All -
When building a VMWare server to host 5-10 guests what is the best practice for the disk subsystem configuration? Currently the VMWare server has one RAID5 volume hosting the VMWare Server OS and separate partitions for each VM Guest. I have seen a large number of disk timeout issues on the guests during backup operations or other heavy I/O. Can someone provide suggestions on how to configure the subsystem? Also, is there a rule of thumb for which types of systems would NOT be good candidates for being a VM Guest with regard to the disk I/O needs?
Thanks!
Megan