There's one thread here discussing VMWare, so it doesn't appear that virtualization is that big of a topic. I'm curious, though, if anyone is using SANs for their disk storage, even if your Progress box is physical.
I've always been told that you should have your BI, AI, and DB on separate physical disks. This worked fine in the physical world; I've currently got a BI mirror, an AI mirror, and a DB RAID 10 array. I've even got the DB on a separate disk controller from everything else.
So far, when I've been playing with virtual progress boxes (our Test SX server is now a virtual server), I've been following the same model with virtual disks. But the disks are really just connections to one SAN (with one large RAID 5 array on the physical disks--I know, let's not get into the RAID 5 discussion), so there's really no point. There's no additional redundancy or speed.
Someday I want to see us running everything virtualized, with storage on a SAN rather than physical storage on servers. But to maintain that same recommended configuration, I'd have to have physical disks in their own arrays on the SAN dedicated to BI, AI, and DB--at which point there's no reason to have them in the SAN, when I could connect them directly just as easily. Dedicating physical disks on a SAN pretty much removes all of the benefits.
So I'm curious if anyone is using a SAN for their Progress storage, and, if so, how are you setup?
I've always been told that you should have your BI, AI, and DB on separate physical disks. This worked fine in the physical world; I've currently got a BI mirror, an AI mirror, and a DB RAID 10 array. I've even got the DB on a separate disk controller from everything else.
So far, when I've been playing with virtual progress boxes (our Test SX server is now a virtual server), I've been following the same model with virtual disks. But the disks are really just connections to one SAN (with one large RAID 5 array on the physical disks--I know, let's not get into the RAID 5 discussion), so there's really no point. There's no additional redundancy or speed.
Someday I want to see us running everything virtualized, with storage on a SAN rather than physical storage on servers. But to maintain that same recommended configuration, I'd have to have physical disks in their own arrays on the SAN dedicated to BI, AI, and DB--at which point there's no reason to have them in the SAN, when I could connect them directly just as easily. Dedicating physical disks on a SAN pretty much removes all of the benefits.
So I'm curious if anyone is using a SAN for their Progress storage, and, if so, how are you setup?