Re: Some sympathy -but not a lot
Replacing a mirrored SSD doesn't affect performance very much in testing. Losing a RAID system and having to restore from backup can annoy users a lot more. If you have a redundant system then you can switch your VMs over to your other systems while you run the disk replacement.
In any case you are only looking to switch the drives out every 18~30 months (depending on MTBF/2). If it allowed you to buy SSDs whereas previously you would have had Hard Drives instead then the speed increase will be major anyway and the volume during a RAID Mirror rebuild would be faster than the normal operation of non-SSDs in a VM environment anyway.
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