# SAN Storage Elastic Search

**URL:** <https://discuss.elastic.co/t/san-storage-elastic-search/182681>\
**Category:** Elasticsearch\
**Created:** [May 24, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/san-storage-elastic-search/182681 "2019-05-24T15:04:00Z")\
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**Author:** ![little1alien](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/ccd318/32.png) [@little1alien](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/little1alien)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 3:04pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/san-storage-elastic-search/182681/1 "2019-05-24T15:04:00Z")

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Hi All

In the process of installing a ES setup but want to see what the current opinion on SAN storage is?

We have been looking at creating a cluster of 3 nodes with about 2x 12cores, 64GB Ram, and about 2TB of disk ( SSD/ NVMe), - well that's what we have been recommended if it is a Physical Linux server.

My question is the rest of the environment is running on a VMware host cluster with a Compellent SAN on 8G FC.

The SAN consists of 20TB SSD ( 1.92TB disks ) and 122TB 7.2K ( 8TB disks) in the SAN -

Being a Compellent it has auto tier-ing etc but the idea would be to Pin the ES servers to the SSD Tier.

Are we likely to see any major problems ?  
as we see that the recommendations seem to be a physical server with direct attached disk.

Many thanks

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**Author:** ![warkolm](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/user_avatar/discuss.elastic.co/warkolm/32/39224_2.png) [@warkolm](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/warkolm)\
**Post date:** [May 24, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/san-storage-elastic-search/182681/2 "2019-05-24T16:41:45Z")

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It should work. I've used SAN storage for Elasticsearch in a past life and it was ok.

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**Author:** ![system](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/elastic/original/3X/1/a/1ac57faf039f6b580b3f104ef42a2a89e41014de.png) [@system](https://discuss.elastic.co/u/system)\
**Post date:** [June 21, 2019, 4:41pm UTC](https://discuss.elastic.co/t/san-storage-elastic-search/182681/3 "2019-06-21T16:41:48Z")

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