Re: Booting from SAN or local?
- From: "Russ Kaufmann [MVP]" <russ@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 10:29:57 -0600
"Shane" <Shane@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:5C85DCB4-77B4-424D-B7E6-78D3F844805C@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Hi,
>
> We currently have 3 2-node clusters connected via a fibre switch to our
> SAN.
> Our boot disks also boot the server from the SAN.
>
> My question to the group is: What is the preferred method of booting. My
> opinion is it would be local with a mirrored disk seeing as booting up off
> the SAN is really slow.
The cost of internal disks is considerably cheaper than the cost of SAN
disks, too, so I agree.
I would use a mirrored disk set for the operating system and a single small
disk (no need for redundancy) for the pagefile.
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