID-1 -as datastore1- used to install all 3 VMs on them only
--4 x 1TB SAS HDDs, configured on RAID-10 -as datastore2- used for SQL-DB, apps, users backup/sync data, users share
We bought all HW and I setup one VM as DC running windows server 2019 Std, another VM with SQL 2019 and windows server 2019 OS, all on datastore1.
My questions now:
1- is this setup scenario correct, specially for the HDDs, RAID types and isolating the VMs OS from the apps and data?
2- I couldn't install the SQL [data] folder on datastore2 (RAID-10), because I couldn't connect to datastore2 since the SQL VM on datastore1, so I kept it on the same datastore1, but this will be problem with the DB increase, so how to move the [data] folder to datastore2?
3- Noticed now problem with datastore1, no more space available while I should have 100GB free not used, because 2 VMs created and each one 100GB!
Can anyone advise me with this please?
Thanks in advance