Raid recommendations

[gmonk]

In regards to setup with starwinds is it still recommended to seperate the host os to its own partition ? And does it really matter if you setup a 8 disk raid 10 and partition it out into C & D drive or is it more recommended to create to seperate raid groups say one array with 6 disks and a seperate array with the remaining two for the os (* all running on single raid controller)

[Sergey (staff)]

There are two data separation approaches with StarWind Virtual SAN. One is to keep both OS and StarWind device images on one physical volume, but segregate those using partitions. The second option is to segregate the OS to a dedicated disk/RAID1 array. Both options are supported.