ESXi 5 - Dell R610 Disk Layout

Hi,

Just after a bit of quick advice...

I've got a Dell R610 with 2 x 146Gb disks and 4 x 600Gb disks.

My inclination was to set up 1 x RAID1 on the 2 x 146Gb and 1 x RAID5 on the 4 x 600Gb disks.

My colleague said it might be better to set up 3 x RAID1 with the 3 pairs of disks?

Also, is there any benefit these days with splitting the volumes i.e. virtual guest OS / virtual guest page file / splitting the virtual disks onto seperate RAID LUNS on the virtual host?

Hope someone can shed some light...

Regards,

Dave.