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<p>I have a question regarding disk preparation.</p>
<p>I have 4 nodes, each has 24 SSD, i would like to know whats the best practice to setup the disks.</p>
<p>The pool will be used as a vmware datastore.</p>
<p>im planning on using each disk as a brick without lvm, pool will be distributed replicas with sharding enabled, do you have any comments on this setup ? because i dont know if i should use all disks as one big disk with RAID and disable sharding, or use
each disk as a brick with sharding enabled.</p>
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<p>also, Redhat website stated that i have to use LVM, but i couldn't get an answer on why i should use LVM or why i should't.</p>
<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">"</span><span style="font-size: 12pt;">You should not create Red Hat Storage volume bricks using raw disks. Bricks must be created on thin-provisioned Logical Volumes (LVs)"</span><br>
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<p><a href="https://access.redhat.com/articles/1273933" class="OWAAutoLink" id="LPlnk971471" previewremoved="true">https://access.redhat.com/articles/1273933</a></p>
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<p>Thank you.</p>
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