Is there any benefit that justifies separating the os, mdf, ldf and tempdb onto separate volumes?
RAID and redundancy is already included.
Connection options to the host are:
- 16 x 16/8/4 Gb Fibre Channel
- 8 x 10 Gb Fibre Channel over Ethernet (FCoE); and
- 8 x 10 Gb iSCSI
...so I don't think there is a concern with that being a bottleneck.
The FlashSystem datasheet is here: