That's the current system. I am getting rid of that; I have a datastore on that drive as well as the 500GB RAID. But thanks for reading my OP. Please read it back over and answer... Sorry to be a dick but I hate it when people don't actually read what I wrote. Since you didn't quote any of it I'm including it here for your reading pleasure: > I have a Dell server rebranded by CSC's FTL group that is currently running 4x250G drives. > > I want to replace each of those 250G drives with 2TB drives which should last us a while until the big corporation in the sky sees fit to either purchase us a NAS or SAN (which we are operating under the presumption will never happen). > > So I have 4 bays. the first 250GB presently is the install drive for the VM software. The other three are running a RAID5 to give me a stable 500GB of storage... > > I'm looking for options here on what to do for my splitting or should I use the whole thing? > > TIA, > Ryan On Apr 30, 2012, at 10:40 PM, Andrew S. Zbikowski wrote: > Do you really need 250 GB for the VM Hypervisor? VMWare ESX will boot > off a USB flash drive. If you're using Linux KVM you would ideally > want to have a minimalistic install anyway. A good Linux console only > live distro doesn't even fill a single 700 MB CD. Unless you're doing > something else on your VM host I would give it a small system > partition. Limited space keeps temptation at bay. > > Personally I like things as simple as possible and would most likely > just do one big volume. If you wanted to future proof the installation > you could setup LVM so you can easily add disks/storage to your server > down the road (via external array, JBOD enclosure, NAS, SAN, > whatever), but my experience has been that we end up justifying the > new servers and storage and end up doing new installs on the new > hardware anyway, so the benefits of LVM don't end up justifying the > extra complexity. YMMV of course. > > -- > Andrew S. Zbikowski | http://andy.zibnet.us > IT Outhouse Blog Thing | http://www.itouthouse.com > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list