Dell PowerEdge RAID Controller Cards

Hi All,

Does anyone have experience and best practice recommendations for configuring a PERC H700 controller in an ESXi host?

http://www.dell.com/downloads/global/products/pvaul/en/perc-technical-guidebook.pdf

I am interested in the advanced settings (this is what I am using at the moment);

I have two requirements;

1. Use SSD's as local storage to align disks - fast crunching, with redundancy
2. ESXi host swap cache

For the first option, I am going to migrate VM's onto the local datastore, align the partitions using vOptimizer Pro and then move them back to NFS / SAN storage.

Once I have finished aligning disk, I am going to re-configure the SSD's for host cache.

Any pointers appreciated.

Thanks,

Jon