Hello,
I know that in VMware VSAN I don't need to use Hardware Raid to have a VSAN share Drives, The hard drives on the servers can be independent, no RAID using the hardware SCSI controller, the VSAN will take care of the redundancy.
but now I'm setting up a fail over cluster using 3 Windows server 2019 standard edition to use for fileserver and HyperV high availability.
My question is: Do I need to use the hardware RAID 0 or 5 using a SCSI controller, then setup the Virtual disk using iSCSI target ? or the iSCSI target will take care of the redundancy?
Current scenario:
I have 3 servers with 4 x 2 TB sata, I'm using now RAID 5 that give me only 5.5 TB instead of 8 TB, on top of that I created the iSCSI target and a virtual hard drive, since I have 2 nodes then the virtual hard drive size is 11 TB. but I'm wondering if I use only the iSCSI and no hardware raid then I can use the full hard drive capacity and still have redundancy.
I hope my question is clear :) lol
Thanks